Crossing the Equator Ceremony - Sea Day – January 27

We continued on our South-Southwesterly course and we crossed the equator Just before dinner. So, this morning we had a Crossing the Equator Ceremony. We have crossed the equator quite a few times on a ship, so we are Shellbacks. Anyone who has never crossed the equator on a ship is called a Pollywog. It’s usually a fun messy ceremony. They all are a bit different and are fun to watch.

From the Princess Patter:

“Be it now proclaimed by the call of the Conch and Nautilus throughout the latitudes and longitudes of our Ocean Domain that I, Neptune Ruler of the Seven Seas King of the Secret Currents Lord of the Boundless Waves Master of the Tides High Constable of the Coral Caverns and Outermost Recesses of the Deep do hereby sanction and affirm that our most noble Crossing of the Equator has fallen upon us.”

The Pollywogs will be brought before King Neptune and his Royal Court.

Cruise Director Frank introducing King Neptune & his court

 The pollywogs are taken to be judged

 

 

 Secretary taking notes

 

 a telegraph is delivered

 

 his punishment is to have the secretary put a bottle down his pants and fill it with water from a cup

 this couple is charged with being lewd in public places, looks like they are guilty as charged

 Captain is pushed into the pool

 Frank the cruise director being pushed into the pool

 The real captain of the Pacific Princess with his wife and child were there to watch

 our crossing the equator certificates

 Kiss the fish to get your certificate

Picasa is not working to upload photos, so there are no new ones on the web albums. Hope it gets fixed, or doing the photos will be difficult. I added a few here, but there were lots of great shots of the ceremony.

We didn’t play Bingo today as it was right after lunch due to the Equator Ceremony and we didn’t get out of lunch in time. We don’t normally play every day anyway.

There was a Pub Lunch option again today, but we skipped it to eat in the main dining room. Sat with one couple we had met before and we met a new couple.

We had dinner in the dining room and the show tonight was instrumentalist Dan Delgado, the trumpet player with an all new show. Then we watched the Pointless Gameshow.

Tonight we set our clocks back another hour! Love those longer days.

2 more sea days until Bora Bora!