J: Cruisin' Solo

Well….apparently, since this cruise spans the Thanksgiving holiday, it’s the PERFECT one for families. This is obviously not the week for singles to be traveling. There are quite a few hot guys on this ship but inevitably, about 5 seconds after I’ve spotted one, the beautiful wife shows up or the darling kids run over and hang on his shirt tails…and another one is crossed off my list.

To increase my odds of meeting someone on this cruise, I’ve been attending the “Sailing Solo” meetings. Unfortunately, however, the average age of that crowd is approximately 55. Not good. Granted, there were about 3 guys who were closer to my age, but none of them were remotely interesting…even though each one of them, in their own awkward way tried hitting on me.

Well…I guess I should say, that was my experience up until yesterday when the guys from the dueling pianos act showed up at our singles event. All three of them were super cute…and musicians (remember how I feel about musicians?? Yum!) and, as piano players, aren’t they pretty much guaranteed to have magic fingers? ;)

So, the four of us sat around chatting over our drinks…and I obviously hit it off with one of them more than the others and before I had to leave to meet my parents for dinner, he made sure that I’d be going to at that evening’s big party. Which I was.

After dinner, we met up at the party and danced together and then took a walk together on the main deck and ended up making out on the smaller, sunbathing deck which was by this point in the evening completely deserted.

Nothing “real” is going to happen with this guy. He works on a cruise ship, and lives such a different life from me.

Plus, this would be uber-long distance…and I can’t handle “long distance” when the guy is just an hour away.

Plus, we're not exactly in the same place, emotionally either...he’s still a little messed up from a relationship of his own that recently went sour. (Wow...that seems to be happening a lot these days).

Plus, unfortunately, the guy really didn't get any of my jokes. There were a lot of "oh, that was a joke, right" comments from him. Uhhh...yeah.

But, there was chemistry. Definitely, there was chemistry...

And, this is a cruise ship...

And I’m on vacation...

So, tonight we’re meeting up after he’s done with his dueling pianos performance of the night and we’ll see where this thing goes.