Day 288: Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Port to Port: Kingston
Underway: 0:00 am Motor Off: 0:00 pm Miles Traveled: 0 Stayed At: Marina
First Things First: First time making ableskivers for 20+ people – a new record. (And we cooked them on our cookstove for the first time – worked perfectly).
Mile to Mile: Our only scheduled activity today was brunch at 11:00 am. On a Wednesday. Cindy is making ableskivers. We can’t miss that.
I got up early (the sun is a very reliable natural alarm), again (sorry Cindy). The blog didn’t magically appear but it wrote itself fairly easily. I need some more chemicals before I can finish cleaning the dinghy so that project is on hold. Cindy started early prepping all the ingredients and equipment needed to make ableskivers for 20+ people (yikes).
The locks are starting to open so several boats from the two marinas here left this morning including Slow Churn (bye guys, see you in Brewerton). No brunch for you. Ron and Linda at the museum helped us get everything ready – they put table cloths on the picnic tables, provided coffee and rolls (thanks for the gift boxes of cookies too) and helped set everything up. We got Cindy set up early to be sure everything was working good before everyone arrived. Luckily, every batch turned out perfect and they were a huge hit. The other boaters soon started arriving with egg bakes, cinnamon streusel cake, bisquits, oyster gravy, fruit bowls, pastries, grits and a dozen other brunch treats. What a feast. We love brunch so we are in heaven. And even here we get to meet and hear stories from new people from Australia or Wisconsin or who knows where. What a life.
Brunch was a huge success (and we even had a few ableskivers left over for breakfast tomorrow for Spiritus and us) and it was time to get some other projects done. While Eddy and I took a circuitous 1.5 hour bus tour of Kingston while trying to get to the mall to get some essentials, the girls walked around lower town getting their errands done. Eddy and I were successful and decided to walk back to the marina – it was faster and we needed to burn off brunch and make room for a few extra calories from boat-tails.
We whipped up a few snacks and drinks and sat on Spiritus’ fly bridge enjoying the warm sunshine and great company as the sun slowly set over the canal. What a wonderful day. We all headed over to the workshop and joined a large group of locals listening to a presentation and slide show by a local professor on the history of Roundout which is the name of the area we are staying in by the water. It reminded me of the history of Lake Minnetonka and many other places we have visited along the waterways of the Great Loop. Tomorrow is another day.
