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I would use an expletive there... but we are trying to keep this site family friendly. It all started out like any other day. We dropped our mooring ball and headed into a marina for the next week while our friends are visiting. We loved being on the mooring ball
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Wednesday mornings is the market at the marina. There are people selling homemade crocheted goodies, fruits, vegetables, eggs, homemade pesto, homemade jams, fresh juice, meat and baked goods. It gets busy with all the cruisers, so you have to get there early or they run out of the good stuff
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The girls and I had a bit of a slow morning while Braden was searching for more toilet parts. We were out of eggs, milk and waffles, so we decided to treat ourselves to a girls brunch. Afterward it was back to work. Today was deck scrubbing and cushion cleaning
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If you read Braden's post you know that Wednesday was our toughest day yet. We've done this sailing thing before, so we knew there would be bad days along with the good ones. Thursday we took it a little easy to regroup. Braden found the parts
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We're trying to mix in fun days with the work days. Moving day was a pretty big work day, so it was time for a beach day. First... lunch with fancy drinks. This beach was high on my list because it is supposed to have calm water and
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After 2 weeks in Grenada the boat was finally in good enough shape for us to move aboard. But first... one last breakfast at the cute little pastry shop at our resort. Braden had to make two trips to the boat because our rental car couldn't hold all
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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
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We took a short dinghy ride over to Hog Island for Easter. There was food, drinks, lots of people and live music. Not long after we got there a family showed up with a couple of kids. They came right over and asked Olivia if she wanted to play. Turns
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Olivia officially declared today the best day ever. It started off with a sailing lesson for Emma. I heard that a guy did sailing lessons right at the resort we are staying. I texted him yesterday and he told me just to come on down today. Lessons were free on
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We knew when we left there was still a lot of work to be done on the boat. There were some unfinished projects by the guys working on our boat. some boxes that still hadn't arrived and lots and lots of cleaning and organizing. We booked a cottage
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The previous owner of our boat was from France. He sailed the boat all over the world. When he brought the boat to Grenada in 2016 he planned to return and sail some more, so he left pretty much everything on the boat. Most of it was cleaned out before
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Today was a big day. After over 8 years sitting on the hard our boat is finally in the water! There is still some work to be done before we can go anywhere, but we're celebrating this as a pretty big victory. Our future YouTubers checking their videos.