What an absolutely wonderful weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!Friday night, Bob and I took the boat over to Marina Del Isle to see Jennie & Shawn and Andy. We had dinner with them and then I went to bed early. I was totally exhausted from the busy week at work. Saturday morning, we got up early and walked to breakfast with Jennie & Shawn. After breakfast, it was off to the "Anchor Out" with the
Berea Power Squadron in Sandusky Bay! We had an AWESOME time!! I was a little worried about how I'd handle anchoring out and the bobbing up and down in the water. But, I'm happy to say that I didn't have to wear my
sea-sickness wristbands once! (Here's a photo of me swimming in the Bay!)
We arrived around noon on Saturday and ate a late afternoon lunch of cheese & crackers and other finger foods. There were 12 boats anchored together. (More photos coming soon!) We went for a swim around 4pm. The water was nice... once you got used to the cold. Almost everyone went swimming. Later that evening, we had a buffet line going on two different boats for dinner. It was great! Everyone hung out after dinner and retired for bed around 11pm... although some stayed up into the wee hours of the morning! Saturday night the wind shifted and began tossing the boats around, and the water made lots of noise against the hull of the boat. I wasn't too happy about that... but soon I was asleep and not worrying about it.
We got up around 9am on Sunday for coffee and pastries. Slowly, one by one the boats began to leave before lunch and we skillfully untied the boat and brought the other boats back together to form a line..... until finally it was Bob & I and Dave & Eileen Rickard. We spent most of the afternoon on their sail boat, just bobbing along and chatting about the Power Squadron. I told them that I've never been sailing and so they invited us back to their marine to spend the night and to go out sailing on Monday --- if the wind cooperated!
Unfortunately, there wasn't enough wind this morning to take their boat out for a sail... but, the trip wasn't for nothing. We might have found a new marina ---
Dock of the Bay Marina in Sandusky! It's a beautiful marina with beautiful views of the bay. We're weighing the pros and cons of moving there next year.
After a 45 minute boat trip back to our marina in Port Clinton, we packed up and headed for home for a quick change and then off to Bob's parents' house for his mom's birthday party!
It was certainly an action-packed weekend... but, an
extremely enjoyable one!!! I definitely needed the R&R and the good conversation with good company. This week is shaping up to be an extremely busy one too! 9am meeting Tuesday morning, 5am radio remotes at Jacobs Field on Thursday and Friday, games on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights (all of which are for the Indians collection days for the American Red Cross), plus Power Squadron meeting tomorrow night and my normal 9-5 days this week. Ugh!!! September has only begun....
AND... we received an e-mail over the weekend that The Rock Boat has been
CANCELLED!!!! Carnival is giving our ship to the US government for the next 6 months to house evacuees. (Wonderful that they're offering the ships to be used in such a way... not so good for us, but helping those people out is way more important)! So, we'll be receiving a full refund for the cruise part. I'm still working on the airfare part.
Now, I have 10 vacation days to use before the end of the year... any suggestions!!?!?!?!?!?!
