How interesting that I just figured out that today is our 200th day on our adventure! New Years Eve! Captain Bob told me yesterday that he saw the advertisement for New Years Eve celebration at the local "club" on the beach here.......party starts at ll:00 and runs till 4:00. I said "great, we can be home for dinner and Wheel and Fortune" ... Guess that shows how old we have gotten! 2018 is a big year for one of us.....Medicare...If I can only figure it out with plans A, B, C, D ,E, F etc...drove me to drink yesterday.
We do plan to go to a movie and a snack this afternoon and then come home before all the crazy's come out. We are STILL here in Panama City Beach. I even bought a PCB sweatshirt and we are thinking of claiming residency! (the sweatshirt is needed for warmth, and we never thought we would still be here into 2018..) but remember, the first rule of looping....NO schedule.
We just got back from the tundra of Michigan....at least that what it felt like there, with the extremely cold temps. We had airline tickets in and out of Tampa, FL, assuming that we would have the boat there ......well, we took a rental car to Tampa and flew to Michigan and back and then drove the car back to PC Beach where we WAIT for a window to cross the gulf. OF COURSE there were at least 2 opportunities while we were gone for Christmas! We also missed one at Thanksgiving time trip.....but would we have missed the wonderful holidays spent with family...of course not.
So, now that we have NO schedule from here on out (other than plans to be in Key West on Feb 1)....we can wait it out. Some have asked why you don't just go.....well, it is a 20 hour crossing, mostly done at night and in the dark (no street lights in the ocean) so you have to wait until the perfect, or nearly perfect window of flat water and light winds and preferably good moon light. We almost left the night we drove back (7 hours) from Tampa, but the drive and flight were pretty tiring, and we would have been alone and starting pretty late....so we passed on that window..... " the sources we depend on for weather advise" are now saying nothing till NEXT weekend. Guess we will keep the rental car.....a weeks rental has turned into 6 weeks! By then we can plan to meet up with some buddy boats. I asked Bob this morning where he thought we would be next year on New Years Eve.....and then added...."assuming we get out of here!" haha. But as previously mentioned, this is not a bad place to be, although, it too has been cold....although NO SNOW.
After 2 weeks spent with 3 of the most active grandsons (and smartest, cutest, etc....) and one beautiful 6 week old granddaughter we can wrap ourselves in the warm memories that we made.....Grandpa Bob and I even had 2 whole days with Josie by ourselves, as mom Molly filled in at her job between the holidays. Grandpa did especially well with diapers, and Grandma with rocking, but we both were pretty tired by the end of the day....that is why God gives you children while you are still young, and grandchildren later, when you can hand them back and go to bed! At least the grand boys are old enough to help themselves and even wait on us most of the time. (I love it). We are truly blessed......So we will be thinking of those and all the blessings we have been given, when the clock strikes midnight and a new year begins....(assuming we are awake, if not, we will dream of them)
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL.....SEE YOU IN 2018
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