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How weird is this…we go to bed tonight (Tuesday) and will wake up on Thursday!! Tonight around midnight we will cross the International Date Line and we’ll “skip” a day forward. And, because we don’t cross back over on our way home – we keep going west eventually ending in Athens, Greece, we never get this day back. It’s just lost. Missing in action. Gone.
What if something really important happens on the 25th? We just miss it? Does it happen for us? It’s such a strange concept. I get that we have time zones and at some point if you keep going back that eventually you have to go forward, but it’s still really strange. We have crossed the International Date Line on airplanes before…but when you do it that way it happens fast, and you just calculate it into the time you are flying, etc. But this way, slowly creeping towards it and then losing a whole day, is just so abrupt.
We’ve been moving our clocks back an hour every other night or so since we left Tahiti, and that was 2 hours back from the West Coast. Today is another Sea Day and as we float toward Thursday we think about the loss of our dear Wednesday. We’ll just keep our fingers crossed that something really good doesn’t happen and we miss out on it!
I hope everyone out there has a great “Wednesday” and think of us…we won’t exist tomorrow! Weird.
Sherrie - No Worries. . . nothing special happened on Wednesday, you didn’t miss a thing!
We’ll miss “Super bowl Sunday”, when we cross the international dateline. . .Darn!
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