Day 90: Monday, December 3, 2012

Port to Port: Hudson, Florida

Underway: 0:00 am      Motor Off: 0:00 pm      Miles Traveled: 00      Stayed At: Dock

First Things First: First time drinking Dark and Stormy’s – Cindy’s new favorite.

Mile to Mile: We slept like babies last night. We are tied up securely at a dock in a calm protected channel. Except for something nibbling on the stuff growing on our hull, all was quiet and good in our little world. We slept a little late and soon were having breakfast served to us at Bill and Kate’s Marina and Spa – eggs, bacon, fried potatoes and fresh coffee. (Kate took the day off from the Spa and went to her other job as an elementary school teacher). Can it get any better. Hmmm…maybe we are going to have engine problems soon – Boris just doesn’t sound right – we may have to stay a little longer to figure out what is wrong. Bill normally commutes to Chicago every week and is only home on the weekends. Well, we randomly picked a time when he is going to be mostly home for next month. What luck for us if this is a sign of things to come.

After breakfast, we did some power cleaning, organizing and shopping. Bill is in the power washer business so he has a few laying around so we borrowed one to wash Aurora, and, since I was having so much fun, I kept going and power washed his floating dock. Bill loaned us his truck (another big white pickup) to do some errands – Walmart is only a few miles away and get gas for Aurora.

After a very productive day, we treated our new friends to ebelskivers, bacon, fruit and orange juice/champagne mimosas for dinner. They introduced us to Dark and Stormies – a perfect mix of dark rum and ginger beer – an odd but strangely perfect preamble to brunch for dinner. Cindy has memorized the recipe. We ended the night watching Forever Young, a movie DVD we have with on the boat. Another day in paradise.