I’ve read that a cruise ship uses on average 600 pounds of butter per day, 250,000 eggs per week, and 170,000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables per cruise. I've eaten my fair share of this on the Rock and Romance Cruise.
I, like so many other passengers, enjoy piling up a breakfast or lunch plate with a motley assortment of items. I just wish the serving spoons were slightly bigger for those garbanzo beans! Yes, I confess I was the one holding up the salad bar line and dropping beans on the floor on the last cruise. But my pleasure comes from much more than creating a seven-layer dip of roast beef, pizza, pasta, salad, lunch meat, cheese cubes, and dinner rolls.
For me, the buffet meal means an opportunity to check out the cool concert shirts everyone is wearing, having an unexpected conversation with someone sitting at the next table over, and, of course, the random celebrity sighting.
On the inaugural cruise, I had a delightfully random conversation with a member of Christopher Cross’s band. We talked about our kids and learning music in school. Where else would I have had this conversation that I still think fondly back upon to this day? I’ve seen Randy Bachman grab an ice cream cone. And I really felt like a cool kid when Kasim Sulton, from Todd Rundgren’s band stopped by our table to say hello to our friends, Rick and Patty.
I also just love grabbing a table and sharing a meal with friends we’ve met on board, just to talk about the previous night’s concert or a music-related memory. It’s these moments that whisk you completely away from your day-to-day life and into a place of truly living in the moment.
In other words, I’ll be there with my plate in hand for the next cruise. …Hope to see you there!
Song of the Day: Breakfast in America - Supertramp
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