Last Tuesday Elizabeth sent us a small box with our accumulated mail. It was sent fed ex, 2 day delivery and was supposed to be delivered to us at Joe Wheeler by 4:30 Thursday. It didn’t show up and tracking then showed it would be delivered by 4:30 Friday. Unfortunately we were leaving early Friday morning, so the big question became how to get the package. I decided to contact one of the Loopers we had become friends with who was staying at Wheeler until Saturday to see if she could pick it up. I thought we would see them in a few days and we could get it from them at that point. It finally arrived just before 6 on Friday and Rose was able to get it for us. She then found someone headed to the next marina who then passed it off to two other boats headed to our marina today. By the time it got to us it had been on 4 different boats! Looper friends are the best!
One would think that it would get warmer as we headed south, but cold fall weather seems to be following us. We brought a few cold weather clothes, but I thought we wouldn’t need them until we were on our way back to Lafayette for Thanksgiving.
9:30 at night, it’s 43 degrees, headed down to 37,and there’s a frost advisory – really???
We can only get PBS stations here, so there was no football to watch yesterday. We were able to get scores on the internet, though, and were so excited to see both the Huskers and Boilermakers were victorious. And the Colts won, too, so it was a good football weekend. Too bad the IU team didn’t win – that would have made it a perfect football weekend!
Since we had nowhere to go today, I decided to make pancakes for breakfast. When we’re traveling we eat dry cereal while underway – a snack baggie of frosted mini-wheats and a travel mug of coffee is our standard breakfast. So a sit down hot breakfast is special. This afternoon I baked a batch of Bisquik knish – it’s a recipe Rich’s mom gave me decades ago and is kind of quiche-like. It’s a great appetizer, freezes well, everyone loves it, and it’s great to have for docktails.
Tomorrow morning we will have to be up early since the service department is supposed to start our various repairs. Somehow this trip hasn’t allowed for too many mornings to sleep late!