We were invited to our friend’s house for dinner. These are the dear friends, Lori and Dave, who we recently reconnected with a few months ago. They had been on an Alaskan cruise and we were looking forward to hearing all about the trip.
I brought a simple appetizer of Medjool dates stuffed with Spanish chorizo sausage wrapped in bacon then pan cooked and served hot. How can anything with bacon not be good! It was sweet, spicy and salty. All the important food sensations in one small appetizer!
Lori is a great cook so the spaghetti sauce cooking on the stove most of the day was full of flavor and had a wonderful texture. The salad was a bonus and I even had a piece of bread!
After dinner, their son Joel dropped in and told hilarious stories about his experiences as a doorman at the Ritz. That guy can tell a good story. Dealing with the public is never easy.
Listening to their tales of the cruise, I so wish we could travel. I have such wanderlust. Cruises seems so different than when we traveled on the Sun Viking through the Caribbean in 1978. The food was superb and elegant with assigned seating. Now, it is so much more casual. We just are not casual people. If I were ever to be allowed on a cruise, we would choose a small, adult centered and expensive one. I don’t want casual. I want high quality rooms and food.
But, alas, we will probably never be allowed to cruise. The worry is the ventilation systems, the close proximity of a lot of people and the threat of the Norovirus. Three strikes. We’re out!
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