Food, glorious food!

Yes, the food is free!  Well, most of it.  And yes, it’s good.  There are two main dining halls that serve three meals a day.  Breakfast is all out with fruit, yogurt, pastries, eggs (scrambled or omelet-style), sausage or bacon, “biscuits” and “gravy,” pancakes or French toast, cream of wheat or oatmeal, toast, bagels, etc.  Lunch and dinner usually include salad, some kind of pasta, some kind of meat, some kind of fish, some kind of ricey dish, sandwiches, etc.  Oh, and dessert.  Everything is made in-house and is delicious.

The Garden Lounge is the second largest of the dining facilities on the ship and is preferred by many of the faculty and staff because there is direct access to an outdoor deck.  There’s another dining hall on the 5^th deck.  There is also a snack bar on the pool deck that serves burgers, fries, smoothies and the like and a small coffee shop.  Glazer Lounge, on the 7^th deck, is reserved for just faculty and staff and is a welcome and often needed respite from the busy-ness of the rest of the ship.  One has to pay for food and beverages in the pool deck snack bar, the coffee shop, and Glazer Lounge, and since those items are simply charged to one’s room it’s easy to rack up a sizable bill in a short period of time.  Or so I’m told. :-)