Day 110 Provisioning

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In the morning, Mark and Andy boarded Liahona for a trip to town to stock up for the trip. We spent some time planning our menu so we would not have to do so much cooking on the rocking boat at sea and gave Andy the list of supplies. We have found that there are things we can pre-cook before leaving port that we can use to make quicker and safer meals at sea. For instance, cooking up a lot of bacon before we leave eliminates the hazard of hot bacon grease when the galley is tossing about. The same is true for macaroni and the hazard of boiling water. From Golden Lion we learned that cooking a batch of small bite-sized hamburgers in advance makes a nice snack at sea.
While they were shopping, I tried to load as many pictures onto the new blog site as possible. Once we leave Bora Bora, we will be at sea for the next 5 days and may not readily find an Internet connection once we get to the Cook Islands. After 2 ½ hours I was cross-eyed from looking at the computer and the crew returned so it was time to do some cooking as we left the marina to anchor behind motu Toopua for the night with the idea of doing one more Bitter End beach party before departing.
No sooner had we anchored than it began raining. The rain continued into the night so the three boats - Liahona, Eaio and us - ate alone after which we hosted a small card game.
The night ended with one last conference on the weather. The front that is moving South of us that will cause dramatic changes in the next few days and everyone wants the most up to date information.