We finally made it! We've left Curacao and are now at "Klein Curacao" (that means "Little Curacao"). Yahoo!! Ok, so we're only 20 miles from Curacao and can see it in the distance, but still..it's progress! We left Monday morning around 9:00am and got here about 5:00pm. What we thought was going to be a 4 to 5 hour trip took us closer to 8. I could walk 20 miles faster than that! But it is good to have left the boatyard finally. I was jumping up and down in the cockpit as we sailed by the picturesque little Dutch town of Willemstad on our way out of the harbor...it felt exhilarating just to be going somewhere!

We tried out our new sails and got Scappatella cruising along at 7 - 8+ knots beating into the wind, and that was without spending much time trimming the sails! It will be fun to see what we can get out of them when we have more energy. We went way out of our way tacking (as Klein Curacao lay directly into the wind from where we started) but eventually just decided to motor into the wind so we could get here before dark. We both took seasick meds, but I was still a bit nauseas and VERY tired. I slept almost the whole way. That's definitely the worst part of this whole adventure for both of us: feeling sick, having to take meds, and, for me, being so tired and lethargic from them. They don't affect Louis as much; probably being bigger helps. Maybe I just need to eat more?

Anyway, we're here and it's a picturesque little Caribbean island. We watched our 1st sunset last night, had a bite to eat, and then went straight to bed. We both slept for 12 hours straight! I guess we're a bit tired :