It doesn't matter that it's St. Paddy's Day out here at Eneko to say the least, but everything out here is GREEN. It looked like a stellar day ahead, flat enough to take the paddle boards out, but on second thought decided that the new skiff is handful enough for the boys and I with the dogs, so we took snorkel gear instead.

At shore the gaggle of girls distracted the boys long enough for me to finish a book, and after lunch on the beach the weather started to turn. Skipping the snorkeling, I decided I'd better get back out to the boat, and just getting into the skiff (a 12 foot aluminum boat isn't very forgiving on bones, butts, ribs, etc...quite unlike beaching my former pregnant self onto the inflatables' squishy pontoons) was challenging enough. Now I'm aboard LS out here on the mooring ball and we're dancing around like a whirlygig, and I took a wind reading of 28.2mph. WOW. Good thing I left the boys ashore, as well as the dogs, 'cause trying to land the skiff off the stern with Love Song's hiney plowing up and down was like trying to go from one bucking horse to another in a sick rodeo of sorts. There was no time to tilt the motor properly, let's say.

Anyways, I'm glad it's daylight, although if this lasts we'll all be seasick! I quickly stowed at much stuff that should've already been stowed as possible and latched the cupboards, which are clinking with the tossing waves. Where is that husband when you need him?! Apparently Allen went to the airport after a long boat ride in another aluminum shoreboat from MV Windward, and the flight had already come and gone without him. That was Wednesday. There was no flight today, so tomorrow he'll try again, this time at 8 instead of the 10am that he was told. We will have been without him for a week, and that's a long time when I'm not used to doing this "alone" anymore! (who is ever alone with 2 kids and 2 dogs?!)

Don't Y'all wish you were here? Does anyone have some Patron and a little green food coloring? Happy St. Patrick's Day!