Saturday May 25 – At Sea

Today, we learnt the Tango and went to a talk on Malaysia by Huck.  The reason for this talk is that it has now been decided that we will go to Kuala Lumpur instead of Colombo, where the terrorist attacks occurred recently.  So, tomorrow is Singapore and the following day is Malaya.  We crossed the equator today but even though Bill and I looked, we could not see a red line across the ocean to mark this important line.  The ship always acknowledges crossing the equator with the staff dressed up as a judge and Neptune and his wife.  The pollywogs are the people on board who have never crossed the equator in a ship and they are dealt with in quite a messy way.  Being shellbacks, or people who have crossed the equator in the past, meant that we could just take photos of the event.  The script was well written and quite witty.