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After 2 days of beating myself up, I am beginning to recover-trying to focus on all the wonderful blessings during this journey to date. Jim, Ricks sailing, kiting buddy taking time to help position the boat so that I could limit my off shore sailing time. Wonderful weather the whole trip, the crossing to and from Bimini were the best, calmest I've ever been on. I've always wondered why people look at me like I'm crazy when I say I don't like off shore sailing-they have never been on my previous off shore trips:) calm, safe anchorages all along the way, Jim's sister and brother in law providing a bed and breakfast atmosphere at their place, and now, fabulous neighbors and friends, Dave and Megan, who located our current Passports and mailed them to us. We are so blessed! We are now anchored in Lake Sylvia, in Ft. Lauderdale. It's a wonderfully calm anchorage, about 10 other sailboats here with us now. It is a dinghy ride to several restaurants. We are having a minor issue with the transmission plate that we noticed on our return US sail, so we are going into a Marina tomorrow and get it checked out. Another blessing, we know a guy here who did great work on our boats in the past and he is going to check it out. That also gives us a mailing address to receive our passports in the mail. I'm finally caught up with the blog. We will spend today fine tuning some things and just resting up. We appreciate the comments! I'm kind of hoping for a more boring blog from here on out:)