Cruising Along

For anyone who's not familiar with cruising, I can imagine the top 3 impressions you could have about a Caribbean cruise: a lot of eating, a lot of drinking, and too much sun. Well, that's entirely possible, but it'd be mostly up to you. In reality, there's enough going on to keep you from doing any of those things.

Cruise ships have become small towns in the middle of the ocean. The one I'm on can hold around 4800 passengers. This doesn't count the crew, which can sometimes be as large as one for every two passengers. So what can a small town in the ocean offer? Here are a few things I've seen and done this week:

• Watched dolphins and flying fish swimming alongside the ship
• Rode a gondola 300 feet above sea level on a moving boat
• Saw a caberet show and a virtual concert
• Watched a robotic bartender make a cocktail
• Had a really good massage and facial at the spa
• Watched a larger man attempt the flying trapeze
• Saw part of Game 7 of the NBA finals on a giant screen on the pool deck
• Ate a lot
• Drank a little
• Got just enough sun

Even with all that, there were still a few things I didn't try, like the iFly skydiving simulator, or the Flowrider surfing simulator, or watch the Broadway show (I've seen We Will Rock You before), or eat at the Japanese restaurant. I was also pretty unsuccessful at bingo. But it was fun all the same.

So another cruise is coming to an end. One day to spend in NYC and it's back home again.

"I'm slowly drifting away, wave after wave, wave after wave"