Groundhog Day

Today is November 22^nd.  After I go to bed tonight and wake up tomorrow, it will still be November 22^nd.  This is a crazy side effect of circumnavigating the globe.  Since our voyage took off going east, we have gradually been losing hours throughout the trip.  We are currently 16 hours ahead of the East coast.  As we get closer to our final destination in Miami we will continue to lose hours (for a total of 24).  If we did not repeat a day, we would arrive in the United States an entire day ahead.  So, today we crossed the International Dateline and tomorrow we will repeat November 22^nd.  I’m still trying to wrap my brain around the idea.  Unfortunately no one on the boat has a birthday on the 22^nd.

 

Just thought I’d share that with you since I thought it was super cool.