Hey, that work cruise I wrote about yesterday ended up not being so bad after all. My plan to drink away any suckiness wasn't even needed (well, I did have one, as a precaution). The plan wouldn't have lasted long anyway, at $7 plus tip per cocktail.
After the mile walk in 94 degree heat (I passed up a chance to take a work-provided shuttle because I thought the ship docked further up the river than it actually did), and the half-hour spent baking while waiting to go aboard, and the chinchy one-free "soft-drink" voucher, and the awful "entertainment" that consisted of karaoke-quality singers who would also point out interesting facts about coastline attractions (they seemed more concerned at remaining perky than actually getting their regional facts right - and large part of their audience was made up of people (us) who get all geeky about regional facts, so that went over well) - after all that, things went pretty well.
Surprisingly, the food wasn't half-bad, but the best part was when they finally let us out to go up on the deck. There was a good breeze and it was pretty cool to see things like the Naval Yard and the sports complex from such an unusual perspective. Like I said, we're geeky about things like that.
I also took a whole bunch of photos that I hope to clean up this weekend. For now, here's a shot I took of the promenade at Penn's Landing (yeah, the Delaware's brown around Philly - you got a problem wit that?):
And here's that second-place pint glass I one at Tuesday's race:
I'm still debating whether to use it as a glass or save it as a trophy.