December 10, 2011

The Internet here has been pretty inconsistent, especially on the weekends when more people are home using all of the bandwidth. So, I have been unable to keep up with the blog and emails as much as I normally would. We have also had a busy couple of days spending time with our new friends.
On Friday they braved the weather while it was raining to come over to visit our boat. They got soaking wet playing tag around the boat. The kids didn't seem to mind at all.
Yesterday, we went to their house to play, and then we took the three oldest girls back with us to the boat so they could swim and kayak. It was so nice to have kids over to play and enjoy the boat with Deason. They also played monopoly or part of a monopoly game before they all went Christmas caroling. Deason got to go with them for caroling, we would have joined them as well, but Dahlia was so excited that the girls were over that she refused to nap until she pretty much couldn't stand anymore and she crashed at 5pm for the night.
Oh, we had a little scare the other morning. A 46ft charter catamaran came in and anchored in White Sound where we are. We are towards the SW corner of the anchorage, and they were pretty much in the center when they set the anchor. It was calm that day, it was the day we went over to the beach, but around 6am the following morning when the front moved over us the wind picked up to 20 knots from about 5 knots. Deason woke up and said that the catamaran was now right next to us. They had dragged over 200 yds, and ended up right next to us. They were a little too close to comfort, but luckily the wind wasn't more from the East or they would have been right on top of us. The funny thing was, when they woke up, they just looked around...I am assuming they realized they weren't in the same spot....but they didn't let out anymore scope on their anchor. Then they left the boat, they didn't even seem the least bit concerned that they had just dragged. I guess when it is not your boat you don't really care what happens to it, but in the future we won't be getting too close to charter boats in an anchorage.