Anna in Beaufort (Phase 3)

Thur, Jun 19

Lordy, I'm getting tired!  Trying to keep up with these girls is wearing me out.

Another active day - this time on the sailboat.

Winds of 20 knots+ made for a vigorous sail.

I'm really pleased with how far Anna has progressed in handling Eureka.  Today we had a minor crisis.  We rolled out the mainsail a little (we had the geneoa (the big sail on the bow) reefed quite a bit because of the high winds) and when we were ready to roll it in, the topping lift (which holds the main up) got wrapped in the mainsail as it was rolling in.  This can be a real crisis with high winds and you can't get the sail in. Anyway, Anna jumps right in helping me get everything back under control.  Great job.  I'm real proud of her.

Running down Taylors Creek

Potato chip lips

After all this, we decided it was time for some fun, so we dropped the anchor and went swimming for a while.

Ponys running on the beach at Shackleford.

I'm tired.

Fri and Sat, Jun 20 & 21

Friday the girls give me a day off and they go shopping  -   again.

Anna helps Mimi put the shades up on the back porch

Saturday morning we go downtown for breakfast and the girls decided that today is the day for dresses.  They DID stand out in Beaufort

The Beaufort Bucket List for the week.  I think they got it all done.

We have more to continue the next time I come down to Beaufort. This time there will be two 13 year old girls so all of you people who are friends with Papa better wish him some luck!

This is our first experiment trying to load a video on the blog.  This is the work of 2 young teenage girls who have grown up using technology and it is amazing how creative they are.  

Tomorrow Anna leaves for a week at Camp Don Lee.  But she'll be baaaaccck~