Thursday January 24: Finally - Celebration of Christmas!

It was finally time for us to celebrate Christmas! Overcoming numerous challenges, we managed to all be ready at the same time. Becky in California, Matt and Wendy in North Carolina and us here in Marathon, Florida.

Steve had the cabin appropriately decorated and Miss Piggy and Cactus Guy were ready and in the spotlight. Packages were gathered on the seat next to Steve. Santa had arrived in Marathon :-)

Now all we were waiting for was the invitation from Wendy to join her Google Hangout!!

The invitation arrived with a 'ding' on the computer - we were very excited when Fozzie greeted us on our screen! Then Becky joined and we were ready to go.

Matt was very festive with his stocking cap and Becky had Christmas lights on her table in LA. It was almost like we were all in one place :-)

A great time - and lots of fun gifts. We even received a cookbook from Linda Limbert - along with a keychain that floats! What could be more perfect for people who live on a boat :-)

Thanks Becky, Matt and Wendy for a great time :-)

Even though it was a late night (playing with gifts :-)), this morning came especially early.

The fuel delivery truck was here (7:45) and we were first on the list and I'm still in bed!!! Steve asks "How much fuel in each tank?" (one of my jobs is to monitor the fuel level). I don't know - I need to check - doesn't anyone know I don't do mornings???

After finally getting my act together, I determined we  could take 70 gallons in the port tank and 75 gallons in the starboard tank. Having fuel delivered right to the marina is not only convenient but priced right as overall the group took over a thousand gallons. Good for us and good for the fuel place.

A few overhanging branches needed trimmed for the truck to be able to reach the boats away from the road so Steve offered to take his saw in hand and deal with them. Looks better trimmed anyway :-)

Of course we still made it to breakfast - just a bit later than usual. Like lunchtime :-)

Steve is really hooked on his new ipad. He LOVES it - not sure why but maybe I'll figure it out given a chance ......

Anyway, Joe and Joy from High Spirits arrive tomorrow. We last left them in the northern part of Florida as they stopped and returned north to spend time with their family.

A milestone was reached the other day as we returned from snorkeling and fishing: we have now traveled over 12,000 miles on Yesterday's Dream since leaving Cleveland in 2009. Wow!! I figure we could have boated to LA and back twice :-)