Home for Now
January 19, 2022 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment
We have made it all the way down to FL, and chosen a ‘home for now’ in Stuart, FL. We are at Sunset Bay Marina on a mooring and settling into our new community. The marina is aptly named as the Sunsets here are fabulous!
We arrived here just before Christmas, and had a great 3rd Christmas aboard. The kids got all sorts of new fun things, a baby bathtub and water-proof baby doll for Trixie, a solar powered robot that can be built 13 different ways for Tristan, and both of them got new swings to fly from the halyards on. We also got a few new family games that we have all enjoyed playing repeatedly!
Our buddy boat ‘Mug Up’ stopped to visit us for the Christmas holiday. We traveled all the way from Annapolis, MD to Cumberland Island, GA with Mug Up, spent Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas with them, and we were so happy to see them again before they headed over to the Bahamas for the season.
The kids are well known in the marina, and we have heard many comments about how well behaved they are, and adorable too of course!
Tristan is starting baseball soon with the local little league, he is on the ‘Marlins’ team and very excited to play again after 2 full years off.
Trixie makes friends basically everywhere she goes, she is outgoing and friendly and walks right up to kids of any age and introduces herself. She has made a couple of younger friends here at the marina (kids who visit frequently but don’t live here) and at the local playgrounds too.
The kids are still living their best life, sailing friends’ sailing dinghy, making friends with another boat owners puppy, dying their hair crazy colors, seeing turtles swim by our boat, drawing, swinging from halyards, and climbing trees. There is a great climbing tree at a local playground and even Ben has climbed it (to rescue a stuck disc).
Ben got a job at the swanky restaurant on the marina grounds, ‘Sailors Return’ and has already impressed management, of course. We plan to be here for awhile while we refill the cruising kitty and do some boat projects too. The marina is a great place for live-a-boards, they have bikes available to borrow, a 3x weekly bus that goes to all the stores one might need (grocery store, hardware store, boating store, etc.), events for boaters (movie nights, happy hours, trivia…) and we have already met so many wonderful people.
