The Story of guy and gal!

Over 250 folks served yesterday for Turkey Day.  It was well done and well attended.  Pretty warm to be eating such a huge meal but we managed.  HAHAH.

Wow…….the first few weeks of our return to our floating home   has been pretty exciting!   We made it back into the water without any incidences and most things are going well.   It is amazing how well everything aboard survived   the last six months intense   heat; I found a couple of candles that had melted, no bugs anywhere.   Claes was frustrated with his little outboard for the dingy as even after leaving it well serviced would   not run to his specifications.   (Don’t think I have ever seen a motor that has stumped him yet but this little 2.5 horse Yamaha is being really finicky).   Sea Otter Jimmey, a fella here discovered a small little plug in the carb that was missing and voila it is working for   1500 pesos.   Since our dollar is doing really well that was a pretty good price.  

Just a quick little hello to check in and let you all know that we are well and all is going pretty well. Today we are heading in to watch the parade so hopefully will have some pictures later today. Turn your Skype on in the morning and or in the evening if you want to chat with us.  We have internet but it does work when it chooses.  HAHAH   just like everything else here in this lovely part of Gods' world. (We are not complaining as we heard that there is SNOW  in our home land.)  Sorry about that. Talk to you later. Lue and Claes

and these two are floating and sitting pretty in  Marina Singlar putting the final touches on our boat. Worked hard today and got the sails on and up and washed the exterior decks.  The heat does impede the progress but we stopped mid day and went to Walmart..............yep.  Finished our provisioning and returned the rental car.  We are both feeling tired at the end of the day and feeling muscles we forgot we had.  Life in Canada was good this past summer but we did lose some muscle mass sitting around.  Wont be long before we are in shape again and sailing in The Sea--Cortez that is. We do eat differently here as well.  The neighbour brought over some fresh, just made corn tortillas tonight and Claes stopped at a side walk stand and brought some fresh vegies home.  Hmmm good.

Kinda funny saying that as we are still on "the hard"  cement that is.  Yesterday was a very hot day but productive.  Now we have clean clothes that are all organized and tucked away.  Oops........I guess The Captain was right, I did bring a lot of stuff.  Now the exercise will be to sift and sort again to see what we really require and filter a few items out the door. There is a Swap meet next week and also the Club Cruiserio and our little church are working towards Christmas.  There is a meeting for volunteers on Tuesday so I will venture forth to see what help I can be. I did click on the web site last night and read all about the Project for kids.  I am rather pumped and will keep you posted.  If you are interested here is the link: http://careforkidslapaz.com/Index.html Must get ready for church and then back to work...................Captain has to install the ground plate today and begin installing our beautiful new SSB radio...........

Having said that we would like to point you to the tabs at the top of the page where you will find a number of choices for your information and enjoyment.  Just click on them and see what we are up to.  Hoping that you are all back on board with us as we begin our second season living aboard our beautiful 37 foot ketch. THE WHITE SHELL II