July 14, 2014

BUMMER!!

That's all I am going to say about Argentina's 1-0 loss to Germany in the final of the World Cup. The empanadas, salad and Malbec wine last night were good though.

We did some financial stuff and internet banking this morning on the boat and then went to town in the afternoon as we had some snail mail to post.

We had met an American couple at the yacht club while watching some of the soccer matches. We stopped by their boat and invited them for sundowners. They arrived to CS'ta Time shortly after 1800. We had sundowners, moon uppers and star glazers until 2300! They have been cruising for 10 years so had lots of stories to tell and we had a few of our own. It wasn't all boat talk though. We threw in some family stories, good jokes, political issues and had the world problems solved by the end of the night! 

July 15, 2014.

The morning was pretty much wasted away, well not really, I enjoyed reading my book and Jorge was reading news on the internet.

After lunch we went to town to the post office again. Diana and Gilbert had some mail sent in care of us at Port Louis Marina and it finally came in so we picked it up for them. We were also in search of distilled water for the batteries. We found some at the hardware store, returned to the boat and topped up the batteries. Sounds easy right? Well four of the six batteries are under the v-berth so we had to remove the bedding, mattress and boards to get to the batteries. The batteries are positioned in such a way that it was almost impossible to undo the caps. Jorge, after finally wiggling into a contortionist's position, got the job accomplished with him holding the funnel and the tubing and me pouring the water. It was almost as challenging for Jorge to get out of the position as it was getting into it LOL. Cruising has been described as "the privilege of fixing your boat in exotic places". So one has to ask why do so many people do it? Having a sip of wine in the warm evening air in the Caribbean Sea watching the sun set kinda says everything.

Bedtime was early as it had been a late evening the night before.

We are at GYC and I forgot my cable to download pictures from the camera to the computer, so pictures will follow the next time I blog.