Tonight Travalon and I went on a Caribbean cruise! (On Lake Monona.) As we were walking from the parking lot to the dock, we crossed the bike path, and a very strange thing passed in front of us. Travalon said it reminded him of a ride at the County Fair. My best guess is that it was a recumbent bike with a cover over it, but it looked like a little bullet train engine.
The captain of the boat (who was training a new captain) recognized us - that's one way to know you are going on too many cruises! But that's what happens when you will use any excuse to be on a boat, whether it is the Merrimac Ferry or the free ferry that goes from New Orleans to Point d'Algiers or your neighbor's sailboat. The weather was cool and a little drizzly, so everyone else stayed inside the boat, but Travalon and I sat out on the prow, enjoying the view. We saw a lot of sailboats, and some had their spinnakers up, but they were too far away to get a good picture. Here are some pictures that did turn out:
At first the music was not Caribbean, but then they started playing a mix of tropical music. The food was Caribbean too: curry potatoes, rice and beans, basa fingers, and mahi mahi with mango salsa. I swear when we signed up it said jerk chicken was on the menu too, but we didn't see that. For dessert there were macarons, which don't seem particularly Caribbean to me. I had a lemon one and a pistachio one. When we disembarked, we saw a rainbow!
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