Day 73 "Day of rest" -well, sort of...

After two nights sleeping in a bed the did not rock gently (i.e. on land). I got a wonderful, long (9 hours) of sleep. The Admiral got up an hour earlier and went off to buy several months worth of pop, water, etc. Over the course of the day, I spent several more hours in the engine room checking water levels in batteries (9 of 11 batteries are lead/acid), cleaning raw water intake strainers, checking verious other fluid levels and generally having a "fun" time.

     We drove to Vero Beach (12 miles) to a movie theater to see "Pacific Rim". The Admiral has been wanting to see it, and I finally ran out of excuses. In order not to spoil it for you, I will only tell you that the popcorn was excellent. That's actually the deal - I'll go to any movie as long as I can have a (re-fillable) bucket of popcorn...

a few final pictures. One of the not terribly fond memories that I have of 3 trips to Qatar is all of the roundabouts (or traffic circles) that they have. Talk about scary! Three lanes of traffic with people cutting back and forth...  Well, just down the street at the exit from the marina is a roundabout. This one is pretty benign as there is almost no traffic so it was actually fun to scoot around it. Whew!

In the morning the Admiral

will be taking the rent car back early, and then we will be off north to Melbourne, FL, which is a trip of almost 50 miles. The final picture is of Lucky Us in the slip where she has been for the past week. I kind of like this picture since it looks like there is a palm tree on the aft end of the fly bridge. Yes, that would be tacky, but it would be better than the pink flamingos on the bow of that sailboat in Stuart...