Christmas Eve Gremlins

Christmas eve, as we celebrated our anniversary, came with lovely surprises and a few gremlins!

The surprises included a “sundowner” we were invited to join by our fellow boaters in the marina. We contributed our anniversary bottle of champagne and some appetizers to the collection already there in the cozy dock gathering space. Then while we were there, we were all invited to a campfire near a large powerboat at the end of our dock, which entertained us with continuous seasonal music and a huge display of coloured lights! The host gave us guests strings of lights as we left – so now we’re all sporting our colours – very festive.

In between those two events, we ate our anniversary dinner of lobster tails and shrimp, braised asparagus and corn on the cob – with fresh figs for dessert. All lovely.

Not so lovely were the gremlins that attacked both our galley (read kitchen) sink with a huge leak in a hard-to-reach place, and our head (read bathroom) sink faucet – which is now running continuously – bad news on a boat with limited water storage L.

We jury-rigged the head fixture with a wrench, turned off the water and ignored it all by spending today at the Kennedy Space Centre. It’s an amazingly well-done walk through the history of space travel – complete with the remains of the actual space shuttle Atlantis, many other unused real rockets, and a 3-D Imax film of outer space that blew us away!

Looks like we’ll be here for a while yet – so tomorrow I’m planning to rent a bike and go exploring in the slightly cooler weather (65 ish). Jeff intends to work on the plumbing problems … wish him well!