Two posts in two days! Like I said we're in Resolute until tomorrow so we have the luxury of relaxing and getting a couple consecutive days of internet access. Yesterday was an exciting day all around. We all went and had lunch on board Billy Budd which for the record is a 112 ft. Royal Huisman. The boat is BEAUTIFUL. IT looks like a 5 star hotel inside. We had a delicious lunch and then coordinated with them for how we were going to go about getting diesel...this is where it gets exciting. We worked out to get a diesel truck down to the beach with a long hose. Billy Budd went first and borrowed our spare anchor. They went in bow first, dropped our anchor off their stern then got a line to a tie point on land and pulled themselves in closer and got a spring line to an adjacent point of land. While they were in fueling up the wind picked up to around 15kts blowing directly onto the beach where we were trying to get to and it started to snow. Once they were done they took their bowline off the land, their dinghy took the anchor line and our dinghy took the spring line. We then came in off to one side, dropped our anchor and let the wind swing us around so we were stern towards the beach at which point we grabbed the anchor they had dropped so we had a Y off the bow of our boat and then got the spring line and brought our own line from our stern in to pull us towards shore. It was a hell of an operation and took us about 3 hours, but was still so much easier than figuring out how to get over 1000L of diesel from the gas station down to the beach and out to the boat. Today is a big prep day all around, we are getting all of our laundry done while I write this courtesy of the hotel in Resolute, then we are doing as big a grocery shopping as we can and then we have to get the boat all ready for the German invasion. We have to clean and organize and rearrange sleeping spaces. This includes moving the yankee back out of Rob and my cabin so that we can utilize the third bunk in the bow berth which should be fun. Once we're all set we have tomorrow to hopefully relax a little bit and prepare ourselves for the coming stretch which will hopefully take us all the way to Tuktoyaktuk, or if we can't make it there by the time Hans has to go then we'll drop them off in Cambridge Bay. One final note, I would like to give a shout out to my cousin Ellie who used to have a hot chocolate everyday. I have to say that I have now come close to this same behavior and it's amazing. Hot chocolate is delicious, and for me the hot part is also a big factor! As a boat we consume an immense amount of hot water in the form of coffee, tea, hot chocolate and cup of soup. Again all for the warmth factor.