Walk Down Memory Lane
This afternoon was I was going through my recipe box and came across a list of questions that the passengers used to ask me. David Letterman has his top 10 list that he gives every night, and I had my top 9 list that I used to give every week with my disembarkation talk. For those of you who have never been on a cruise ship before, a disembarkation talk is a presentation given by the Cruise Director to help the passengers, now called guests, to transition from ship to shore on the last day of the cruise. It was also presented in order to drive our ratings ... reminding guests that while we couldn't control the motion of the ocean or the weather in port, what we did have control over was the quality of their cruise vacation. I used 9 questions because our ratings went as high as a 9 - we figured there was no such thing as a 10 in the world. Apparently the person who decided that hadn't spent any time staring at George Clooney on the big screen or saw Daniel Craig exit the