I can’t believe it’s been almost a week since I last posted anything. I guess I’ll try to do a day by day account of what we’ve been doing for the past week – if I can remember that far back!
I spent last Wednesday figuring out when we will go back to IN in March and then trying to find the best flights for the dates we needed. That was a real chore, but I was eventually able to get us nonstop flights both ways. Now we just have to pray for no snow in Indy so we can get there as scheduled.
Thursday was spent doing laundry – nothing too exciting about that. It is nice to sit by the pool, though, instead of going back to the boat while the clothes are in the washers and dryers. After doing laundry, I decided it was a bad night for cooking, so we went back to the restaurant that had the great Caesar salad and had salads and seafood apps. That meant we had enough room for dessert – and what a dessert we had!
Friday – big event was to see if we could finally run out of water in our water tank. We decided since we’re hooked up to marina water we should empty the boat’s water tank so we don’t have water getting stale and nasty in it. We got the tank monitor down to 0%, but it seemed like there was still water in it. So we took showers, I washed dishes three times, and we used water for cleaning. Eventually we did run out of water, but it took a lot longer than we thought it would. We finally figured out that since it always registers 81% when it’s full, there must have been 19% (or approximately 18 gallons) of water in it when it first showed 0%. Too bad the monitor doesn’t really tell us how much water is in the tank.
Saturday we met up with looper friends whom we first met last August when they were in a transient slip by us in Holland. We crossed paths with them several times along the rivers, but hadn’t seen them for quite a while. They arrived in Marathon last week, but are at a different marina. We had lunch, then checked out each other’s marinas. The facilities at their marina are beautiful, but they close everything at 6:30! The joke is that boaters’ midnight is 9 p.m., but closing at 6:30 is way too early. Happy hour is barely over at the bar at our marina at 6:30!
Sunday was lazy day until mid afternoon, when we hung out with our friends Keith and Gail on the back cockpit of their boat. Rich and Keith have become cigar smoking buddies and usually get together at least twice a week for a cigar. This time the wives were invited to hang out with them while they had a cigar – fun times. Keith was a delivery captain for many years and brought our boat from MN to us in MI, so he knows our boat. We like to remind him we’re still using the little 4 cup Mr. Coffee that he had to buy at Walmart in MN. The coffee pot was missing from the boat and he said the boat wouldn’t move unless there was a way to make coffee in the morning, so when he provisioned for the week of travel, he bought the coffee maker. It went on the list of expenses that he submitted and he left it on the boat. It still makes great coffee every morning!
Rich has an app called Wordscapes on his iPad that he has been playing for several days now. I kept watching him play and would sometimes make suggestions of words he might try, which he found annoying (I don’t know why 😊). So I put the app on my iPad and played it for WAY too many hours Saturday night and all day yesterday. I didn’t play as much today, but I’m only 45 levels away from him now – the challenge is to catch up and then pass him. It’s a very addictive game! And unfortunately the number of levels seems to go on forever. At some point I may have to remove it from my iPad.
No pictures of any of them, but there have been several boats docked by us overnight for the last few days that are obviously boats headed to the Miami boat show. They’re huge, look like new, and would definitely take a large lottery win to be able to afford for nearly everyone. They’re certainly fun to see!
Today I did some sewing and managed to get the blocks for two more months of the quilt I’m working on completed. There are 11 months of blocks and I only have three more to do.
