Going to the head on a boat...

Having finally come to the point where one can do the 'big commission', one realizes it (always) happens when the waves are at their strongest...so you enter the head and Zephyr at least has a big one, one lowers ones shorts & knickers while balancing like it's the best circus act you will ever perform, then you cling onto the sink with your hands and with legs wide apart, as to not fall off the already not so tight toilet seat ... the 'relief' happens and what a joy! Waves getting better, where is the toilet paper ??!! ahh 'slightly' gone humid, you wipe and stand up and look at your artwork, but then ohhh djeeeh the waves and you def. want to keep all of that in the bowl, so with your shorts still below the knees and your knickers on the knees you start flushing furiously, ahhh another one of those waves and you spread out better, one hand against the hatch to push you down, wonderful it's all flushed away and then some algae shows up !!! making the head look dirty so you k eep on flushing with yessss your knickers still at knee height ! Hopefully the door will not swing open at this particular moment !! Please save me from that embarrassment !

Then finally, the moment arrives on pulling up your knickers and your shorts...Not so easy as hands are free now, the boat is wizzing at 9knts an hour, legs too wide spread to 'just' pull them up, so in free air and bounched around, you finally end up finishing the job...piuffff now out of there until it all starts all over in a couple of hours...

Coming out someone says... All ok dear ? ahahahaha I laugh, if only they would have seen me in there ... and... thank god that I am in the Pacific and no oilies needed !

Other 'grand' news of the day... - 1 day and 15 hours to go.. happy to see land but it's also so wonderful to be out here in our own little world - Micky's morning courtesy flag hosting has cost us lots of internal competition as to how to get it down without going up the mast, 9 hours later and we still haven't managed it..ahhhh yesss Lalo just did it with a loop in the halyard...well done !!! - another great bread is made on board, DS, thanks for the great recipe - Lalo's rice pudding, also homemade, has def got a much better taste today - we still have 2 reefs in and we are still flying at an average of 7.5 kts... we are really flying off these nice big waves ! How much bluer can blue be ? - Chris still no green flash and we miss you on board... - and .. .where is that submarine ?? :-)