Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Today I woke everyone up in some assortment of different methods, so here is the full route I did. I first went to Bryce, who was beside me on the deck, and I woke him up pretty normally by shaking him gently. Then I saw that the hatch to the cabins beside me was open, and that was the quickest way down, so I leaped down into the room. The noise woke everyone up; the intention was not to do that and wake up everyone with my harmonica, but unfortunately Im clumsy and made hella noise. But anyway, I had to salvage the situation, you know, so I did some Mongolian throat singing into Alexs ear and ya. I then went to the next cabins. I once again did throat singing, this time into Oonas face. This seemed to have frightened her quite a bit, as she jerked back in her bed and made a noise. Then I went to the room across the hall and did the same thing to Nate and Henry. And for the last two rooms, everyone kinda just woke up, so thats it for morning wake-ups.
For breakfast, Stella had made some really scrumptious banana bread the previous night; we ate that up. After the cleanup, we made a ferry to a dock in the north end of Boston. We did this to visit the very cool ship called the Elissa; it was built in 1887, and the last time it was in Boston was 1888. We had a lovely conversation with the staff on board. And after all that, we headed to the park called the Boston Commons. On the way, we went into a CVS and stocked up on snacks and whatnot for the upcoming weeks without landfall.
At the park, we split up into groups; I dont know what everyone else did, but we got lunch. I dont rly wanna write about this part; its just food, you know what Im sayin. But the cool parts of this moment in time are that loads of ducks and birds and squirrels came up behind us in the park where we were sitting. The group I was with consisted of me, Bridge, Britboy, Max, Oona, Lorelai, Ellery, Stella, and Declan. We went to a restaurant that was selling food. We got some very nicely cooked Japanese cuisine. My favorite part was Lorelai struggling with chopsticks. After that, we met up with everyone to head to sailing.
At the sailing club, we got onto some small sailing boats, and we did this for the purpose of fun, but also to refresh our memories of the points of sail, which will probably be useful once we are underway. When we headed back to Vela, we were greeted at the gate with a massive pile of groceries. We needed to shove it all into compartments throughout the boat. It was some very nicely coordinated teamwork if you ask me. And after that we had pizza for dinner, and now Ive covered the day. Peace.
Written by Jerry