The Daytona Project

That's what we not so affectionately call our little beach house in Daytona - The Daytona Project that never really ends. When we docked at the local marina I said, "maybe we should just NOT go to the house and never reaaly know how much damage those 26 days of continuous rain caused a few months back" But we went to look; then we went to Home Depot. So basically, we lost 5 days of cruising to wall and window reconstruction at The Daytona Project. Thank you bro-in-law Paul for the use of your truck for the first material run, and thank you niece Mary for the use of your VW Bug for material run two, which included about ten 8 ft. long 2 x 4's. That was a picture that I wish I'd taken. And additional thanks to Paul for the use of his Motor Scooter with a double seat so that we had transportation to and from the boat. I'm sure I looked stunning in that little Harley Davidson Half Shell Helmet that I easily could have lived my whole life without ever donning and not regretted. (Yet another photo NOT taken) It's perhaps the closest I'll ever get to being a "biker chick" - so not me. Tom liked me holding on tight, except that our helmets kept knocking together. Handyman Hubby saved the day again and the little house is back in order.

So today we high-tailed it out of Daytona at about noon and ended up in Titusville just in time for what appeared to be a wine tasting of sorts at the end of E-Dock - right where we were docking. Evidently there was supposed to be a rocket launch at the nearby Military Base and so everyone brought their bottles of wine to gather together and watch. Well the launch was cancelled but our little dock party lasted regardless and we all had a pretty good time. We had a lovely pairing tonight for dinner - Rodney Strong Cabernet (gift from the LaBelles) with a Bison Steak. Mmmmm. In hindsight it was probably really clever of us to name the boat "Uncorked" because when people visit us, they bring us wine!

Captain says he wants to get an early start so that we can get at least to Jupiter tomorrow so until then,I'm blogging off.