time flys when its sunny outside

It seems as if I have forgotten about blogging now that the sun has come out in full force. I do apologize for leaving you in the dark. It has been a daunting couple of weeks what with Neil's string of doctors visits followed by our trip to Los Angeles again yesturday. I got sick on the way home..I think it was the alfalfa sprouts that only I ate and since Katie came with us and Stewart stayed home, we said, "alright, let the 50 hours of logged drivers ed begin." We put her behind the wheel and even though she has only done some around town driving, she drove nearly 60 miles home on good ole I-5. She did rather well but since the rental we got had superior shocks we had to keep telling her to slow down as 80 mph (the speed of the traffic flow) seemed a bit too much ..yet quite normal for down here. These people in SoCal are leadfoots! Neil and I were very proud and so was she. It did make us feel like a bunch of old farts(ha ha) as our daughter was now in the drivers seat and  I had mixed emotions about it; mostly pride. It looks like we may need to take a few more trips back up there in order to get all the information the QME needs to finalize things for Neil. In the meantime we have been thoroughly enjoying the lovely sunshine we have had over the last few weeks. We got in a few good sailing days. One of them was with the kid's new friends Meil and Summit, who are just a little bit younger than Katie and Stewart. They are new to living on the water and even though they are on a sailboat, had not ever really been sailing before. So we took them for a cruise around the bay and out into the ocean. We had hoped to see some dolphins but instead had to settle for another submarine and a few seals. This time we got a better picture of the sub which I think was either part of a tour or some sort of private charter. This was not the same submarine, but still very cool nonetheless. You would almost certainly never see anything like that up north. The "new" kids got to run the helm, and pull lines. They sat on the bow and dangled their toes over the edge and caught a few choice waves. It was a lot of fun and cute to see their reactions to everything that we have become so used to as "no big deal." I am realy starting to fight the "sailing bug." So much of me wants to go go go, yet I know it is not time yet. So once again I will enjoy the poop out of our little day and weekend trips, not taking for granted one second that I have an amazing life on the water and I would not trade it for anything in the world...except, maybe, for a bigger boat!  haha.