We have spent the last week getting ready to leave.  I have been provisioning the boat.  We compiled a list over several months of the things we thought we might need.  Based on that list I made shopping lists.  I ended up going to 8 stores, some of them a couple of times.  Even with the lists, I would find things we needed. Unfortunately I should have stuck to those shopping list because we now have 8 bags of Tostitos and napkins coming out of our ying yang 🙂  Oh well, I am sure they will eventually get used.  I hope I didn’t over provision, I guess time will tell.

Gary has been busy changing racors, installing a new Garmin, running cables for the sounding unit, changing impellers, washing the boat, getting our bikes on etc, etc.  The Captain if feeling pretty under the weather tonight.  Hopefully he will be well enough to travel by tomorrow!

Thanks to the Sunnyside gang for a wonderful and delicious farewell lunch for Gary as it was his last day of work on Friday, luckily I was able to come too.  We will sure miss the best marina and the best crew.  It will be tough to find a marina to replace Sunnyside

Saturday we went to our last St. Croix Yacht Club party, the Haul out Party.  What great fun!  They really classed us up as they had a Ballet Troop perform for us

Pretty impressive.

We had a great time with our friends and the food from Dixies was delish!  I have a blackmailing picture to post of two people dancing on chairs but I’ll save that for when I need a favor :).

We had a final breakfast with our kids, it was great to spend some time with them and it was nice to be able to eat outside.  We will sure miss them all and hope they keep in contact through Skype.  Thanks to my sister, Debbie, who dropped off her famous chocolate chip cookies and to give a final hug good-bye.  With good weather brings busy stores so Tim & Martha couldn’t sneak away for a last good-bye, but we’ll see you all in November for the big event.

Thanks to everyone who wished us well, gave us retirement gifts and lots of advice.  We will miss each and every one of you.  The pressure has been put on me to keep this “blog” going so I hope I don’t disappoint any of you.  BTW, I can’t spell worth crap so excuse any misspelled words.

Hopefully the adventure starts tomorrow, until then, Happy Trails!