Thanksgiving was spent at our dock neighbors house, Steve and Lisa.  They are just wonderful hosts that put up with us.  Along with us, were our other dock neighbors, Jeff and Tessa.  Both of them have just become U.S. citizens and were celebrating their first Thanksgiving (being from Canada, they don't know about Thanksgiving).   After dinner Jay and Nicky stopped by to finish off the days celebration.  The next day was a sad day as Jeff and Tessa left the Marina and are taking their boat to Florida to cruise the Islands.   We will miss them on the dock.  It sure is getting empty around here with everybody going south.  Next year it will be our turn.

November 12, 2006  Just been a normal week.  Not much happening.  Sailing for the season is over and Solitaire has been put to bed for the winter.  This last Friday, Nancy and I went and looked at a Mason 54 for our friends.   It was a wonderful sailing vessel.  If it didn't cost so much Nancy said "forget the friends, lets buy it".    We did something out of the ordinary for us.  We have booked a trip to China.  We will be staying in Beijing and seeing the Great Wall and all of that tourist stuff.  The price was too good to pass up and we figured that is someplace that we would never sail to.  So in a couple of weeks, off we go.  Our hotel is a five star and looks wonderful.   The room is large and has a separate sitting area.  We will find out what it really is like when we get there.  That's about all this week.  Talk to you later.

November 02, 2006  Fall is definitely in the air.  The corn is mostly harvested and the trees are turning.  Next to our pool you can see the great colors that we have here.    The roses are still doing great although we are supposed to freeze this weekend, I hope they will still make it for a little longer.    Nancy is staying home this week or should I say sleeping at home this week.  She is working out at the Dulles International Airport this week at her office out there and if traffic is good she can make it back to the boat is 1 hour and 30 minutes but most of the time it takes a couple of hours.  Last weekend we did the cancer fund raising again and worked the yard sale.  Weather wasn't as nice as the weekend before but still was pleasant.  I ran across Mark this week at the docks( we had met him and his wife in Bonaire).  They were just waiting to get their boat bottom painted and then take off to the clear blue waters of the south.  Slow week this week.  I am only working one day but next week I work 3 days.  Working that much gets in the way of retirement.  Bye for now.