Our month at the Telemar Bay Marina came to an end. We wanted to say a big THANK YOU to everyone there, Karen, Kenny, Tony have all been great. Karen in particular was extremely helpful to us and we very much appreciate it.

Bill arrived back from Minnesota on Sunday afternoon. He really enjoyed his time with his daughters, parents and brother. I don't think he will miss the Minnesota weather though. On Sunday we finish stowing everything that was used the past month, filled up the water tank and did some last minute cleaning. I rode my bike to the grocery store to pick up food for the next few days. I added a basket to my bike so with that and my backpack I can buy several days worth of supplies. We put the bikes on the bow, now we really look like official cruisers.

We have already deviated from our tentative plan. We left Telemar Bay Marina at about 7:30 and went all the way to Fort Pierce City Marina, by-passing Vero Beach. Arrived at around 4:00. We had a few cocktails at the Tiki Bar here at the marina then walked to a bar called Jo-Jo's to watch the Vikings play the Chicago Bears. Ended up playing trivia at the bar and Team Walkabout won 3rd place! We won $10 but I think Bill would rather have won 4th place - a pitcher of beer. Anyone know what a "Pile Driver" is? I had no clue, Bill guessed that one right something about wrestling and construction. Bill lost his bet with Mike of Anan Cara - twice now Vikes have lost to the Bears.

We are staying a second night since the guy from Sisco Marine didn't finish with the fuel cleaning until around noon. Nice guy, seemed to know what he was doing. Not sure this will solve our problem with dirty fuel, guess we will need to constantly be changing the fuel filters and adding the bio-stuff (don't know what it is called) to keep the fuel clean.

I talked Bill into looking for our Christmas lights so now have lights in the salon and around the cockpit. Guess that is about as much Christmas as we will have this year. Downtown Fort Pierce has a fantastic Christmas light and music show next to the marina that we walked to this evening, we can hear the music from our boat as well. I think Bill has had enough since Christmas music - he dislikes Christmas music even more than Country which is saying a lot.

Plan on leaving at around 8:00 tomorrow morning after the fuel dock opens. Not sure where we will anchor tomorrow night, several options depending on how long it takes us to get through all the bridges.