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| Meredith jumping off AMARA to celebrate this huge milestone! |
Martin jumping in to celebrate!
Wednesday, we celebrated our mid-passage point of 1500 miles
behind us and 1500 miles to go. To
celebrate, we had ice-cream (a luxury at this point in the game). 
We did a mid-ocean swim and then I also threw out a "message in a bottle" overboard hoping that it arrives in some exotic foreign country, where some interesting person will find it. Then they'll write me and we will become pen pals for life (Ok. I threw in a few bucks for incentive).
I wrote a poem and sent it off into
the waters for good will.
The mid-ocean swim turned out to be quite a treat from the constant time at sea these past 11 days. It's obvious that we are getting closer to
paradise as the water was a warm 80-degrees when we jumped in the Pacific. It was such a wonderful time and fun had by
all.
Sue and David getting in on the action.
Well... for everyone but me. Somehow when I jumped in the water, I managed
to jump into a patch of some type of jellyfish and was stung all over my arms
and back. I kept saying to everyone,
"Is anyone else feeling this? Cuz
it's stinging!" Not a one had this experience. Just my luck, but at least I'll never forget my
mid-ocean swim because of it. I guess that took
"one for the team" and sucked it up and kept swimming.
Lily did a mid-ocean swing instead.
Getting mid-point in the Pacific ocean is a monumental rite of passage as it is
the furthest point in the water from land.
Such daredevils. It really was fun and I didn't think once
about all the critters that could be potentially swimming beneath me and just
enjoyed the celebration. I will say, that I didn't let Lily's feet get even wet. She just enjoyed all the festivities from her swing and seemed just as excited as we were.
These two are always working on something.
