February 21, 2013 Sea Day - Crossed International Dateline!

Well, today we woke up to drizzling rain. It remained overcast, but it stopped raining so we could get our walk in on deck. Lunch today was also good. Greg had clam chowder and fish taco made with Tilapia and I had fried mozzarella sticks, beef coppa and waldorf salad and potato latkes for the main course.

Still a bit soupy out, so not a good day to catch any rays so will catch up on the blog and pictures for the web albums site. (rained all day and the ship is rolling a bit tonight)

Today we crossed the international dateline which is an imaginary line on the Earth's surface that is internationally agreed upon as the place where each new calendar day begins. The line extends from the North to the South Pole through the Pacific Ocean, roughly along the 180th meridian. The calendar day to the east of the line is one day earlier than it is to the west of the line. The International Date Line was established at the International Meridian Conference in 1884 in order to standardize time, especially for the purpose of travel. 

 

 

There is a 4:00 performance by Trevor Knight doing an all Australian show. Then at 5:00, we meet Marianne and Frank & Rita and Jim in the Platinum & Elite lounge, since they are doing my tour in Auckland and we wanted to make sure we both know what each other looks like so we can find each other to meet for the tour. We have met the others going already, so no problem there. Enjoyed Trevor Knight’s show this afternoon.

Tonight the entertainment is another performance by the Mentalist Timothy Hyde. We just returned and it is a fun and amazing show. He reads micro expressions etc. to guess what card someone is holding or dice rolled or anything really. He asks them to say or do something and based on how they do it he guesses correctly every time. Guess you wouldn’t want to play poker with him…..

Dinner tonight had an emphasis on Indian food. All was very good. There are lots of choices for people that don’t want to eat what is featured each night. I liked Greg’s salad with sweet peanut dressing better than my curry lentil soup. I had a tasty shrimp dish for main course and we both had the chocolate ice cream cake for dessert.

Tomorrow gets quite confusing. You all will have a Friday February 22, but we will NOT. We go to bed tonight Thursday February 21, and wake up on Saturday February 23. Confused yet? Hmmmm…..

We have 2 more days at sea before Auckland. Hopefully, the sun will find its’ way back tomorrow.