Back to the Future

For perhaps the only time in my life I don’t have a case of the Mondays.  You see for those of us aboard the M.V. Explorer Monday simply did not exist.  Last night we crossed the international dateline and jumped into the future from Sunday to Tuesday.   

Time may be relative but losing an entire day is quite a mind-freak.   On my previous voyage we crossed the dateline going in the opposite direction so we had April 20^th twice.  I look at it as getting my life back in balance.  I was a bit disappointed there wasn’t a buoy marking the crossing but I guess it would be pretty difficult to make something like that happen.

Last night we had our second big event on the ship, Trivia night.  It was a big success and as always some of the wrong answers were better than the correct answer.  For example, pumice is correct answer to the question of what is only type of rock that floats.  Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is not. 

Five more days to Japan!