Friday, Day 11 - We still have a ways to go, but feeling good with the tropical sun shining upon us, bare feet, suntan lotion of course, and the wind in our sails. Matt made us french toast this morning for breakfast - it was absolutely delicious. We love our current spinnaker, the 4S. She is doing great as we pulled her tight to the deck and she doesn't seem to want to do her own dancing anymore. We just hit the 500 nm mile mark so counting the miles down to our mai tais! Hopefully we won't be arriving in Kanehoe during the middle of the night, but currently that is our prediction. As we all know, a lot can happen in a few days, so we'll see.

We spent most of Thursday cruising and getting our rest. The guys played "Sea Card" trivia up on deck while Jennifer and I read below. We all needed a little R&R so ended the evening with the "other 1/2" of the tuna for dinner along with Jennifer's "homemade" chocolate chip cookies. During children's hour, we divulged our shrimping incident with our spinnaker and then about 5 other confessions came in. Seemed we weren't the only one. Several other boats did the same and didn't have the same luck of bringing her back on board, one big boat dropped two overboard - made us amateurs feel better! A couple of carbon fiber poles were also part of the carnage in last evening's report, but everyone is okay and all continue to regroup and sail on.

Well, I'd better get back on deck to drive my shift. Quote of the Day: "I was born for this shit!" Kim