While the lazy boat down the forest-lined river was the highlight, we did manage to fit in a lot more besides - a day riding horses across the plains and a night watching Harry catch baby alligators.
And besides getting a day off for the union's founder, they also get to take Bloody Thursday, commemorating the day during a 1934 strike when two longshoremen were killed in San Francisco.
Our ship had a Guy Fieri Hamburger stand, a deli with great Reuben and Corned Beef sandwiches, a fish and chips shop, a Mexican taco/burrito stand, unlimited ice cream and yogurt and a pretty fair pizza shop open 24 hours a day besides a couple of big, buffet restaurants with different and varied menu items every day.
I give it out 20 times a day, and besides, it's right there on my chest.
As Jerome K Jerome wondered back in 1889, towards the end of the supposedly hard-working Victorian era: "Is there any human being, I wonder, besides the hero of a Sunday-school 'tale for boys', who ever gets up willingly?" No, we are all slumberers.
Often exhilarating, but exhausting: more than 12 hours a day, and sweltering heat besides.
He says 11 people besides himself cut from the 95,000 rosebushes twice a day.
For the spleen, no obvious difference was seen between the 1-, 4- and 7-day measurements besides a small increase from day 1 to day 4 that resolved at day 7.
Voting has a holiday besides Election Day.
It was a thrilling day -- besides having a laugh with Levi (he's a sweet guy) I also tweeted about the day, and CNN kept running my tweets on the news scroll -- it had the exact effect I had intended.
But then that was just one small element in a surrealistic day and, besides, he was having a cup of tea in the prison with his family.
