We arrived in St. Michael's on Saturday night and came into the St. Michael's Harbour Marina Tuesday.
Scott's parents, Jack and Molly Marr made the drive down in about 12 hours from Jarvis, Ontario and surprised us Monday night just as we finished Thanksgiving dinner.
It was 81F and a lovely night. We've had great weather and a great time, except maybe for Scott who has worked steadily since Tuesday on installing the new fridge. Scott's parents drove us around to some hardware stores and we purchased insulation and other bits for other upcoming projects.
We did a bit of homeschooling today before going to the Chesapeake Maritime Museum, a great collection of buildings with really top of class displays on the blue crab lifecycle and on the oyster industry which was so formative for the area.
We also learned about the ecological issues facing the bay with overfishing, overdevelopment, pollution and increasing erosion and rising sea levels. Fascinating. I baked some pizzas in the oven in an effort to use up our groceries in the now-warming coolers. It is getting cooler now, with the temperature dropping to the low 40sF.
We're enjoying Grandma and Grandpa, particularly the homemade cookies, muffins and pumpkin pie.
Tomorrow we head to Washington for a day trip to the city as it's only about two hours by car.
Poor Scott is still installing the fridge (Day 2) and is troubleshooting bits for the new solar panel installation he hopes to do next week. I'm cleaning up behind him, homeschooling, cooking and scrubbing decks and other bits, just so no one thinks I'm turning into a sloth. I also did three loads of laundry here at the marina. The downtown laundry here in swishy St. Michael's was $3.25 a load of wash plus a quarter for every 5 minutes of drying!!!! OK, so it had TVs,solar power, etc. but really,too high priced for this budget conscious traveller.
Scott's parents will be here until about Saturday and we are thoroughly enjoying their visit.
We hope to eventually get to Soloman Island sometime this week, about 40 miles away.
Grandma and Aidan are having a big cribbage match and things may get tough on this boat if Aidan wins.
Stay tuned
1 comment:
to let the world know grandma did win the cribbage match over a tough opponent but only by a squeek.But a win is a win.
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