More of Day 7 -

This is turning into one of our longer journeys.  Light winds, but at least today there were some winds.  We even hit a midday squall and raced to drop the spinnaker (again in love with the sock), and get our Genoa out just before it all hit.  The sail must have collected a lot of water 'cause our drum filled up in about 15 minutes!  We put some in the bilge and Vitality and Valiant got into the drum for a fun swim and bath.  I got a couple very cute pictures of them in there.  

We pulled out some jingle bell instruments, Cassidy on guitar, and an iPod playing and had a fun dance party, then went for a swim.  Valiant has one or sometimes 2 adults escorting him, but he lets go and likes to fly solo (thus the second adult at the receiving end to reign him in as he floats by the back of the boat).  Whenever he can get free and bob in the water he's just ecstatically laughing.  

Then, to top off our fun day, Kim reeled in her first fish.  It was a beautiful medium sized yellow tail tuna.  Cassidy pan seared up a nice half of it for dinner and we will have the other half tomorrow.  The new fridge is making leftovers quite easy on us! 

This evening while watching the sunset and playing on deck we saw a few dolphins.  They were about 100 feet away and didn't come over to play.  Haven't seen dolphins in a long time, so it was nice to see, but we were hoping they'd come entertain us a bit longer.

This is turning into one of our longer trips.  Our weather router anticipated it as a 7 day 12 hour trip, but here we are at 7 days and still another 600 miles to go.  Of course, we missed cyclone Solo, so that was nice . . . We will be land starved by the time we arrive.  

Can't wait to meet the Swedish boat with 2 kids!!  Hope they are ready for some Explorer time!!

Shannon