We're Back!

In Charleston that is. The boat got a facelift while we were home - new carpet and cork flooring. We're really happy with it. Thank you Jim Franey and World of Floors. Not only is the interior much nicer, but with all new batteries installed, I think our engine issues and GPS failures are behind us (quick - knock wood)

LaBelles came with us for the weekend. Their son Lance works at the Boeing plant here and needed a stress relieving overnight cruise to Beaufort and back with us. Don't know how strees free it was given that it became our first night time run with this boat. And do you think we could have had just a sliver of moonlight to help us out? No such luck. It was as pitch black as I've ever seen and after a few panicked moments, we figured out how to get the built-in spotlight working. Having two helms is a nice feature unless you have the spot working from the wrong helm at exactly the moment when you NEED to spot the green marker shielding you from very shallow water.

Arrived in Beaufort about 8 p.m. and headed out to find a good restaurant. The McGarrity's from the Old Club spend their winters in Beaufort and we promised to contact them if we got to their town. Since this was just an overnighter, we figured we'd call them later in the week when we head back their way. Who do you think was sitting at the first table of the restaurant we walked into and said "I thought you were going to call us!" It really is such a small world. We will be seeing them tomorrow though and we all got a good laugh out of it.

Circled back to Charleston to drop off our guests - we had a lot of laughs and seeing a hard-working, level-headed kid with a great sense of humor gave me hope for this Y generation. We head out toward Florida tomorrow but would highly recommend Charleston to anyone looking for a great, small-town, yet cosmopolitan vacation. We'd come back.