There was a cruise ship Mutiny on the Bounty via Twitter reported on the Weather Network on the weekend. The ship had missed its fifth scheduled port of call in a two-week vacation to Iceland, Amsterdam, Norway and Ireland due to bad weather.
This would be a scenario from hell. Passengers board the cruise ship with the expectation of luxury and pampering that they consider they've paid for, and end up roughing it with the toilets out of order and confined to a floating hotel with few or no stops. The staged protests with signs that said "Refund! Refund! Refund!"
There have been far worse cruise ship experiences. Perhaps the passenger twitter reports made this one distinct, along with the organized protests and angry confrontations sent out via twitter regularly.
Guinness Book of Records doesn't have records for the worst vacations or cruise ship incidents. It has the worst roads, longest journey by car, barefoot, wheelchair, all the continents, skateboard journeys, and so on. The usual strange variations on travel.
To find out the worst cruise ship experiences/incidents, we go to one of the sensationalist articles - a good example is HERE.
Today's picture is a close-up of a carved wooden sculpture in the RBG gardens.
What If our food was art - and then we ate it? Would you eat something that looked like this? It doesn't look likely that it can be preserved, but who would break apart the globe for a watermelon snack?
These would be examples of the kinds of entries in the IKA Culinary Olympics. There are more HERE in the enroute magazine article. This is a popular Asian tradition. There are many fruits that can be used in this process; the most popular that artists use are watermelons, apples, strawberries, pineapples, and cantaloupes. In the vegetable realm, there are carrots, zucchini, and cucumbers. You can find a zucchini cactus rose, a carrot candle, a banana daschund, blueberry penguins, and so on.
So a scenario came to me - carving onions. Wouldn't this be for the sturdiest and fastest of carvers. The tears would get in the way of the result. Look at the results - red onions are carved to look like lotus flowers.
These onions start to take on a life of their own - so here's their joke of the day:
One day two onions, who were best friends, were walking together down the street. They stepped off the curb and a speeding car came around the corner and ran one of them over.
The uninjured onion called 911 and helped his injured friend as best he was able. The injured onion was taken to emergency at the hospital and rushed into surgery.
After a long and agonizing wait, the doctor finally appeared. He told the uninjured onion, "I have good news, and I have bad news. The good news is that your friend is going to pull through. The bad news is that he's going to be a vegetable for the rest of his life".
Here's an ornamental allium/onion for today's image.
