Day 291: Saturday, June 22, 2013
Port to Port: Kingston, NY
Underway: 0:00 am Motor Off: 0:00 pm Miles Traveled: 0 Stayed At: Marina
Mile to Mile: It’s usually quiet and peaceful when I work on the blog sitting at one of the picnic tables up by the museum but it was a busy place this morning. Mimi got underway early as she slowly slid away from the dock leaving us all alone for a little while. The rowing club started showing up early too. They are taking some newbies out in the rowing sculls for their first time on the river. The four person boats are longer than most of the cruisers who dock here. I’m jealous when I see them almost silently gliding down the river as the sun is coming up.
Linda, the Museum Director, generously offered to give us a ride to Uptown so we met at 9 am and headed to the farmers market. We wandered around the market, took in a little history in the Stockade area of Uptown and surprise, surprise, found a classic bakery we couldn’t pass up. After some shopping for boat stuff and groceries, we tried to find a bus back to the marina. No bus for us so we hopped in a cab and dragged our heavy bags back home the easy way.
Docktails is at 5:00 pm (again) but we had enough time to try to squeeze in the Trolley Museum so we wandered a couple blocks over there only to find that not enough volunteers showed up to staff the museum (again) – only the trolley was running. I guess it wasn’t meant to be. Time for a nap, I guess.
Even though the number of cruisers has dwindled, new boats show up all the time so docktails is a great way to meet and greet our new neighbors. We broke up a little early so everyone could get their potluck dish ready for our little BBQ tonight – Eddy and Linda are cooking brats on the grill and everyone else is bringing something to share – it always seems to work out perfect and tonight was no exception. We had brats, hot dogs, fruit, potato skins, beans, O’Henry Bars and other goodies. Being stranded is fattening.
Tonight is movie night – Kingston is sponsoring movies in the park this summer and tonight is the first one at a park along the river just a few minutes away. Our new New Zealand friends on Kiwi II are parked stern-in at the marina there and they have a perfect view of the inflatable screen – that’s a first. We were all excited and enjoying the movie When Harry Met Sally but it was not to be. The movie started skipping and then a little while later it stopped altogether and they decided to start over with The Breakfast Club. By this time, half the movie was done and it was past cruisers midnight (10:00 pm), so the party broke up and we’ll have to try again. It was a bust but fun together time. Hopefully, we won’t be here for the next movie.
