Crossing the Equator! Sea Day 4

Today we will cross the equator for the first time! According to tradition and the Navy, you are a ‘pollywog’ until you cross. Afterwards you’re considered a ‘shellback’ and become Neptune’s comrade.

Of course we also played trivia and made origami butterflies. I helped a pair next to us who didn’t speak English and they called me ‘La Profesora’.

There was a contest for the women to see who’d be Queen but we could not see much. Neptune came out with his entourage and the dancers performed. We were baptized as Shellbacks via whipped cream…By Neptune and his queen.

After that we attended a lecture on sea birds, specifically the albatross and booby subspecies. {insert joke here} We retrieved our passports. On the way back to our cabin we saw a very ill omen. Not as bad as a dead albatross, but almost…The barf bags are already on the staircases….uh-oh.En savoir plus