Just got back from a weeklong cruise that left from New York and made all-too-short stops in Florida, Nassau and some wacky private island filled with crude shacks selling ten dollar Mai Tais that probably didn't have any alcohol in them. I'm too tired to do anything more than blurt out random goodnesses right now (Cuban cigars, flying fish, smuggled liquor), but hope to cull together an article detailing the ins and outs of fine quality cruising in the next week or so.
Oh, we picked an overpriced Disney World excursion for our Florida stop, which probably won't make the article because I already wrote 72,000 words about Disney World last year. But! Whereas Pirates of the Caribbean was closed for movie-related renovations last year, now it was open, and I finally got to ride it for the first time. Gotta be honest...it's really nothing special. I mean, I love all dark rides -- especially ones with a creepy slant filled with ugly animatronics and shadows and echoes -- but there was something hilarious about standing on an hour-long line filled with kids who adored the movies and who had every reason to expect something more than an enclosed space filled with decades-old pirate statues singing the "yo ho ho" song. At least they added a couple of Jack Sparrows and a pretty neat holographic Davy Jones waterfall.
While I really want to tell you about love bugs smashing against bus windows and the ten thousand hand sanitizing machines that littered the ship, it'll have to wait for the article. Happy SNT.
Posted by Matt on 06/02/2007. E-mail me!
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