In my opinion, we spend too long wishing we could change the past, too long planning the future, and too little time living in the moment. So instead of writing about all of my plans for this new year or all of my favorite moments from last year, I want to share my day with you.
Today, January 2nd, (I doubt this will go up until much later), I woke up to the crackling of the VHF. Some of our boat friends were calling asking if dad wanted to go surfing with them. However, after three continuous days of paddling hard mixed with some boat jobs, he chose to take the morning easy. I got a pretty late start to the day, I was up and moving by 8:30 which is late for boat life. I blame the New Years party and fireworks until three in the morning the day before for the slow start.
Almost all of the food we share on this blog has been special to a certain spot but I’m sure you’re very well acquainted with my breakfast. Cheerios and a banana! Well, off brand cereal from a few countries ago, milk made from powder, and a fresh banana from the fruit market. Pretty great way to start the day.
Lucy and Sally went off to a friends boat to work on a super secret special event that I’m gonna let them tell about so Fenton and I played cards for a bit. We learned this game from other cruiser friends and we’ve been playing every morning ever since. I’d highly suggest the game, Poophead, Poohead, or S***head depending on who you ask. Google it!
After our daily few hands of cards we decided to put our suits on and attempt to set the windsurfer up all by ourselves. Actually, it was the other way around. Try to set up the windsurfer and then swimsuits which was a wet mess of fun. It took quite a bit and some helping hands from dad but eventually we got her up. Fenton hopped up on the windsurfer so I decided to get the paddle board which was held by three long strips of material held together by a large metal clip. I unhooked one of the three and it splashed into the deep blue sea. Actually, the 10 foot brown ocean. Dad and I looked for a good 15 minutes and decided to call it lost. I eventually got the paddle board into the water and splashed around for a bit. We took turns switching from the paddle board to windsurfer until we got tired and the the rain was really starting to pick up, it’s been raining all day long.
It was almost lunch time and we didn’t have anything planned or started so we decided to make some lunch. The idea started with enchiladas. We made the rice and a homemade enchilada sauce, collected the rest of the ingredients and started putting it all together. However, our tortillas from Grenada….? so about 5 countries ago, were a lil stiff. So we made enchilada lasagna! Very tasty.
The rest of the day was full of windsurfing. Back and forth switching and lots of falling and splashing. Lucy made a fantastic dinner later and we concluded the day with watching Mamma Mia!
Living the adventure day by day. 🙂
P.S. As we are slowly easing back into school, my assignment for today was to write up a blog post so, here it is.