Keeping it cool

You'll be relieved to hear we survived the Posidon Adventure that is the Panama Canal.  Okay, that's a slight mischaracterization.  Actually, you know the opening scene in the movie Office Space, where the guy is stuck in traffic on his way to work and the old man with the walker out on the sidewalk is making faster progress than the guy?  If that old man were walking the PC, he would have beat us out of there.

Fortunately, we took it up a notch yesterday by passing over the equator.  To mark the occasion, the ship has a tradition called the King Neptune party.








The King and his court gather poolside, and passengers who are game (nuts?) jump in the pool, kiss a fish and the king's ring then shave their heads.  Yes, about 30 people did it.  Given that we are neither Colts cheerleaders nor former Miss Indianas, we stayed out of the fray.

The other interesting thing about passing the equator is that while it was one of the rare sunny days we've had on this trip, it was also the coolest.  As in jeans and sweatshirts.  Go figure.