Update: we have confirmed time 1000 on the DEC 5 to get home. The date change to the 4 DEC was turned down because of them not granting us extra fuel usage to go faster and get home sooner. We had an awards ceremony onboard today.. lots of people got awards. It lasted for an hour on the turn-table. We had a steel beach too. You can tell it is getting cooler outside. I looked on the weather online.. I can't believe it is so cold back home.. 50s? interesting. It is prob in the low 80s for a high here. We are in transit Rota for the AG {US Department of Agriculture}inspection.. tomorrow and the next are major field days... cleaning outside the ship and then inside our spaces too... should be interesting.. lots of cleaining.