On Friday morning Joe came over to look at Tom's installation of our solar panels. He and his wife are on a 52' Beneteau from Boston, MA. They talked extensively and while conversing Nigel and Ann came by to say they were going to take our suggestion and dink up the New River. Oh and would we like to meet them around 1400 at Southport raw bar for some clams - you're on.
We spent a leisurely morning on the boat and then left to meet them at the raw bar. It was quite crowded with all the boat slips taken but still room for us to tie up the dinghy. We had a great afternoon of easy conversation and great food. After our meal Tom needed to go to the hardware store to get some new bulbs for the night floor lights in our boat. We walked to ACE hardware only to discover they didn’t carry them. They told us to go to Radio Shack in the next plaza. So off we walked and found a Batteries Plus store first, went in and found the bulbs there.
On our walk back to the boat we took note of an Einstein Bagel shop across the street and said to each other – let’s go there tomorrow for some bagels.
Back to the boat for a light dinner of a julienne salad and coffee.
Next morning (Sat.) we went to Einstein for the bagels. We each had one there with coffee and then bought 6 more for later days. We stopped at Winn Dixie on our way back to the boat for some provisions and then on our way back to our boat stopped by Joe and Mary Ellen’s boat Pendragon - to say hi. They invited us on board and we stayed and chatted until about 1400 – what a great couple- we had a lovely time talking. Upon leaving we stopped back at our boat to put the provisions I had bought into the fridge (luckily Mary Ellen put the food in her fridge while we were there) and then took off again to do some exploring.
We got back around 1730 and decided to go in the water – it was warm and refreshing. We not sure why we haven’t gone in until now but we’re glad we took the plunge It was great to get cleaned up. We had some munchies of vegetables and crackers and then a cold dinner of flank steak and asparagus marinated in balsamic vinegar and Worcestershire. Think we’ll find a laundromat tomorrow and wash some clothes!