(CNN) -- The disabled Carnival cruise ship that lost power at sea is docking in San Diego, California, on Thursday, aided by tugboats that are pushing it into place. The passengers -- all 3,300 of them -- will disembark with tales from the three-day ordeal that began with a fire in the ship's engine room. Engineers were unable to restore power to the ship after the fire was extinguished, leaving passengers without air conditioning, hot showers or decent meals. Instead, they had to settle for Spam and Pop-Tarts dropped off by the USS Ronald Reagan, which came to assist...Cahill said the crew has done the best it can in making the passengers comfortable, including offering free drinks.
Am I the only one who thinks this sounds awesome? Even without power, being stranded on a cruise ship sounds like a great time. Free booze, pop-tarts and spam, sounds like weekends in college except better because of the free alcohol (I'll admit I didn't eat spam in college, but I had a lot of bologna sandwiches, and lets be honest, we're just splitting hairs here if we're comparing spam to bologna). Plus you know everyone is hooking up all over the place, its a cruise without power, what else are they all going to do (I really hope it isn't one of those Single Senior Citizens cruises though, thats an awful mental image). So yea, the customers can spare me the high-falluting nonsense that they won't be taking Carnival up on their offer for a free cruise. These people probably just had the time of their lives and now they're trying to milk it for freebies. Cry me a river.
