February 14, 2011- The Shortest Valentine’s Day Ever!

     Valentine’s Day started for me at 3 am when the clock radio alarm woke me up in Hawaii to get up for our flight back home.  It ended sometime not long before we arrived in Majuro, the capital island of the Marshall Islands, at 8 in the morning on February 15, 2011.  We crossed the International Date Line, and all of a sudden, the day was sucked into the time warp that is simply an imaginary line somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.  It was actually around 10 am Hawaii time as the time changes by another couple of hours when we hit the Marshalls, so technically, February 14 lasted exactly 7 hours for my fiancé and me.  So, we went from our 36 hour day that we gained on the way to Oregon to a 7 hour day going back.  Adding 7 to 36 amounting to 43, and I guess that means we really only lost 5 hours of awake time between Feb. 2^nd and Feb. 15^th into the black hole

of the date line because where we should have had 2 full days coming back, we only experienced 7 hours of one, but we gained back almost all of that time be reliving Groundhog dog on Feb. 2^nd both in Kwajalein and Oregon.  Weird, huh?  Are you thoroughly confused yet?  At any rate, hope you had a good Valentine’s Day!