A nice relaxing sea day finally. Cathy of course had her usual array of things like trivia to do. For me the first real thing was the crossing the line ceremony (held somewhat in advance of our actual crossing). Amusing, but somewhat tacky too, not really the type of thing you’d go to more than once. We actually crossed the line around 1:30 ship’s time (which is actually 2:30 local time, for some reason we never changed times when we entered this time zone).
Watched the art auction, although nothing is really calling out to me so far.
Last Christmas cruise we took Cathy was kinda annoyed that we didn’t do the gingerbread house decorating because I figured it would be more of a kid thing (although we found out later plenty of adults did it too). So she was pretty insistent that we do it this time. And I have to admit I was pretty impressed at the turnout, there were quite a few people who did it. Cathy was kinda resistant to me putting a stripe down the middle of the house representing the equator, but did finally give in. We also had one of our gingerbread men falling off the roof of the house.
Watched the sun set over the Amazon from the balcony. It’s a real tough job, but I guess someone has to do it.