Neptune Day (Day 23)

Today was Neptune Day, where we crossed the equator! As part of the festivities we had to have “fish guts” dumped on our heads and then jump in the pool. When you got out you had to kiss a fish pay your respects to Queen Minerva and kiss King Neptune’s ring. Once you did that you were no longer a scallywag but now a clamback. For people who wanted to pay the ultimate homage they could shave their heads. I DID NOT SHAVE MY HEAD! But many girls did. We then had a pretty cool dance party up on the pool deck which is now slimy and pretty darn gross. King Neptune was actually Captain Jeremy! It was a lot of fun and I have some pretty good pictures. And just think all this went down before 10 am! Oh yeah we were woken by the lovely crew who walked the halls playing instruments of some kind (mostly drums) and banging on our doors. So much for sleeping in on our first no class day. We are all still trying to catch up on sleep from the last 4 days in Ghana. So now we are supposed to buckle down and study (yeah right); but they actually have this listed as a study day on the calendar. We shall see how the rest of the day goes.