Thurs June 9-I swear we are TRYING to leave

Yup - I had Covid, and Rick got it three days later.  I was past contagion by the reunion, but Rick had to take a pass and stay back in Boulder to recoup and sleep.  Honestly, I think we would have both happily traded places!  I'm not a crowd person...

76 cousins, plus many Bradley-adjacent people (Colorado College had a huge bash as Ric was a physics professor/dean there), and four events over three days - you can bet I needed migraine meds by the end.  Then a bunch of the older cousins (my brother and I are the youngest cousins - the oldest is 20 years older -) came back to Boulder to see my dad; and it was emotional overload.  There was lots of singing (it's hard to explain) and weeping, and I was happy to fly back to Syracuse (via Atlanta so we could do yard work and check the mail). Actually we stayed in Atlanta a couple of extra days and just slept.  Covid/emotion had wrecked us.  My 89-year-old mother must have the constitution of a water buffalo - she has not gotten sick, even though we were around her a couple of days before we clued into the Covid-not-head-cold thing and moved out of her apt....

In Atlanta we picked up Canadian money - Rick is so prepared.  Isn't it pretty!  And with the Queen on it.  I mean, I'm not a fan of inherited privilege, but I do love the Royals!  It's like the best reality show ever...

While we were doing nothing in Atlanta, Blue Horizon was busy getting put in the water.  First onto a trailer and out of the warehouse

Then onto the sling and into the water.  I bet she was happy to get back in the water!!!

So many hands gently helping her.  Awwwwwww...

FINALLY we took the red-eye back to the boat.  And thus commenced a frenzy of cleaning and shopping.  This is my least favorite part of the boating experience, especially given the current price of things.  My friend, Dana (wife of Mike) left me a present for the boat, summing up exactly what this time feels like.  With pieces of the boat not working (due to inactivity over the winter) and having to buy tons of stuff (like a toilet brush and trashcan - what happened to the ones from last year????????????)

 We got so tired that we accidentally stopped by a liquor store.  Nowadays we don't drink during the week - but we stocked up for tomorrow! 

 

How about this for the weekend?!  No - we didn't buy it.

 

There are boaters all over the place, getting ready to go.

Who knows what challenges lie in store - right now the water pump won't turn off, diesel costs $6/gallon as opposed to $2.80 last year, and I can't remember anything about boating...

At least this is familiar!  Boat names...comedy gold, people!!!

Fingers crossed we leave tomorrow...