February 17 - At Sea
We crossed the International Dateline late yesterday, but the ship didn't try to put us onto Sunday for only a few hours. So we just skipped Sunday and woke up to Monday. A little disorienting all day - we kept hearing "what is the day/date today?" - but it's all good. Suddenly though, the day and time at home is quite different so that will take some getting used to. This morning's lecture by Terry Bishop was about cases of people being lost at sea for long periods of time - the longest being over 400 days. This afternoon was Mitchell Symons' second part of the Prime Ministers of England. I didn't think he would, but he made it all the way through to current time. We had to fill out a health evaluation form for the Fijian authorities and Tom and Jan will have to present themselves for a physical evaluation in the morning. I'm guessing this applies to everyone who got on in Papeete. We asked the excursion people about our land tour to Angkor...