It’s been 3 days since an update but somehow doesn’t seem like much to add. I guess this time in G-Town has been more like “real world”. Lots of errands and time consuming items like hand laundry, water collection. A trip to town in Amel on super windy day that still had a soaking wet dinghy ride with waves splashing over the bow – onto us, our food – nothing like wet bread, eh?! So many days I wonder where the time goes by – but it essentially took 6hrs to accomplish a 30mins shopping trip. Painful for a person who is a process efficiency expert – this is not it!
One morning, we did get a nice Stretch class on the beach, under the casuarina’s trees with blue sky above. Not sure how one goes back to classes in a gym after these experiences. Kids volunteered for a beach cleanup day which was great until the squall hit and we all got soaking wet (gorgeous wild beach though with huge sand cliffs – very dramatic).
This morning we woke to crazy squalls and torrential rains. Mike spent the morning wet, collecting rain, doing hand laundry in all the fresh water and keeping anchor watch. Lots of other boats dragging but not us (or boats near us thank goodness). We would have zero wind – then go to 35knot squalls in seconds. At some points the rain was so hard we could not see the boats next to us.
So we’ve had some trials, errands, chores. Just a few ho-hum kind of days. Trying to fit in school work as we can. Highlights were spending time with Mojo – a boat friend we have been getting to know better and better and we really like (1 boy 1 girl similar ages) and today meeting up with Glory Days who we met as “Mandolin” 15yrs ago on our first sailing journey. A quick but fun reunion.
Big rain squalls tonite and all tomorrow – wish us luck (one hitting now as I write this – not often we are up till midnight!). It may not be snow – but we are getting our precipitation in a different form!
A few comments about some photos:
– Mike up the mizzen mast attempting to get Amel’s radar functioning again. (because hey, why would you sit for an hour and relax when you could be FIXING something right? )
– Anglican church in town had beautiful stainglass
– Kids playing in the sand playground at the local school
– When you loose something at the bottom of the fridge that you can’t reach it – what to do? Send your child in upside down to retrieve it of course! (those are Emma’s legs that Mike is holding)
Facebook post to go with the 2 ice cream photos:
$10. Yes we paid $10 for one tub of ice cream. That is $10 of pure happiness you are looking at!!!!! 4 spoons and we went at it. Container said 12 servings…..we finished the tub just the 4 of us. Licked clean. You should have seen the smiles….
The hardships we must endure without a freezer on board!
Fun Afloat 