Noon position 4/25/16: 19 43.8457 N 153 08.9943 W
Noon to noon distance travelled: 138 nm
Total distance travelled: 2802 nm
Distance to Hilo: 110 nm
Okay, it feels safe finally say it, looks like we will make landfall tomorrow! Hopefully before noon. Woot!
We missed the fact that we moved into the Hawaii time zone yesterday, oops. So, the noon to noon distance above actually reflects 26 hours. When I changed to Hawaii time (or UTC-10) on all our devices it changed the time by 2 hours. I'm guessing it is because Hawaii doesn't do daylight savings time? Anyway, that's what we are going with, we will be corrected tomorrow if need be, when we are back on land, in Hawaii! Can you tell I'm excited?
In other news Lars lost his other top front tooth last night while in bed trying to fall asleep. Funny thing is that it wasn't even all that loose when he went to bed, nothing that would indicate it was coming out imminently. Kind of a surprise to all of us. He may have decided he doesn't want money and wants to keep the tooth. If I hadn't been trying to go to sleep myself, it would have been really cute hearing him process his feelings about it. I finally told him that if he wasn't sure, he could leave it out on the counter and not under his pillow and the tooth fairy wouldn't come, she gets the signal only when it's under your pillow. So far today he seems to like the idea of writing a note, taping the tooth to it and holding onto it himself. I told him the tooth fairy offer is good for three days. Should be interesting to see what happens. I loved hearing him trying to hash out the arguments around money, things, desires, etc. The kid is a deep thinker! I just wish I'd be
en able to enjoy it more but I was falling asleep!
Tonight is the last night watch and tomorrow I can go to bed knowing that I don't have to wake up for the day at 2:00am!
At the risk of jumping the gun here, I am thinking you are in the harbor at Hilo right now, possibly checking in with the harbormaster, doing whatever it is you have to do to arrive legally and properly. You may not have touched dock by noon after all, I don't know, but I'll bet you are there by now. I am so looking forward to seeing your Day 24 posting, the last blog of the big slog! Wooie and hurrah, yay for those tradewinds, and congratulations, perhaps an hour or two in advance, on completing your first big, really big, open ocean crossing!
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