Author: Pete

Location: 21°35.573S’ 175°13.900E’

Date: 10.31.15

Day 3 at sea.

Happy Halloween!  We’re celebrating All Hallow’s Eve aboard with a big bag of candy corn smuggled to us by Miranda’s buddy Teri. Surprisingly, we haven’t had many Trick-or-Treaters out tonight.  Miranda doesn’t have much of a sweet tooth, so I have a feeling that I’m going to be eating the whole bag myself.  Jacked up blood sugar is a really great way to break up the monotony of cruising.  TIME TO GO RIDE BIKES!  TIME TO SWAB THE DECKS!  WHO WANTS TO GO UP THE MAST?!  Haven’t figured out a good costume yet.  Possibly a sailor?  A pirate?  Or maybe a mermaid?  Not much else in the costume department ’round these parts.  I wanted to go as a ghost this year but Miranda said we need the sails intact.  She doesn’t feel the need for a costume, saying, “I pretty much resemble a hobo right about now.”  We’ll have to find her a stick and a handkerchief.

 

You’d think the open ocean would be a spooky place on Halloween, what with the web-footed sea monsters, shipwrecked souls lost to the deep, and devious merfolk all floating about.  In actuality, it’s another beautiful moonlit night.  The only scary thing out here is our hygiene and diet.  We’re pushing canned meat since it will be confiscated in New Zealand.  BLTs have been on the lunch menu with crispy Spam instead of bacon!  We still have ghoul-green lettuce and blood-red tomatoes to go on the sandwiches.  They’re horrifyingly good!  No pumpkins floating about, and we’re out of coconuts, so we made a dozen zombie eggs for fun!  It’s tough to draw on a round object on a bucking boat.

Time to go howl at the moon.