Cheryl's Notes:

Sunday should be a day of rest, but ours will be busy. John has to watch the Vikings beat the Cowboys, and I have to get the boat ready for offshore. I have been banned from watching the game. The only games that I have watched, they lost. I made a promise to my sister Barb that I would cease and desist.

I will be busy stowing away anything that could go flying around in rough seas. Of course, we are hoping for fair winds and calm seas. We have already put the outboard motor on the stern rail mount, and the dinghy is secured on the davits. We are not going to put it on deck, the seas are not predicted to be that bad. I have to find places to store the last of the wine we bought, and the snacks need to be stored where they won't be crushed. We will do doing an overnight crossing, so I am going to make sandwiches and soup in a thermos for meals. Scandia had some seasickness medicine that they bought on their last trip to the Bahamas and John is going to try it for this trip. I am keeping my fingers crossed that it works, if not I am going to have a long night. I will try to nap in the afternoon while John is in charge.

We need to stress again, that our phones will no longer be in service. We will be staying at a marina in Nassau, and they have internet. We will post a blog entry and update our Facebook to let everyone know that we arrived safely. It will probably be sometime Tuesday afternoon. More of our continuing saga to follow...............

John's Notes:

I've been watching "Sunday Morning" today. It's usually my once a week culture update. Of course most of the early program was dedicated to the earthquake in Haiti. How much more can those people endure? Things are bad enough there without all the natural disasters they have had the last couple of years. This is just the next chapter. What really chapped my ass is that I saw our Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the Commanding Officer of the 82nd Airborne all defending our current response to this disaster. I don't care what political party you belong to, why should we have to defend anything. The last count I saw is that our government had already ponied up $100M while the rest of the world collectively had maybe coughed up $10M. All of the criticism comes from inside our own country. We are the country that just keeps on giving., so why all the criticism? I just don't get it. Can America be so dumb as to give any credence to jerks like Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh? We might have a screwed up political system but do you really want people like them governing how you live? I'm not only mad about this, I'm embarrassed . We do the best we can and yet it never seems to be enough.

On another front, we just might get out of Miami tomorrow. It's been ok here, but we are due for a change. Florida reminds me of back home in California, minus the hills and mountains, brown grass in winter and of course ice plant. My sister will know what I'm talking about.