Keeping Warm!

No pictures this week. It was either too cold to be outside or raining, so we spent the week trying to stay warm and have as much fun as possible. Ft. Lauderdale really is a nice place for a city - it's just been amazingly cold for Florida - near freezing in the AM and up to all of low 50's or less during the day. And it's been blowing constantly from the NW which is a really cold wind. I know that the rest of the country is a lot colder, but it's not much fun waking up on a 41 degree boat, putting all of our clothes on ( not enough for this kind of cold) and then dingying across the waterway to take a hot shower - Thank goodness for them.

Then it's on to the event to keep us off the boat for the day so we don't freeze. We've seen 2 good movies - "Up in the Air" and "Avatar". We had one day of nice weather, so we biked around town again. We've discovered a dynamite Italian bakery on Las Olas boulevard, so we bike 2 miles each way to get bread and pastry when the weather allows.

In the evening, the cruisers also stuck here gather for either drinks or even a pot luck dinner. Good group of people - international in scope - from Australia to Quebec to France and Germany. Even us. Nice folks out cruising for months to years, most planning to go to the Bahamas - not possible in these conditions - one heading back to Australia.

The weather is supposed to break some time this week - hoping for sooner rather than later. Our plan, given the weather and the fact that Arnie has to return to Boston in about a week is to stay here for about 10 days, with Ronnie visiting her Mom when Arnie is in Boston. Then when Arnie returns, there is an outside chance, pending weather, of trying again to make the passage to the Bahamas. If not, then we'll probably head down to the Keys and Miami.

Tune in next week.

Arnie and Ronnie