Easter Weekend!

Day 16 of the Return Trip

Shoh, it has been cold of late! Day and night. It seems that the sun has grown bored of us or something, because we haven't seen it in a while. The days are bearable but the nights are proper chilly. We've had to dig out all of the beanies, thermals, woollen socks and gloves from the bottom of our bags. Our saving grace is that it has not been excessively windy, and the sea has been quite calm.

The downside to that, of course, is that it has been pretty slow-going in the Eastbound-traverse. Last night we motor-sailed through the whole night, periodically hoisting the genoa when the Easterly breeze had decided to settle in - which was never for more than an hour at a time. At 5 AM our diesel tank ran try, so it was time to plug in the next one (DO NOT WORRY - we have four tanks!). The next tank in line to be used had its connector nozzle damaged in the rough early part of the trip, so Capitaõ Lula had to descend into the laserette once again to syphon the diesel from the full- but-unoperational tank to the operational-but-empty tank. Despite it being

5 AM, the timing couldn't have been better, with the wind blowing a whopping one knot at the time.

We're not sure if it's continuations of the half-way milestone or Easter weekend celebrations, but we've been spoiling ourselves a little. We busted out some home-style rusks to have with our Five-roses tea, Ric treated us to a great meal using our last stock of salami, and we even had pudding of peaches and HOT custard (thanks Kax and Goldy!). I'm telling you, food has never tasted this good.

We continued our lunch time music routine with a play-list put together by Ric. We'd heard that he had some good Fleetwood Mac on his phone, but it turned out just to be Rumours.

It's Easter Sunday today, and Gina surprised us all with smartie- filled-chocolate bunnies all round! Gina for President. Flip. What an angel. It's strange not being able to spend Easter with our families, but there's a bit of a family vibe going on here. Some good laughs, the odd niggles, the occasional bit of friction, but ultimately, lots of patience, understanding and everyone looking our for one another.

Anyways, that being said, we all miss our respective everybodies over there on terra-firma. And we wish you all a  happy and blessed Easter!

Capitaõ Lula/Brennan