Friday, the ship was due to leave port right around lunch. I slept through it, as by the time Bob and I went up to the restaurant to have some lunch, we were on our way back to Boston. <\/p>\n
After a burger and some other stuff, we went back to the cabin to hang out, and ended up playing Game Boy and reading for pretty much the whole afternoon. Not much to say about that, except I was ridiculously amused by the fact that while I was playing Monopoly as the dog, named Sirius, (against Arthur), he kept getting sent to jail almost every turn.<\/p>\n
Dinner was good, pasta again, with a red chili marinara sauce that was really tasty. And, unlike some of the meat dishes, you got a large helping of the pasta, so I felt satisfied at the end of it. Though not so satisfied that I couldn’t help Bob split a plate of beef stroganoff, too. That was also good, though weird, because it was garnished with beet shreds and a dill pickle. (Seriously. A dill pickle?)<\/p>\n
We returned to the cabin and resumed our Game Boy playing, though as Carl did not have one of his own, he was sort of at loose ends for a while, until he turned on the TV and we found that they were showing the Producers movie (the new one), and we all stopped what we were doing to watch it.<\/p>\n
That night was the Chocoholic Buffet, about the only midnight buffet offered on this particular cruise. We were all looking forward to it, though we had a minor disagreement — the boys felt that they should go up and eat some pizza before it started, while E and I felt that eating before it was a ridiculous notion and would only make it impossible to take full advantage of the buffet itself. As it turned out, the movie ended around 11:15 and they didn’t have time to make their pizza experiment, but it was a strange discussion nevertheless.<\/p>\n
We went up to stand in line after that, and found that people were already being let in. We had no objections, and trotted right on with the rest of them. The plates were very small, and I ended up piling mine about 3 layers thick by the time I was done with the row of food. We secured ourselves a table and gorged ourselves on what we’d selected. The mousse was excellent, and was a component of several of the things I’d got, of which I heartily approve. After a glass of milk (which order strangely surprised our waitress) we left, having eaten too much, but happy — at least I was.<\/p>\n
It was after midnight by then, so there was not much to do but go to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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