09/13/26

When I woke back up around 3pm, it was cheese o’clock, so a great start to my day. I was delighted to see that my PI and lab mate made great progress on washing, but picking was still going slow. However, since we only needed to pick from the first 6cm, we were able to finish EVERYTHING today! This gave me a great sense of accomplishment and relief since we were worried we wouldn’t be able to process everything before we got back to port. 

It was someone’s birthday today so we got cake! The pros of having a research cruise in September is that there are a lot of birthdays in September so we had a lot of celebratory desserts. It was also “Italian” night so we had spaghetti and meatballs with homemade focaccia. After dinner, I made time to sit out on the bow and watch the sunset which consisted of so many types of clouds.