March 4, 2024 Sea Day 63 days left of 138 days

 Happy Birthday in Heaven Grandma Blanche. 

Today is a sea day, and we are rock and rolling along on the sea, and in the boat. We were given the new excursions to review for Africa, and today at noon we were suppose to be able to sign up on our phones and the Viking app. Do you see an issue here? It turned out about as good as you would expect. We are adults here, but everyone wants to figure out how to be first in line, and get all their first choices. When we originally signed up for the excursions we were given dates based on our level of cabin to choose our excursions. Today was no different, but this was not communicated clearly to our fellow travelers, so everyone is upset, concerned they won't get their first choice, tired of traveling. I don't know, but there are a lot of unhappy people, and unfortunately the Viking staff are taking the brunt of the unhappy discord. Surprise, Surprise, the Viking app. did not work, so now we turned in paper with our selections and wait up to 72 hours to see what we got. It is going to be a tough couple of days. 

 What do you do when there is turmoil about. SPA DAY! Mike and I have haircuts and I have a pedicure planned.

Now look at our hair. Mike requested a short buzz cut, but I did not. They say that the difference between a bad hair cut and good hair cut is about 2 weeks. This one may take longer. 

Mike wants to make sure that you know he walked 5 miles yesterday, and yesterday and today we laid out in the sun. I always head to the pool first.

Big news, we crossed the Equator for the second time around midnight last night. There will be some new Shellbacks among our ranks.

We have several friends that will be leaving this adventure early in Singapore. There are many reasons to leave early, and I hope all of them can look back on their time spent with fondness, and remember the adventure and good times. We will miss them all and wish them well.

We celebrated a birthday tonight at dinner. Carol's birthday is later in March, but she will have left the ship, so tonight was the night to celebrate.

We have a comedian tonight. We thought I could finish the blog, and we could watch the show from our cabin. Win for us.

When we are in our room, we have started watching season 1 of "Lie to Me". We are really enjoying the show.