High Jinks on the high seas

 

Today there was a lot of fun and frivolity on the Dawn Princess.

 It started at lunch when the Dawn Nomads got together for our Christmas in July lunch. Each couple brought along a ‘Hometown Gift’ – a souvenir which represented their home town – whatever the country, climate or produce from the region – the funnier the better.

Our contribution was a snow globe of Surfers Paradise beach – now anyone who is familiar with Surfers beach will know that this would be the most ridiculous souvenir ever!!!

We had lunch and conducted a Pirate Santa gift exchange – each couple received a number and could come up and open a gift from the table and then either keep it or ‘steal’ another gift which had been previously opened – Ron and Edie, an American couple, are now the proud owners of our snow globe!!!

 

After lunch, it was time to head to the outside decks for the Crossing the Equator ceremony – when King Neptune climbs aboard the ship to initiate all our unsuspecting ‘pollywogs’- cruisers and crew who have never done an Equator crossing – into the realms of the experienced ‘shellbacks’.

 Despite the heat, hundreds headed up to witness the spectacle and there was a lot of laughter as copious amounts of spaghetti, cold porridge, shaving foam and chocolate sauce (among other things) was spread around – they really were great sports – we had already warned our friends – Judy and Ian – to wear old clothes and swimmers.

Tomorrow, we will be spending the day in Singapore – one of our favourite cities.