Jan 2 - The New Year

Happy New Year to everyone. We’re still here in Stuart, FL. We got a few days of typical FL weather and really enjoyed the warmth on New Years Day.

They have a “meet and greet” with all the boaters every Tue, Thur and Sat at 1645 hours. We attended the New Years Eve get together and carried ham salad and crackers to share. Thank goodness it was all consumed. The eight pounds of Christmas ham is finally history. The turnout was down as lots of people are still away for the holidays, but the crowd numbered about thirty and included people from just about everywhere. We said so long and headed back to the boat around 2100 with thoughts of returning around 2300 to celebrate the new year with the party crowd. Back at the boat it didn’t take long for sleep to overtake us and I awoke with only about twelve minutes to go before midnight. I woke Donna, we rang in the new year and then went to bed. No late night party for these wimps.

I guess that was a sign of how our New Years day activities were going to progress. A planned visit to Wahoo’s for happy hour and customer appreciation food got canceled when Maggie couldn’t make it. So for excitement we started on a 500 piece puzzle (darn you… I mean, thank you Shirley G.) We were about half done with the puzzle when we lost our warm weather. It turned cloudy and a cold front blew in (20- 30 mph winds) near sundown.

We awoke to 52F inside the boat and predictions of only lower 60’s for the day. Actually things are expected to be that way for several days. Maybe we need to go south for the winter.