Special Dining with Special Blogging

 

Today’s blog marks the 100^th post here on Gulliverstavern.com.  It’s a special thing for me and I’m really glad I started writing again.  And it makes me really happy that people are actually reading it.

It’s was also a special evening because tonight my Student Life team got to go to special dining on the ship.  Special dining is a five-course meal and a giant step up from the usual pork, pasta and potatoes that we get for dinner.  We all got dressed up and were treated to a dinner that included soup, salad, appetizers, a juicy steak and one of the best pieces of chocolate cake I have ever had.  The chefs on the ship can do amazing things when they don’t have to cook for 800 people.  Really the food here is not that bad, it just gets repetitive. 

I did almost have an embarrassing moment during dinner when I received my baked scallop thermidor.  I wasn’t exactly sure what it was when I ordered it and when it was presented to me I thought it looked like a pierogi.  I was all set to pick it up and take a bite when I noticed others eating it with a fork.  I inspected it further and realized it was a scallop covered in sauce in a clam shell.  Good thing I checked around because I probably would have broken a tooth trying to eat the shell.  Even at fancy dining my Yinzer roots show.

Two of my favorite people Craig and Nicole

Sadly Kelly didn’t get to join us for dinner but she will get to come to the staff special dining next week.  Although I think I ate enough tonight for the two of us.  It’s been a challenge on the ship to keep from overeating and tonight definitely didn’t help.  I think I may have to go on a crash diet when I get home.  But only after I eat my fill of my Mom’s delicious cooking and some NC BBQ I’ve been craving.