We arrived in St. Joseph MI a week ago, expecting to stay one night, and we’re still here. It now looks like we may finally get to leave Friday, but we’re not placing any bets on it. The dinghy motor still needs to be checked out and a new fuel transfer pump installed, hopefully all done by the end of the day tomorrow. The good part is that by the time we get to head to Chicago the open waters will have waves of 1 foot or less.

We’ve been busy doing housekeeping things on the boat. Rich measured and marked the anchor rode yesterday, made two trips to a local marine store, cleaned the outside of the boat – not very exciting stuff.

I made new covers for 4 pillows -a bit of color and hopefully no more feathers working their way out of the pillows! And the ability to make new covers justified my insistence on bringing a sewing machine along.

Yesterday when I headed up to the marina bathroom I discovered it was really foggy – 20 minutes later the fog was completely gone!

We’ve been eating most of our meals on the boat, but decided to have dinner tonight at the hotel restaurant. We split some appetizers so we would have room for dessert – and what a great dessert we had! Triple chocolate mousse cake with whipped cream laced with mini chocolate chips. I forgot to take a picture of what it looked like when it was placed before us, but here’s what it looked like when we were done 😂

After dinner we headed to an outside area that had two fire pits going. It reminded us of our fire pit in Lafayette.

Tomorrow we wait for a phone call telling us they’re bringing our dinghy back and installing the new pump – keeping our fingers crossed we actually get the call.