We were determined to NOT be here for a week of music every night until 4-5am! But we did come back for the last night of Carnival (2/21) and we're glad we did. Cruiser friends Nancy, Ethan and Zada let us tag along with them since they 'knew the score'. They bought eggs with confetti in them but you could NOT toss them at the lovely ladies and handsome men - only at the trucks or the little boys who were trying to catch them or smash them on your neighbor! I'm still picking up confetti that came back to 'Celestial'. I did get a feathered Carnival party mask to remember the event with. More pictures are on facebook.

We’re into our last few weeks in Mexico. We need to seriously think about what we need to do before we head out again. Nathan, our son flies in on the 3rd and we’ll start watching for a weather window to sail to HAWAII! Nathan was super excited to do the two week sail, not that excited to play tourist in Hawaii but his girlfriend will come over for her birthday so I expect his enthusiasm to change then!

We're changing zincs, working on the auto pilot so it'll hang in there until Hawaii when we'll replace it, replacing our protective edge to the rolled up jib that stands in the sun day after day. There's hardly any material left from when we had it done in 2009.

After all our calm days up north, we're back in the windy city where we've drug our anchor twice already! The tide streams in and out of the bay twice a day pulling you this way then that way. Luckily our anchor alarm is loud enough to wake us up at 3am!! We were onshore back in December when it happened the first time. We were enjoying a festival and we hear on a loud speaker, "It appears the boat 'Celestial' has gone on a walkabout!! Luckily we just rubbed against a sand bar and didn't hit anyone. This time again, it was low drama to get on deck and re-anchor the boat, thank the Lord!

We have our bikes and backpacks to get to the stores we need and bring items back to the boat. Today it was 5 miles to Home Depot and Walmart for misc. items. We're still enjoying our hermit crab down below and we've made a better 'home' for Victoria, our tortoise to live in our cockpit. I do have to mention, its been great to get cactus, a great food for her. I also give her broccoli, some fruit, cabbage, lettuce and 'tortoise supplements'. (Once a mom, always a mom!)