I have vague memories of the last time I attended one of these, aged about six years old and en route from the UK to NZ. Everyone then dressed up and from memory it involved King Neptune and people being chucked in the pool.
We weren't particularly keen on that happening so went up on a higher deck to watch. It must be a fairly set formula - King Neptune arriving with his entourage to hold a mock court and sentence a number of selected miscreants. There was someone charged with gluttony for attending every sitting of every meal, a couple charged with PDAs in the spa pool and various other equally ridiculous things.
The punishments were made to fit the crimes, the glutton for example, being operated on and his innards removed (we'd wondered what the mounds of spaghetti and chains of sausages were being taken from the kitchen for). The "captain" was chucked fully clothed into the pool and other transgressors were smeared with jelly and cream and some good old English slapstick ensued. Finally everything was declared correct and we were free to cross the line.
Apart from that it's been more of the same - swimming, reading, trivia, a few crosswords and things in the library and more reading. Luckily the weather is fine and sunny if a little hot and windy.
A bird's eye view
The "captain" seemed to enjoy his involuntary swim, maybe because it is so hot.
Photos taking an age to load tonight so not as many as I had intended to post. Probably enough!
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