While Playing the Waiting Game...

What do you do when you have been on anchorage long enough to become one of the locals? Why bumper boats of course! When helping a fellow boater return to his anchorage without a working engine, a few of us got our skiffs up alongside and offered a shove. As with any fellow boater, taking things too seriously, especially life, is just not advised. So with the task at hand a little play was in order. Neil led the way with an overly exaggerated approach in his skiff by the breakwater complete with hooting and hollering much to all of our amusement. I believe it was a Brittish accent mixed with a bit of “Scotty” from Star Trek and some talk about “I just can’t do it Cap’n. I don’t have the powah.” Haha. Afterwards I believe there was some bumper boating going on…You really had to be there.


For payment of favor an old wind board, just the board, was offered to a few helpers. When Stewart heard this he was thrilled! (He was a helper too!). He has wanted a paddle board for a while and although it is a little different the concept is doable. Katie was pretty excited also. They both hopped on and took turns and within an hour they both looked like old pros. Soon they were both on it together and soon Daisy was looking at it like, “Hey, when do I get to go?” So Neil hopped in the skiff with Daisy and they towed Stewart around for a while. (Later she can go for a paddle but not yet!) Kids are just so good at making that whole balance thing look easy. No one fell in and Neil and I decided we would try it out when the water is a little bit warmer as we KNOW we are going in!














The next day the kids and Neil went rock fishing while I stayed and did a few things (mainly playing with puppys…haha) and ended up with a few catches, one of which got Neil’s hand pretty good for a stinging time of 120 minutes but it was not as bad as it looked.**see pics** It has been noted that we need to get a new “un escapable” bait bucket before the next time. Hey at least this one did not get away and it was pretty yummy!










Today we took the little ones (Foster and Winnie) into the Vet. for their first set of shots and Micro Chipping. Thanks to our great friends Joyce and Barry toting us around it made for a fun trip, at least for the humans…Puppy report says that Foster is a whopping 4 pounds and Winnie is just at 2 pounds. There is still a question of whether or not he is part Lab. or maybe will be renamed "Clifford".haha! He is still a little sore and is not sure if he will go for one of those “rides” again. Winnie is not too bothered but she is a tough little bird, even if she is just under 2 cans of corn in weight. I did treat them at dinner so not to worry.(Joyce) I had no chicken handy, but I did give out some ham…and bottled water of course!Now they are plumb tuckered out!







Things are moving slowly. We are going to wait until next week before we head south. Slow and Steady. We are still not done with “business” but will figure it out one way or another. We wanted to go hit a few neat places on the way down but if we doddle too much we will miss out and have to head straight for San Diego.







In the meantime we are enjoying our time spent with each other and having fun.

Speaking of which there is a costume party for the start of the Baja…suggestions???? Send em my way!