We are still hanging around in Lake Worth waiting for a weather window. We haven't been doing too much, a little last minute boat part shopping and provisioning, and waiting around on the boat.
Last week we did have one of those days that answers the question of "How do you spend your time?" It is easier to clear into customs coming back into the country if we get a clearance number before we go to the bahamas. At 8:00 a.m. I logged onto the extremely slow internet connection from the boat. At 9:00 I finally got through to the customs website. The only page that would not load was the one page needed to pre-register to get an appointment at customs. At 10:00 I gave up on the computer, but that was okay since we were going to meet Scott and Kitty at Starbucks at 10:30 to try on the internet there. When we walked in a couple of customs officers were having their coffee break. They could not get the page to come up on my computer either. Strangely, Scott could get to the correct page. It still took a long time to figure out how to fill in the information and make appointments. From 10:30 to 1:00 we worked on getting the appointments for each of us at 2:00, 2:15, 2:30, 2:45. This gave us just enough time to get lunch and drive to the customs office. It is amazing how long it takes to accomplish one simple thing.
The Christmas season is kicking into high gear down here. Saturday night there was a parade of lights and fireworks. The fireworks were very cool as they were from a moving barge that followed the ICW.
Last night we were having dinner when we heard Christmas carols. Some of our friends were caroling by dinghy.
We are having quite a cold spell. This morning it was 42 degrees inside the boat. Oh well, at least there was no snow.
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