We have continued to make good progress towards NZ. We are about 350 miles out. Unfortunately the wind is starting to lighten, we can still sail, but if it gets too light we will turn on the motor.
Everyone is in good spirits, no one has been seasick. The kids only get grumpy when I try to get them to do a little schoolwork.
I think this may be the only passage where anyone has gained weight. We have so much food due to all the fish the guys caught. And we still have a few more meals worth of fish. So today we needed to use some of the ground beef we had, so we made meatballs, baked buns, and had meatball sandwiches for lunch. You get a new appreciation for such a simple meal when you have to make each part from scratch. Last night's dinner was extravagant! We had lobster pasta and a Tonga green (like a long broccoli) sauteed in garlic and olive oil. Delicious! We cooked the last 7 lobsters, but there was so much we still have 2 more tails just for snacking. Plus I made chicken noodle soup, since we had another chicken to use, and we had banana muffins for breakfast. I am happy to say that through all this cooking only a little bit of food has gone flying. I guess that is inevitable when the galley is uphill.
As we get closer to NZ everyone is getting more excited. We all had expressed our desires of what we want first. Gigi's may be the most pressing as she needs new clothes, especially pants, since she has grown out of everything.
Fair sailing,
Julie
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