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coming together

erin

Apr 12, 2023 — 2 min read

We've spent lots of hours working to get the boat ready to go. Finally I feel like it is all coming together. Yesterday we checked off a bunch of tasks, and today we celebrated with a beach day.

This was our medicine cabinet. I mentioned before that the guy who owned the boat left expecting to come back. There was so much stuff left on the boat. We've already filled 5 huge garbage bags, and there is still a lot to go. Everything in this cabinet either expired in 2015, or had completely disinegrated.

Everything was in French. One thing that is apparently universal... Imodium.

Beach day!

family time

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