2/27/15
Marathon FL
Posted by Bill

First, happy 2nd birthday to our granddaughter Caedance!

We love you and miss you, as well as all of our kids and grandkids. I can’t believe she is 2 already. We are bummed about missing out in the celebration.

There hasn’t been much exciting going on here. The weather has been great and we have been doing work in the mornings and then relaxing in the afternoons, as it has been getting hot (sorry northern friends). Our new batteries are installed and it looks like we could be getting to use our friends car for a few days starting next Monday. We plan to take the old batteries back to Walmart and then do a Costco run in Miami. Other than that we have been working on teak refinishing and our taxes (that sucks), thinking we will attempt a run to the Bahamas in the first weather window in March. Right now it doesn’t look good for the next 2 weeks, but we have been getting ready. We got a sim card for my iphone that will work there, giving us voice and data, and we bought our Bahamian courtesy flag. For those who don’t know, when you get to a foreign country in your boat, you fly a yellow flag – called a Q flag or quarantine flag – from the starboard (right side of the boat) spreader until you clear customs and immigration, at which point you fly the courtesy flag and take the Q flag down. You must fly the courtesy flag until you depart. If the weather window doesn’t open pretty soon, we’ll probably just start moving north…very slowly…as we need to be above the Florida line before hurricane season, and we are also renting a house with the kids and grandkids at Kure Beach NC the first week in June.

You folks up north…keep warm. We are not missing the mess that you are dealing with. We are missing all the people though. Looking forward to seeing everyone on our next visit.