Our new couch is here!

braden

Jun 22, 2010 — 1 min read

^{Posted by Erin on June 10, 2010}

We’re home! After a very long 12 hour trip we finally made it home. We left the Bahamas at 3:00 AM, so we got to watch the sunrise this morning.

Today was the first day on the boat that we didn’t run in to any rain, so we got home very hot, tired, sunburned and hungry. Even Ethel was ready to get home after being gone for over a week.

We took some cold showers, then went to Moe’s for dinner. We’re planning to spend the rest of the night on the couch catching up on the shows on our DVR, then heading to bed early.

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