Mon Jan 20 - 23 In which we're BAAAAACCCCKKKKK!

 Brunswick Landing Marina Interval

Easy - don't everyone get all emotional on me.  We haven't been out of touch that long...  Well, it was longer than we intended it to be.  There was just one thing after another.  Thanksgiving, and then kids home from college and then Christmas. And doctor appointments - and at our age one appointment begets more, so there were several crowns had by all, a hernia fix, the ENT (cause why not, while we have insurance), a cardio guy just for fun and the dermatologist.

We FINALLY got back to Brunswick Marina Jan 20 to find that the birds had made liberal use of the upper deck.  So even tho no one could poop IN the boat while we were away, pooping ON the boat was in full swing.  And you know what that means - YES!  CLEANING!! So there were a couple days devoted to that, to eating at a Gullah breakfast place and getting a library card for Glynn County.  We are collecting libraries because we can get audio and e-books that way.. Oh, we also had someone dive under the boat to check the little water wheel that lets the speedometer tell us our speed. Normally Rick and I will do that kind of dive, but it was cold AF and so not going to happen on my watch.  That boy - he just lies awake a night worrying about things.  Kind of like when I was raising teenagers (and he was sleeping blissfully away).  He was right, tho.  The wheel was gunked up (that's the technical term we boaters use) and lo, we can now tell the difference between 7 and 8 miles per hour. 

As an aside, I know all y'all love your dogs, so you would be pleased that while we were in Atlanta they built a HUGE dog park at Bruswick Marina.  Yes - a rather large number of people have dogs along on their boats.  Which I'm sure is lovely and all, but having to get them to shore every 5 hours or so would be a PITA.  We can hardly get ourselves to shore...

I got a ukulele for Christmas as I want to be able to play with Claire, and that is one of my goals during my spare time on the boat (in between cleaning and freaking out).  While I was in Bruckswick I got to go to ukulele practice with my friend Jack, who belongs to an EIGHTY PERSON UKULELE CHOIR.  Who knew there were 80 people in the area who could even play ukulele.  It was so much fun!

Also, strolling around Brunswick, we came across this little fixer-upper so any of you can join us on the high seas...