Hi everyone - I just came back to tell you we had an amazing trip! Miami was great - we spent days on the beach/at the pool and nights walking up and down mid-beach and north beach. We had only one bad experience where a shopkeeper asked us to leave. She didn't come right out and say she didn't like how my child was presenting themselves, but it seemed like ie to us. Other than that, lots of smiles. The cruise was amazing. We stayed on ship at the Bahamas, but we got off in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic. We explored the countryside in DR, jumped off waterfalls, wet to a tobacco farm and ate at a local roadside restaurant - all with my kiddo being themselves. On the ship, my kids made tons of friends in the teen club and made lasting friendships with teens from Germany, Spain, Italy and Brazil. On Gala night, he glammed it up and wore an amazing white sequence shrug. No one made us feel unwelcome or unsafe. So thanks for your encouragement and I guess the best part of the trip for me was remembering that so many people are good hearted and have no malice towards strangers.