Two nights ago we were barely able to see the North Star on the horizon and at about 8:30 last night the ship crossed the equator to much fanfare. We all filled the decks and waited for the ship to sound the horn signaling we just crossed into the southern hemisphere, at which point everyone cheered like it was new years. In celebration, today we don’t have classes during a festival called Neptune day, the purpose of which is to please the sea god Neptune.
We were awoken at about 7:30 this morning to a procession of crewmen dressed up like Roman legionnaires walking through the hallways blaring horns and banging on drums. Basically to satisfy Neptune one must get drenched in fish guts and then have their head shaven: I of course did both. I was among the first to have some sick fish oil concoction poured all over my head (Amanda got it on video). Tons of people then got their heads shaven including a quite a few girls. Two lucky raffle winners even got to lose all their hair at the hands of the captain himself.
I haven’t had this little hair since I first grew hair.
Once all the festivities were complete the fun was far from over. As the crew was cleaning the deck someone realized that the soapy deck turned into a perfect slip-n-slide and within a few seconds everyone made a giant circle and people would get running starts to slide on their stomachs from one side to the other. Once the ships officers got wind of this they quickly stepped in and then drained the pool for the day as punishment. O well, today was sweet!
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