Christmas Uncorked

We celebrated my parents golden anniversary with a party upnorth and then headed back to the boat. Christmas onboard seemed unconventional but was actually quite fun. Christmas Eve our friends J and Lynn treated us to a delicious dinner in Palm Beach at Renato's. They too were in town waiting for family to arrive. Then Tom and I ran the boat from Palm Beach to Fort Lauderdale and prepared a lovely prime rib dinner for two at Pier 66 to celebrate Christmas.

We joked with fellow Club members (Grekins) who are also down here on their 70 Lazzara that we will no doubt pass one another at some point. Well we did! Passed their boat in Boca right before one of the many low drawbridges along the way. That's their boat 3rd from the left in the top photo. On our way to Pier 66 we saw a couple of familiar boats that we'd seen in NY and Annapolis; My Marilyn, Gallant Lady and Linda Lou. I'm just guessing that they weren't looking out their salon windows saying "Isn't that Uncorked who we saw back in Maryland?" Beautiful ships - Linda Lou is that one on the left in pic 2. This place is a yacht spotters dream - we had so much fun just walking through the marina looking at the gorgeous ships. One stunner, Natanya 8, blew me away. I said to Tom, "when Obama redistributes the wealth, I would like that to come in our direction please"

We now have a fully loaded boat. Val, Ben, Tom, Kelle, and baby Ella have joined us. It's tight but really fun to all be together. We ran to Miami today and are going to Ocean Reef in Key Largo tomorrow. Tommy got a digital video cam for Christmas and Val is working for a super internet savvy marketing firm so I'm guessing that my little blog is going to get kicked up a notch. The final pic for this entry is our sweet little Grand-daughter who seems to love the rocking of the boat. Good nautical genes in that little gal! You can expect at least one Ella pic per day.

Hope you had a Merry Christmas.