We went out on our second trip of the year! Deason was off on adventures with my Dad visiting grandparents, so we kidnapped my friend Kristin for the trip. Wasn't a far trip, we just wanted to get out. We motor-sailed over to Vineyard Haven, dropped the anchor to have some lunch and bask in the sun. It turned out to be our first swim of the year too. I had no intention of going in the water (the water temps were still in the low 60's from the poor May weather), but as I was scrubbing the crud off of the transoms with a cleaning brush, Dahlia decided that she wanted to help. The brush that I was using was of course too big for her hands so as she was cleaning it fell in the water. And because Chris had insisted that shouldn't give her the brush, refused to go in after it.
I have to say that it wasn't that bad once you were in. There was that initial "take you breath away" feeling, but by the time I had gotten the brush and gotten back to the boat it didn't feel that cold, granted I wouldn't say it felt warm either. And because Dahlia wants to do everything I am doing lately, she had to come in too. Although, she was in and out, in and out, in and out. Every time she got in, she would try and climb up my body trying to get out of the water saying cold, cold, cold...over and over again until she was out, then want to get back in as soon as she was back on the transom. After Dahlia came in Chris had to come in too, and we harassed Kristin so much that she finally went in just to quite us down!
Kristin is graduating from PA school in August, and hopefully she will be joining us on our trip down south before she has to start working.
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