The start of our celebration weekend

Wow, our new home continues to impress! Saturday our marina hosted a carnival-like party, complete with bounce houses, tattoos, and food. We hit that up after spending the morning at the pool and that alone would have made for a great day, but that night there were fireworks! We walked about 3 minutes from the boat and sat on a grassy knoll to enjoy front row seats to a great show. The kids loved it!

Saturday we got underway and headed to Oxford.  The picture says it all...

Awesome

After anchoring in Fatty Cove we decided to try out a first on Lehe Paine--swimming from the boat!!!  It was AWESOME!  It was so nice...the water helped cool us all off and once the kids got into it, they were jumping non-stop!  There were some jellyfish around, but we kept an eye out and no one got stung.  

SO MUCH FUN!

 After dinner we made it into Oxford for a little ice cream, but a quick check of the radar told us it was time to get back to the boat.  Oh my!  Minutes after we got the kids on the boat, the wind kicked up something vicious and in no time we were dragging anchor!  Agh!  This had never happened before and I freaked out, almost losing my hand trying to hold onto the rode instead of letting it go when I should have.  After a few frantic minutes, letting out all our chain, and settling back in much closer to a few of our neighbors, we were set.  Once again, many lessons learned.  Much to our surprise the town still had fireworks, though Mother Nature almost stole the show.  During one big, brilliant firework a bolt of lightning shot through it and made for the most amazing mix of nature's and man's art.

It is so great to be back out on the water!

The new neighborhood

We are loving our new life here on the east coast!  There is so much to do during the summer and living at the marina has been like living at a resort.  We've checked out the restaurant, Mango's, a few times and love the food, the beach has been AWESOME, the pool just opened and we're all big fans, there are plenty of places to take walks and play, they've been showing movies on the beach on the weekends, and they threw a great BBQ/bonfire last night.  Seriously just loving it!


Enjoying her milk, island-style, at Mango's




Ah...the beach




This place knows how to party!



My new A/C guy?

Woo hoo, we have air conditioning!  I am so proud of Frank!  Now we will survive the summer.  However this puts me in an odd position...as the daughter of a career HVAC guy I've always called Dad our a/c guy, but now Frank hooked up the boat, so...  Who cares?!?!  I love both of my a/c guys!  :)

It's getting hot in here!

Ok, it's bloody uncomfortable!  My loving hubby has spent months learning about, purchasing parts for, and installing parts of the new air conditioning system for the boat.  He's busting his butt and is so close to being done--thank goodness!  I had no idea idea it would be so freaking hot and humid here in mid-May.  On a good note, the beach near our dock is usually pretty empty so we've been cooking dinner down there and cooling our toes in the water. 

We're home (again)!

Moved into the new slip at Herrington Harbour South today.  Frank moved the boat solo while the kids and I waited at the dock with lines in hand.  May take a bit to get used to the fixed docks here on the east coast.  It's nice to be home!