Dinner Companions

I was perhaps vaguely aware that Naoyuki was an habitué of CruiseCritic.com but little did I realize that there were such great people there!

Jeffrey Kaufman (accompanied by his lovely wife, Jane), a music producer from Cliffside Park, New Jersey, put together an excellent table for our time aboard the Symphony. In addition to ourselves and the Kaufmans, our companions included Jean and Rob Foster of Bryan, Texas, owners of a company specializing in the creation and restoration of stained glass, and Len Paradise, a retired airline pilot, and his wife Raye, of Lakeland, Florida.

You never quite know how things are going to work out with dinner companions you’ve never met before but we all hit it off from the get-go and the more time spent together the better it seemed to get. The last night of the cruise we were once again just about the last group to leave the Crystal Dining Room, after yet another two-hour culinary extravaganza.

Various combinations of us came together on four of our at sea days to play Team Trivia under the moniker Whyarewehere – and won twice! Baseball caps for the first win, pen and pencil sets for the second, woo hoo!