All you can eat
Published 11:17 pm Friday, May 15, 2009
Rick Steves reports on a great travel bargain in otherwise pricey Scandinavia: cruise ships that ply the Stockholm-to-Helsinki run.
Is there a catch? Well, for one, booze aboard the ships is tax- and duty-free, which means a lot of drunk people. Sounds like a WSU alumni cruise.
And remember: You may be at sea, but you’re still in Scandinavia. If you don’t like meatballs and boiled fish, you may starve.
Something evil’s lurking in the dark: College students in Virginia have won a world record for staging the largest-ever group dance to Michael Jackson’s 1983 horror movie spoof “Thriller.”
According to unconfirmed reports, one of the 242 dancers was Jackson himself. The King of Pop went unrecognized by fellow dancers, who assumed he was just another student wearing zombie makeup.
Hole in the water: The Everett Sail and Power Squadron will conduct vessel safety checks today and Sunday.
The free safety checks will be a rare respite for boat owners’ bank accounts, which are exhausted and battered after a series of costly repairs to nearly everything aboard.
