International Dateline

I definitely should have written about this when it was happening but I got caught up with shiplife!! Since we are sailing in the direction we around the world we will gain 22 hours over the course of our voyage! Basically, every few nights we have been changing the clocks back (including last night)! In the past two weeks we've already changed it back 5 times, which is nuts! We are so fortunate to be going this way because we get to add so many extra zzzzs which is nice because I swear the rocking of the ship makes everyone sleepy! I think most people get way more sleep here than on their normal college campus yet we're all so exhausted and to think we have only been to Hawaii!! Since we will be adding so many hours, when we crossed the international dateline, to make up for it by losing a whole day! We crossed it on February 1st but for some reason decided to keep February 2nd and throw out the third! So for us the days went Tuesday February 2nd to Thursday February 3rd! Neat right?! So today for me is Friday February 5th at 12 pm which makes me 16 hours AHEAD of east coast time!!! Just thought I'd share that because I think it is so interesting that we just got to pick the day that wouldn't exist!!



On a side note - there were FOUR people who didn't have a birthday because it fell on our "lost" day!! What a cool story to say one of your birthdays didn't exist!