This past weekend was our first weekend of no sports or other kid activities (pretty much all sports though) in over 10+ months! Caleb's team had his team party Friday night but Saturday morning we (after sleeping in!) made our way to the marina. It almost felt weird to have no organized sports to go to all weekend long! We are definitely looking forward to a great summer on the water with hopefully some fun cruising and gunkholing very, very soon. For now though...well...a relaxing 2 nights on the boat is just what the doctor ordered!
As soon as the anchor was set the kids were ready to start goofing off!
Within moments of dropping anchor and getting the dinghy launched, Caleb was already making himself at home in the water:
And Daisy was walking the decks to make sure all was in order:
Evening on it's way after a fun day of swimming and playing:
Our favorite part of the day....relaxing on the bridge, feet propped up, oil lamp casting it's soft glow:
It looks like we need to get a fun day boat. We tried pulling the kids on floats from the back of the dinghy but a 6hp engine doesn't quite pull kids through the water super fast! Still, pretty fun times on Sunday afternoon....
I also squeezed in some more boat projects as I am trying to get some of the smaller stuff done each time I am up at the boat. There was a big open hole at the flybridge helm where I believe a stereo used to be. I cut a piece of wood to fit, routered the edges, stained and varnished. I installed the fishing pole holder as it fits the mounting bracket I have for the flatscreen I am using for the flybridge helm GPS monitor and also mounted the depth finder/fish finder on it.
And one of the last exterior projects that still needed to be done...installing the teak hand rails on port and starboard down the side decks.
My next projects are installing the inverter, running another 110v outlet up to the flybridge, and thanks to the storms and tornados the other week, getting a new bimini installed. Hopefully our sign guy gets the name installed this week as well. We are looking forward to next weekend as it is not only Memorial Day weekend but Friday is also the last day of school for the kids! As some of you may know, we have home schooled our children up until this past January when we put them in the local public school. The teachers are very nice but we were less than thrilled with the academics and the social environment. We are leaning towards going back to home schooling again which could translate into some BOAT SCHOOLING. :) Seriously, our kids, by and large, seem to truly love being out on the water with us. I think it is a combination of quality time with mom and dad, time in nature, time together, etc. but our family seems to be happiest together on the water. We hope this translates to a truly once in a lifetime summer together aboard. Right now I think the plan is to enjoy Memorial Day weekend on the boat, then drive down to FL for a week or so of relaxing, then back up to the boat until who knows when....could be a week, could be a month, could be more. We'll see how it goes and just go day by day and see what God seems to be saying and leading us towards. Our plans are always subject to change so we'll just see what happens. Even if this summer just translates into us anchoring out at the local coves and swimming every weekend with friends and family that will be just fine with me.
One last word about this past weekend....if you recall from my last post just previous to this one over Mother's Day, I wrote about the swallows trying to build a nest in our exhaust. We anchored out in the same cove this past weekend and believe it or not, the same birds spent the weekend trying to build another nest in our exhaust! We think they must have some kind of mental issues or something....out of all the places we can't figure out why they seem to think that an exhaust thru-hull is the #1 best spot to build a nest!
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