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| the floats were aplenty |
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| neat floats |
While Carl was in Florida Leslie went to the Floatapolusa
in Brewers Bay. It was a great time with lots of funny floats and of course
lots of splashing around and drinks.
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| Carl the new baker! |
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| They had some neat floats |
Carl started to bake croissants and breakfast goodies,
then we started to get ready to end the season. We went to St John for 4th
of July as our last big hurrah before heading to the BVI to get ready to haul
out for the season.
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| biggest butterfly ever |
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| some people were scary |
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| there were a lot of dancers |
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| the USA group |
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| Leslie dances with the Zulus |
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| fireworks were great! |
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| who knew there was an air filter to change |
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| We relax with a game of Dark Tower |
We started to do our end of season routine change the
fuel and oil filters back flush the engines, clean and the boat and put things
away. Once we hauled out it was wax the boat, put away the engines, take down
and tie up the sails, secure the dinghy and outboard, and strap down the boat. I finished my rebreather certification with a dive on the Rhone. We caught a ferry to St Thomas and stayed a
night in the hotel before catching the plane back ending the season.
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| Our last stay at Maho Bay |
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I was underwater 100 minutes and it
said I had a 100 minutes more I could
stay down. I only stayed 150 minutes |
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| The side of the Rhone |
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| These fish loved me |
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| We have a nice ceremony for Mom |
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We are packed up in St Louis and
ready to go! |
We traveled a lot helping our son Aron move from Tampa to
his new posting at the Pentagon and then heading to Cody Wyoming for a
celebration of life and burying of ashes for Leslie’s mother who died this past
March. We went to St Louis to pack up
our stuff as our son Eric had sold his house, bought a 47’ cat and took his
family sailing.
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| The total eclipse was awesome! |
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| Carl backs the truck up to our new digs |
On the way to Florida we were able to watch the full
eclipse in a Walmart parking lot. We bought a place in the pan handle of
Florida so we could stow our stuff and have a place to stay now that Eric was
sailing. Carl drove the truck from St Lois and we unloaded our stuff in our new
place. We had only just unpacked our stuff when Eric came by to drop off his
Bronco and some stuff for us to store
for him. I guess turnabout is fair play.
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| Eric's stuff and his Bronco "Robin" at our new shop |
We watched with batted breath as Irma started coming down
the Leeward Islands with a direct hit on the BVI. Then Maria came through and
side swiped the BVI. We have only seen some aerial pictures of the yard where
we store Frolic and it looks bad! Our sailing days of Frolic may be over. We
are now waiting to be able to go to the BVI and see the results of Irma.
