We had an amazing December break in Kingston. Christmas was celebrated at our house with Evelyn, Caroline, my brother and his family and my sister and her family! It was a blast!! We also saw Mark’s Dad plus all our siblings! It was a very fast 3 weeks and we certainly managed to get a lot done in that time!
It’s definitely good to be back at the boat. We arrived on Dec. 29 after a 2 day drive. For the last part of that drive through South Carolina and the top of Georgia, we were stuck in super slow traffic. It added about 3 hours to our trip and made us arrive in the dark! I hate ladders in the daylight so you can imagine how much fun it was to scale the ladder in the dark.
The boat was in great shape but still had cleanup work to be done. We also had to provision for the roughly 16 weeks we’ll be gone. Shopping for that much food can be fun. Our first provision day was Friday and we started with Aldi (it’s a discount grocery store that has amazing prices), then moved onto Costco. After our first day, we’d spent about $800 US! Our freezer was stuffed full of all kinds of yummy meats, cheeses, fish, etc. On day 2 (Saturday), we went to the ABC liquor store, Walmart, and Aldi again! I can honestly say our boat is full and we won’t go hungry!!
This season we have several visitors coming aboard!! Margie and Matthew will be with us somewhere around Jan. 10 and Mark’s brother John and his wife Sadhana will do a day visit around January 14. Evelyn and Caroline have a 2 week vacation with us from February 27 – March 13! Can’t wait for all these visit.
Tomorrow (Monday) the boat will be back in the water and we’re hoping to head out for Vero Beach on Tuesday or Wednesday. We’ll take our time moving south – our slip reservation at Vero Beach Municipal Marina doesn’t start until Jan. 10. Unfortunately while we’re moving south, we won’t have wifi so the next blog post will be delayed until we reached the marina at Vero Beach.
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 