Not only are we Shellbacks, we are golden shellbacks. To earn the “golden”, one must cross the equator and the international date line at the same time. The captain announced we did that at 8:07 AM local time today.

There was much silliness about King Neptune. Several of the staff volunteered to be put on trial to see if they were worthy of being shellbacks. For some strange reason, they didn’t allow any of the passengers to be put on trial. We just watched the staff. And we drank gallons of booze. (Not “we” as in passengers, not as Danita and I.) They were selling drinks as fast as the waiters could deliver the drinks.

If you like silliness, there are pictures on the web site. I hope this finds everybody doing well.