Neptune day!

9/5/08

Hi Friends...
Yeah, that’s me...getting a haircut. Not just any haircut, I got my hair shaved off! hahaha. I know. I’ve lost my mind. It’s great :-)
So today was Neptune day, and I don’t know all the details about it but basically after you cross the equator (which we did last night at 8:30!) it’s tradition to shave your head. I wasn’t planning on doing it...but I just decided to go for it at the last minute! My friend Bethany did it with me. I figured hey it’s just hair...it’ll grow back. Plus now it’s way easier to take care of! Don’t need to worry about humidity messing with it or anything! Besides, what a great story to tell...how I shaved my head while crossing the equator on a ship!! Yay!
So the Neptune day festivities started with some of the crew dressed up running through the halls at 7:30am playing music and banging on everyone’s doors to get them up. Then everyone went out to the decks and a couple people got their heads shaved by the captain of the ship. Then as per another tradition related to crossing the equator there were fish guts dumped on people and then they could rinse off in the pool, haha! I’ve never seen anything to crazy and hilarious. Everyone, the staff and crew and faculty were doing it. Then everyone else who wanted to could get their heads shaved....so I went for it. Aaah!! I have no hair now! I’m still getting used to it. It feels cool though, it’s all fuzzy! haha.
Well that’s all for now...to sum up: I have no hair. Hah! We arrive in Brazil Sunday morning!
Peace