Day 146 : Are we nearly there yet?

High point: somewhere over a rainbow

Low point: rough seas

Ping pong point: being beaten by the Super yet again, but not as badly as Steve, is a massive achievement I feel

Last night we hit a 10 metre swell.  Not being accustomed sailors, to us the Le Mans Express sounded like she was going to come apart at the seams.  As she moaned and groaned the creaking noise was deafening.  And on top of that our cabin had become part of some freaky rollercoaster ride.  People pay good money to experience that ‘scream if you want to go faster’ feeling, so why wasn’t I enjoying the cabin being tilted all angles and nearly failing out of bed every 2 minutes?  Was this really how it was all going to end… in a tin can still only somewhere off the coast of Australia?  Please no!

It was light when the sea finally calmed down and we could get some zeds.  As they say, worst things happen at sea.

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Life on board the ship has become similar to the way Hugh Grant lives his life in the film ‘About a Boy’.  If you’ve not seen it, Hugh Grant’s character doesn’t have a job and so breaks his day up into units of time, 1 unit = making a cup of coffee, 5 units = going for a paper, and so on.  If 1 unit = 2 minutes, we have about 450 units to get through in a day:

– going to get a glass of water from the galley = 1 unit

– breakfast, lunch and dinner = 25 units

– walking around the ship = 2.5 units

– general pointless chat and banter with the crew = 15 units

– running laps of the ship = 15 units

– reading = 60 units give or take

– fire engine admin = 60 units

– blogging, videos and photos = 30 units

– I spy = 2 units

You get the point.

Amy

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