Like many a cruise ship, the Disney Dream features nightly rotational dining where you and people you just met eat together at different restaurants each night. Most of the time you get paired up with travelers with whom you have nothing in common and the conversation never moves beyond polite chit-chat. But we got lucky on this voyage, having been paired up with four like-minded media types who were around our same ages. They were hilarious and entertaining and we couldn’t have asked for better eating companions. It made the dining experience much more enjoyable, to the point where we were the last patrons remaining in the first restaurant we ate at because our conversation just wouldn’t end.

I hope they don’t mind me posting their pictures here!