June 21, 2010

Up and at em' early. We had to hit West Marine for our water pump. We had water, but it was a two person operation to get it. If I was doing the dishes, Deason had to work the switch. I would run the water until it would only trickle, then Deason would turn on the pump by flipping the switch. It worked, but was very tedious yelling "pressure" when you needed water while in the shower.

We liked Wrightsville, everything was fairly easy to get to. Once we moved the boat to the different anchorage it was more enjoyable. We did have a few people fly by on their power boats making sizable wakes. Then, there was this one prize moron who was taking his kids tubing in and around all the boats in the anchorage like we were orange traffic cones and he was having fun doing donuts around us. He was so clueless that he had the nerve to smile and wave at me. He might have gotten a clue when I didn't wave back and just put my hands on my hips, because he said something to his wife and sped off in another direction.

After West Marine and the grocery store, Chris had the new pump installed in no time. We hauled the anchor and made the 1pm Wrightsville beach bridge opening. After that we had two other bridges to go through with "on the hour" openings, we made good time to one of them and had to wait on another. Overall a pretty good day, enough wind to have the jib out.

Since we left late, we ended up getting to our planned anchorage around 7pm. Needless to say, we were all tired. It then took 6 tries to finally set the anchor, it just kept dragging. We set the anchor alarm on the GPS and hoped that it would be loud enough to wake us in the event that we dragged again.

Aside from the anchor dragging, the kids seem to be enjoying this lifestyle. Deason builds replica lego models of all the boats he likes, and Dahlia is growing up faster that we would like her to. The boat doesn't seem to have delayed her in anyway when it comes to trying to walk, she can stand on her own now and the movement of the boat doesn't even knock her down. She probably has it the easiest out of any of us due to her low center of gravity. We will however be getting safety netting ASAP!