You may have heard about the recent fire on Carnival Cruise Line's largest ship, Splendor, which resulted in a loss of electricity and civilized living conditions on board.
While the nearly 4500 passengers and crew members made the best of things, some took the crisis harder than others.
Gourmands, for instance.
Residents of Haiti, for example, who probably wouldn't have minded an airdrop of mini croissants and Spam.
But the group who had the hardest time of all were bloggers, Tweeters and others with various internet addictions. For those people, two days without a cell signal or an on-line connection became one of Dante's nine circles of Hell.
On the other hand, none of the honeymoon couples had any idea that any crisis had occurred and were quite surprised to find that the ship had been towed into San Diego this morning.
(Original photo stolen from these guys; all other photos stolen from Kansas City Star)
We're happy you're all home safe. A tip of the hat to the Mexican tug boats and to the U.S. Navy.
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I heard they added insult to injury when they finally disembarked - it took hours to get the luggage off, owing to the lack of escalators and elevators.
What a nightmare!
I love your captions.
Posted by: Meg | November 15, 2010 at 07:10 AM
SEE?! You are EXACTLY the person Im talking about! (and me, too) who would need to be locked in a rubber room on that ship. The food? No problem -- I could live on PopTarts. Its the NO INTERNET situation that would kill us. : ) Thanks for reading, Debbie!
Laurie
Posted by: foolery | November 12, 2010 at 09:19 AM
Not sure who I'm laughing at more...you or Bob! I happen to like Spam but it wouldn't matter. Would be curled up in a withdrawal bawl because my crops were dying in Frontierville!
Posted by: Debbie | November 12, 2010 at 04:14 AM
HA! Ba-dump-bump. ; )
Posted by: foolery | November 11, 2010 at 06:53 PM
I told a guy at cardio today that, if I went on a cruise and this happened, and they gave my money back and gave me another cruise free, I'd take'em up in a heartbeat. He said he had been on a cruise where he ate Spam and Pop-Tarts, and they offered him another one for free.
But he wouldn't re-enlist....
Posted by: boB Cleveland | November 11, 2010 at 06:20 PM