Life is going smoothly here on Maple in the Pacific. The view doesn't change too much out here, although far off on the horizon today, I saw four spouts of water that only could have been whales, but unfortunately they never came close enough to see them. We have a few more days out here yet so perhaps we will get some whales visiting like they did for us on the Atlantic.
The bananas are ripening fast. Haven't had to resort to baking banana bread yet, but I think it is only a matter of days. I was reflecting today that my dad would have been quite impressed at the $10 we paid for our giant stalk of bananas. My dad for some unknown reason would pay close attention to the price of bananas when shopping. I can't remember what he felt was a reasonable price, but I think he would consider what we paid a bargain.
Sushi is on the menu tonight with the yellow fin tuna that we caught last evening. The sushi rice is made, just need to get the girls to cut the avocado and cucumber, then we can start rolling. I am regretting not buying the pickled ginger that was surprisingly on the shelf in Santa Cruz. As you can tell food really is a focus during passages because what else is there to do.
The girls deserve huge praise for getting right into the routine of school in the morning, followed by their watches and then they are allowed to watch movies. I think their current goal is to watch the entire Glee TV Series (again) before we arrive in the Marquesas. Nothing like having goals.
Thank you for your emails, Mom and Jeff. Unfortunately we are still really struggling to get a decent connection on the radio and still have not successfully downloaded a weather file since we left. So I won't be responding to emails individually just yet. Hopefully we can eventually find a reliable station and time to connect. Jeff, it was great to hear the play is going well!! And Mom, glad to hear the Galapagos postcard finally arrived. We mailed it from San Cristobal, the first island we visited, so it took around 3 weeks to arrive.
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At 2019-05-02 22:20 (utc) our position was 03°35.79'S 095°51.20'W
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