The Day That Never Will Be

After 18 days of travel, we are now on our way to New Zealand.  Today is Tuesday and we still have two more sea days after today before we reach Auckland on Saturday.     Since leaving San Francisco on September 19^th, we have moved our clocks back 4 times, putting us 6 hours behind Central Time.   But that all changes Thursday, when we cross the international date line.    Actually according to our maps, we have already crossed it.  But the ship is declaring Thursday “international date line day” and poof Thursday, October 8^th doesn’t exist “for us.”  So today is Tuesday, October 6^th, tomorrow is Wednesday October 7^th, we then its Friday October 9^th.  So instead of being 6 hours behind, we will jump 18 hours ahead.  Think about that for awhile!