We are not lost!

There is more to follow- but I wanted to just update everyone on what has been going on because let me tell you - there has been a LOT!

1)  We have been getting shipment upon shipment of goods including, but not limited to: weather stripping, fans, wedding "thank yous" (yes, they are coming!), new handrails, teak finishing product, super cute Patagonia underwear (boy shorts = double as swim suit bottoms!), more zip lock bags than I care to count, and new bedding, to name a few...
2) We went to the Jimmy Buffett show with 20 of our friends and had a blast.  I am 99.9% sure I was on the Jumbo Tron which is yet another item to cross off my bucket list, and I may or may not have sat in a baby pool with strangers for 45 minutes to cool off.
3)  We made a new friend, a lovely German man by the name of "Eggie" (we think he just calls himself that because he assumes we will not be able to pronounce his real name, he's most likely correct).  Eggie has been sailing around the world for 3+ years and just pulled into our little harbor on Thursday.  Take one look at his boat and you KNOW this thing has been around the world.  Our friend Lester introduced us and we all became fast friends and shared a couple of meals (and some awesome shipping charts!! SCORE!)
4)  I finished stripping our toe rail teak of varnish.  This job was about as much fun as another scraping job that comes to mind.  But with the help of my brother Kevin, we got the job done.  More on this in another post...
5) I drove "Eggie" to the airport to pick up his friend "Color" - seriously, these Germans have some pretty funny names.
6)  Went to West Marine only TWICE and both times spent less than $200!!  WHOO HOO.
7)   We started drilling holes and running wiring for our electronics.  Sooner than later we will be a (somewhat) functioning boat with all the "bells and whistles" (aka lights and instruments).  Working with flashlights at night is less than ideal.  Especially because our boat is "the place to be" for spiders and once the sun goes down, they are EVERYWHERE.  And man do they work fast.  Nothing like crouching down to run a wire, and coming up only to have your head covered in a freshly woven sticky web and coming eye to eye with some nasty looking arachnid who I *swear* has fangs...but I digress...
8)  I “cleaned” all of our teak wood with a "two part" teak cleaner.  I am convinced "Two Parts" means nothing more than "twice as long"....
9)  Scott mounted all our beautiful new instruments on our beautiful new instrument panel! Pics to come.

10)  Despite the fact that our boat looks like a Home Depot crashed head first into a West Marine while going 90 mph, we seem to be making some progress!

More to follow - we are moving along FULL STEAM AHEAD.

G'night.  ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz......

Brittany & Scott