New Friends and Cool People

We are three weeks into our journey and continue to meet a number of new friends and cool people.  Our dock neighbors: Ann and Dave: This couple is in the uber cool category.  They circumnavigated the world on a 7 year journey and are saving money to venture out again.  Both are very laid back…

What a Visit with Marc’s Padres!

So how often can a woman say that she really likes her in-laws?  Well this First Mate can.  And wow what a fun time we just had with Marc’s parents, Ken and MaryEllen (Mel).  Ken and Mel are in St. Pete Beach for the winter and jaunted down here to Fort Lauderdale for a few…

Camden: Captain Dinghy

I had soooo much fun driving the dinghy yesterday.  I could only go slow because the sign said I had to go really slow.  We had to blow up the dinghy more – Daddy did that.  The dinghy and my motorboat had a race – Daddy was the driver of the dinghy and I drove…

Our First Week Under our Belt

This past week has flown by.  It’s hard to believe we’ve been on the boat for nine days now.  Even though it’s next to impossible to get things done on a boat when you have three kids, Marc and I have actually managed to get some items checked off the “to do” list.  And the…

Goals and first days …..

We are now 3 days into this journey as we moved aboard the boat this weekend.  We are having a great time and all are adjusting well.  We do need to watch our water usage as we have been using a ton.  Homeschooling is going great and Jen is doing an amazing job as the…

Joellen and Cam: We Have Pets!!!

  Today Camden and I got pets.  We each got two Hermit Crabs.  I named mine Crabby and Hermie.  Cam named his Bert and Bob. We had to present are resons to are parents why we should have Hermit crabs – Here we are presenting are 7 resons — 1-They don’t poop and smell like cats 2-Easy to take…

All the fixins……

–boat fixins that is — There are more projects that we will likely do (ie – adding watermaker and dodger) and likely additional things will break but hey, that just gives us more stuff to blog about — So when we bought the boat and went through the survey, we identified the items that we…