Strange job perks

So I have been thinking about posting this for a while now. Unfortunately, I have no photos of my favorite strange job perk. Basically, it's this....for our toilets we take in sea water. Besides having a filter so no fish end up in the bowls it is straight sea water. This means that in places we take on bioluminescent plankton, or phosphorescence, or the stuff from that scene in the beach when they are in the water at night kissing and the water is glowing. That ought to cover it for everyone. So bioluminescent plankton glow when they are moved around, for instance when the bow of our ship plows through them. Another way they glow is when you flush the toilet and they happen to be in your toilet bowl. I had heard that this happened, but never believed it until I saw if with my own eyes. It's the strangest job perk ever to be able to go into my cabin head with the lights off, flush the toilet, and see this amazing, if brief, light show. I almost think they should put it recruitment flyers because that's pretty neat. What other job gives you that. So that's the job perk that I love most and honestly miss a bit being back here on land.

Speaking of being on vacation and on land I did this incredible thing today. It's incredible because I hate cold - thus the winter job in Mexico - an incredible amount. I, today, bought a plane ticket to Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada for this weekend. It's been a balmy 40 below C of late so my tan is not going to be getting better there. BUT, I am sure I will have amazing pictures of the Festival du Voyageur, one of the reasons I am going. So check back!