Well, here we are at the final countdown to Mauritius. Seems like Tucanon, Ocean Jasper, and Crazy Horse will all be in sometime tomorrow. We are all so excited to get to the island. I just got all the bags full of cloths sorted and ready to get to the laundry. The next race is to get to the laundry before all the rest of the fleet arrives to use up all the coins, water, and power in the laundry room.
We will descend upon the island with excited faces full of wonder and ready to get our legs working again onsolid ground. It will be wonderful to find some fresh fruit and coffee. Of course others have their preferences of firsts.
Yesterday we had a sailing day with Joshua putting on a good show until the wind died off and came directly off our stern. Then it was a matter of slogging this way and that with the boom all night. Early in the am we put on the motor and have been motoring ever since. The main is put away after a night of flogging and keeping us up all night. So if we get any wind to sail with we will just use the jib. Wind is coming from the stern 120 from either direction. That is not a good sail. However, we are on the direct route to Mauritius at this point along the rhumb line (or rum line so to speak).
Yesterday we seemed ready for a pre-party so I made homemade pizzas from my bread recipe with the last of the veggies and leftovers to use as toppings. That tasted great along with our Aussie beer and we were quite satisfied. I know that I made homemade pizza for the kids when they were younger but Matt swears I never did! When I get back home must remember to do that more often
with the grands.
I'm almost finished the book Hawaii by James Michener. That was the one book of his I never read. I loved all his others. After visiting the places on this trip like Bora Bora, Raitiea, and Fatu Hiva, where the descendants of Hawaii are from, it makes a lot of sense. I recommend this book strongly to anyone who is curious of the ancestry of the Polynesian Island people. Michener does a good job explaining through personal experience the way all the people from China and Japan were not and the difficulties they had being assimilated into the culture.
So between baking bread, playing scrabble, reading we have kept ourselves busy and out of mischief. Of course we all have had our moments but we get through them.
Rosemary, Bill and Matt