There Be Pirates In These Waters

With no Mauritius, this will be our longest stretch at sea. Eleven days of pasta and potatoes. Crossing the Atlantic only took nine. Thank goodness I bought two gigantic jars of peanut butter back in Cape Town. I asked why we can't just go to Mauritius a day late and then book it to India, I mean this ship doesn't normally sail at full speed anyway. But apparently it does on the stretch from Mauritius to India because Somalian pirates are such a major threat.

I kid you not, we literately speed up the ship to outrun pirates. They chase us on these high-speed boats and then used giant magnets to climb up onto the ship. Apparently on a previous voyage the crew were all armed on the deck with fire-hoses to ward them off. Oh the excitement of living at sea!