Never been more proud of my country!

Hi everyone!
What an exciting day :-) for me it’s Wednesday afternoon, but for everyone at home it’s Tuesday night, a pretty historical night I’d say! We were lucky enough to get live coverage of the election updates and speeches by McCain and Obama on the ship! We all had to stop using the internet for a few hours so that they could get the video feed to work. So everyone on the ship stopped using the internet and we all crowded into the union where they had screens up showing the live video and it was SO exciting! In a way I wish I could have been at home to experience all the excitement going on there but it was pretty cool to be here also, with everyone else on the ship watching history happen from the middle of the ocean! Obama even mentioned “Americans overseas and in forgotten corners of the world”who were watching, and everyone on the ship cheered. We were glad to hear that! It will be interesting to get to China tomorrow and see if it’s made big news there. I think I’ll see if I can pick up any Chinese newspapers that might talk about the election tomorrow!

Well I’ll write more in the next couple days, I just thought I’d write a little thing about the day’s excitements!

I’m excited to come home now :-)