Happy St Patricks Day

Happy St Patricks Day!
Well, really, Happy St Pat’s weekend. As you likely know, Olivia is spending the weekend with us. Carryn picked her up Wednesday and we have really been having a great week.

We got down to the boat on Friday evening, in time for a little birthday celebration. Turns out, one of our boat neighbors was also a March 13th baby and another on March 17th. So we joined the party, hopped from boat to boat and had a great time.

This morning we rolled out and got the dinghy in the water and ready to go. Olivia has been itching to try out her new Barbie Fishing Pole that we got her.

So we took off out into the Wilmington River and found ourselves in the middle of a laser/sunfish races. We watched the little boats skitter around the course and Olivia “fished”.

Then a great tragedy struck: Olivia was casting her new rod and let go of the whole thing. It hit the water and sunk like a rock. We didn’t even get a chance to grab for it. As you can imagine, Olivia was devastated and just couldn’t understand her misfortune.

After wiping away the tears, we headed back in to get some lunch and get ready for the St Pats Parade on Tybee Island.

Having gone to the Tybee Mardi Gras parade a few weeks ago, we were a little skeptical. But we were pleasantly surprised. The parade was great. Olivia and Bella got to see lots of floats, goofy people and collected beads. Both got “citations” from the Keystone Cops. The highlight of the parade was the Budweiser Clydesdales.

We ended the day with dinner at Huck-a-Poos, a local bar and grill. It’s one of our favorites because the welcome dogs. Bella gets to sit at the table with us, inside or out. It is great, and she really loves all the attention.

Hope you like the pictures. Take care and talk to you soon.

I must admit that we have neglected our blog. Please forgive us, dear reader(if we have any readers left). As you can see, the last entry was merely a placholder for us to document our wonderful Christmas break, but it is still unfilled. Carryn is on me every evening because I enjoy so much reading other cruisers' blog sites, but never update our own. I promise to do better.

So what are we up to these days? Well, the weather in Atlanta has been tough. Certainly o