Most of the time I blog about dining, but of course this week is bringing out the superfluous blogger in everyone. So, let me tell you about the best vacation I ever went on. The year was 2000. The occasion was my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary. The Trip.... A Norwegian Cruise Line trip around the Caribbean. Let me explain something about cruises; they are totally amazing. This particular cruise I was one had 12 different servings of food per day including a midnight buffet. For my devoted readers you know I love food. For people that see me in person you know i love food. Any place serving a midnight buffet is like my utopia. Anyway, lets start from the top.

We flew to Miami and left from there. Miami is an interesting city. I was there three years later for a four night run of Phish over new years eve, and I noticed something. Nobody speaks English. I mean seriously, I asked the hotdog cart guy for some ketchup and he looked at me like I was on drugs, and I wasn't. I had to be like "Rojo... Rojo" which means red in Spanish. Anyway, we left from Miami, and instantly i loved it. We had a standard room. I think it was below the water, but I'm not sure. It was me and my two cousins, in a room with no windows. It was amazingly comfortable. Still to this day the best sleep I ever had because it was pitch black. I would wake up thinking it was ten in the morning, and it would be like 2:30. Lets move on.

Every night we would meet in the main dining room for dinner. Each table had their very own waiter who only had to serve your table. I think our guys name was Raul... he for sure was from Colombia. It was cool. All the staff was from different countries which were highlighted on their name-tags. Moving on.....

My mom is the type of person who would need a Dramamine I.V., but she was fine pretty much the whole trip. She of course was happy to go ashore at all the islands we stopped at, but didn't really get sea sick at all. The ship was so big you couldn't really tell you were on the ocean. We stopped at St. Martin, St Thomas, and another St. I cant remember. I got a deck of naked playing cards at St. Thomas and that was pretty sweet, although the pictures were from the 80s, so some of the "hair-dos" were a little much for me, but what do I care.

All-in-all I highly recommend going on a cruise. Ever since I went on this one I have been trying to go on another one. You get pampered and you don't have to do anything. It is like being on a floating resort that plans your visits for you. If you have the chance go on a cruise.