Day 138: Sunday, January 20, 2013

Port to Port: Fort Myers Beach

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

First Things First: First time going to a movie on this trip: First time in probably 25 years going to a full priced movie (ouch).

Mile to Mile: While we were enjoying breakfast in the cockpit, our friends on OmarSea dinghied by – they are anchored in the channel under the bridge and this was there last trip to shore for the next 8-10 days. The Dad and three kids are leaving this morning sailing for the Panama Canal, the Galapagos, the southseas and New Zealand. What an amazing adventure and yet so calm – like they do this everyday. We wish them luck and safe travels – their website is www.Omarsea.com.

West Marine, Walmart, Target, Cici’s Pizza, a different Walmart and back to the original Walmart….after a slow start in the morning – we got back fairly late from the airport last night – we drove all over Fort Myers restocking our supplies and finding a few things we needed for the boat. We were a little inefficient but successful in finding most of the items on our lists. It took us awhile to process and stow everything on Aurora but we are ready for anything now.

We decided to go to a movie while we still had a car – they are still showing Skyfall, the “new” James Bond movie at a theatre about 25 minutes from the marina. We also have a craving for movie popcorn. The only problem is that the movies only showing is at 9:45 pm – way past Cindy’s normal bedtime. But when you are on an adventure like this, sacrifices need to be made so we wasted time until we needed to leave and didn’t fall asleep. I am now reminded why we enjoy matinees so much more – at our favorites theatre in Hopkins, we can see 3 movies (with popcorn) for the price of seeing one regular priced movie. The movie was a fun diversion and we had no trouble staying awake – we arrived back at the marina a 1:00 am – our latest night yet (luckily, Cindy was still on Arizona time so she stayed awake the whole time). We are becoming party animals (we’ll pay for it tomorrow).