April 2010 Update
I keep getting later and later with these updates. It seems like life keeps getting busier and busier. Oh well, April was a wonderful month. It started out with Scty's birthday. At the last minute I invited our neighbors to come over for cake and ice cream to celebrate and I think everyone showed up:
We had Bob & Jane from S/V Eolian:
Fred from S/V Black Opal
Doug from S/V Angelique and Elaine from S/V Hawkwind
Tawn from S/V Palarran, Linda from S/V Black Pearl, and Ruth from S/V Angelique
and Brent and Jill from S/V Ambition
We have such fabulous neighbors and friends. I'm sure there were more people, but we didn't get pictures of them. We had about 20 people on the boat and it was still quite comfy.
The kids and Dad headed out fishing one of the days and caught a lingcod. It was lingcod season, so we couldn't keep it, but they had a blast:
Scty's been working away on our Mizzen Mast project (he will go into more detail on that later). It's been quite a long process and we will all be happy to have it done:
This is the piece that was rotten, so he had to scarf a new piece in.
April had some beautiful weather and one of the weekends we spent the entire weekend playing outside. The adults sat and visited and enjoyed the sunshine and the kids kept busy, too:
The kids also had some music concerts and art walks this month. They love performing and the art was amazing:
I have to say that the best event of the month was our Beach Party at Secret Beach. Secret Beach is only usable and visible at low tides. So planning a day to have a party there is pretty tricky. We had planned this last year and knew this was the only date that would work for a sunset gathering. Once again it was kind of spur of the moment informing everyone what we planned. We were a little worried about the weather, but it ended up being perfect. So many people showed up and I think we'll be making this an annual event:
The tide finally told us it was time to go. Words can't describe how much fun that night was. These experiences just make me love this lifestyle more and more.
