And Happy New Year!!

After a good visit in Tennessee with family and friends, we rented a car and headed back to the boat. It was good to be back, though of course we miss the family. The weather was warm enough on the first day back to sit by the pool (but the wind was a bit nipply). It takes a while to get everything put away and visit the grocery store and get all systems running again, but it sure is nice to hit this great v-berth mattress again! And it doesn't take long to get used to NOT wearing a coat.

There was a New Year's celebration downtown, and even a ball drop at midnight, but we went first to visit with Greg and Lori and Dan and Tara and had such a great celebration on their boat that we forgot to leave. They'd moved the boat across the marina to back up to Mattisons, so we had a live band performing for the party. Good company and great refreshments, and we even stayed up past midnight! Rumor has it that the cops were called to a party on the same dock, but we didn't have on handcuffs when we woke up so we're pretty sure we weren't involved.
































The weather has been less than tropical for the past week, but there's snow again in Tennessee, so we're not complaining. Now back to work on the boat to get ready to head south.......