We celebrated Christmas with some of the same traditions - ONE present to be opened Christmas Eve and turkey.
The local grocery store, Maxwell's had a deal on last Tuesday buy one turkey, get one ham for free!!! Of course, I had no room in our tiny fridge but I couldn't pass it up. I bought both frozen solid and we took everything home from Marsh Harbour to Treasure Cay in the rental truck we got to drive mom and dad to the airport.
I cooked the ham on Wednesday and invited Sandra and Sebastian from Jamoco and Ken and Sarah from Skedaddle to dinner and it was a great feast and very festive. Sandra also brought French chocolate truffles. Yum.
We decided to run to Marsh Harbour on Christmas Eve because the Jib Room at Marsh Harbour Marina hosted a potluck for cruisers and they supplied turkey and ham.
The boys and Scott did a dive on Thursday on a shipwreck and were totally pumped. We had a terrific sail on Friday and sang Christmas carols as we dipped around 6 knots on a great reach into Marsh Harbour. We took a dock (thanks to some Christmas $$$ from Uncle Gary) at the marina and we're here for a few nights because of the blow today (Boxing Day) of 30 to 35 knots.
Santa still made his way to our boat and the kids got lots of dive stuff and snorkeling gear and art supplies, etc. It was a good day. We missed family and friends, to be sure, but as Molly said, we were making new memories for our family here on a gorgeous day. By the way, my mac and cheese was the hit of the day, if I do say so myself. I also made a great coffee cake for the morning along with gingerbread. Maggie on Water Hobo made terrific shortbread so we didn't suffer for treats. Elizabeth also received a few small gifts from our new friends here, much to her delight.
It's blown and hard here today and our skype connection isn't as great as we had hoped to chat with family back home.
Still, we are sitting cozy at the Jib Room, playing cards, watching football and enjoying the company of our fellow cruisers.
I'm doing two loads of laundry (now that the water pressure is back up) and trying to get motivated to clean up the boat from Christmas festivities.
3 comments:
We missed you so on Christmas but had 2 puppies to try and fill the gap.they didnot make as good of music in our jam time .We missed your guitar and violin .Everyone was disappointed that skype didnot work but we saw you a little.
Hope you got my email of earlier this week -- we were thanking you for the Christmas gifts you sent.
Hope kids (or Scott & Lisa) can use the Itunes cards.
What are you doing today to ring in the New Year? We have 18 of us here for Chinese food, then games and maybe a jam session in the basement.
It's back to school in a couple days. And I need to get up to speed on Office 2010 as we are switching over at my school. Becca is struggling to create a game for school project with a gaming program that isn't too user-friendly.
When does Reg fly home? Does he have a direct flight?
We took a Mystery Tour to see an exhibit of the Titanic which is on at the museum downtown. Kevin's mom planned this with all the grandkids and since it happened to be on my birthday, Mom and Dad came as well. I'm glad you folks are not in those icy waters.
That's all for now. Love to all of you, Shauni
Happy New Year & Best Wishes from your Caliedoscope Buds
Nice to see you LIVING THE DREAM!
Angie and Mark
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