I was just saying that on our cruise (Bahamas/St. Thomas/ St. Maarten) the best food - by far - was on St. Maarten. Something about being European, we joked.

Ok. Still uploading, but I love this picture of Ellie: [link]

When I came in this morning, I discovered I had lost my normal radio staion setting on my clock radio here. This can happen if it gets bumped or if it is just "in a mood". Anyway, I fiddled the dial to something rock-ish and got to work. Well, apparently it is not my normal station. I am currently being encouraged to "Shake, shake shake. Shake, shake, shake. Shake your booty".

Oh, and Royal Caribbean cruises are very good for vegetarians. I generally had lunch in the buffet and dinner in the sit-down dining room, and only once had to get the pasta and tomato sauce option. (That was the night when the vegetarian option was quiche, and I don't eat eggs.) I met all the British passengers at the beans and tomatoes section of the breakfast buffet. (Why haven't beans and tomatoes at breakfast caught on in the States? It's really yum.)

The last couple times I went on cruises my only big complaint with the vegetarian menu was that the soups all had a chicken stock base. My companions didn't get why I could instantly tell. Um, greasy. It has been about 7 years so perhaps they have improved. Although clearly they have the same band playing.

OK, I'm pissed.

I'd cc'ed an incoming student on a message where I was forwarding some scheduling concerns of his to the instructors, as a way of assuring him I'd passed them along promptly.

They didn't notice and started doing "reply all" and saying things that weren't appropriate to discuss in front of him, as it were. And somehow this is MY fault for cc'ing him and not theirs for not paying attention to the headers. I just got a lecture on how in the future I shouldn't cc, but should instead forward a copy or whatever. Which would be FINE if it had been in a tone of "because we'll mess up again" instead of "you screwed up."

Grr.

Trip pictures are here: [link]

Puerto Rico pictures start here: [link]

Why haven't beans and tomatoes at breakfast caught on in the States? It's really yum.

God, I love that standard British breakfast. Minus the eggs, because I hate them, but beans, tomatoes (grilled or not), bacon, some sort of breadstuff...

Now I want to go down to one of the English places near the beach and order it.

The last couple times I went on cruises my only big complaint with the vegetarian menu was that the soups all had a chicken stock base.

At the buffet, the soups usually had meat stock base (or there were a few vegetarian ones that just didn't appeal), but at the sit-down dinner, the menu was labeled to note which things were vegetarian, and there were always at least two vegetarian appetizers and one vegetarian entree. And they got fairly creative with the entrees, too -- I had vegetarian chili, tofu and veggies with Thai curry, some Indian vegetable thing, fancified eggplant parmesan, and a bunch of other things I can't remember right now.

God, I love that standard British breakfast. Minus the eggs, because I hate them, but beans, tomatoes (grilled or not), bacon, some sort of breadstuff...

I've finally found a place nearby that stocks Heinz Vegetarian Beans. Beans, toast, tomatoes, and some sort of potato thing makes my perfect breakfast. Maybe mushrooms too, but I can take or leave them.