We had a visit from some friends who knew us in our pre-sailing days, circa 1997-2001. We have all since moved out of the houses that were next to each other, but man, did we have some great times in that neighborhood. I never had to plan what we were going to do during the weekend. We were just going to hang with the neighbors. We started around 6pm on Friday and continued through the weekend. If the garage door was open, it was ok to come over. The kids were of assorted ages, but all got along. It was a very rare time and we are lucky to still have them as friends.
Cheryl, Tommy and Greg (Texas Tech sophomore) came from Midland, TX. Brenda and Marcus came from Kingwood, TX. We took C, T & G to Classic for lunch on Friday, then moved on to the house. B & M got there around 4ish. David and Tommy started the Gin and Tonics after 5 (note pink pitcher on table). Marcus declined participating in the tradition and rightly so. After dinner we went for a night sail. Brenda did the Titanic move at the bow and didn’t fall off the boat (it was a close call). Tommy and Cheryl fell asleep (was it relaxing or did they over imbibe?). We safely docked the boat, not losing any limbs and retired to the house.
Next morning, another sail planned, this time mostly sober, although not for long. We had some time constraints, but decided to go to Redfish Island for a picnic. Marcus got his work out trimming the starboard side jib. Brenda and Cheryl got their ab work out sitting on the low side. I trimmed the port side jib. The wind was up a bit so the anchoring wasn’t so stellar. We ate lunch and carried on down wind back to the club. Then the rest gets a little foggy for me. I will let someone else comment on that if they wish. All in all it was awesome seeing them all again. I will need about a year to recover from it though.
We have had lots of friends ask “can we visit you in the Bahamas?” Of course you can, but we are afraid to make any commitments until we know #1 if we will like it and #2 where we are going. I will try to narrow it down a little. Everyone plan to come to see us in sometime in November-January and maybe February, on one of the islands in the Bahamas. Ok that’s settled, see you there!
