We hope everyone successfully rang in the new year and had a speedy recovery.

We spent New Year’s Eve day at the pool with our crossing friends, Terry and Peggy from Attitude, and Robert and Carolyn of Gypsy Common. The pool is at their marina, the Abaco Beach Resort and Boat Harbor Marina. We drank rum and coke, compliments of Peggy, ate conch fritters and fresh fish fingers (bet you didn’t know fish had fingers), swam in the pool and soaked up all the Bahamian sun we could take. It was a beautiful 78 degrees!!! Read it and weep, you northerners. After all that fun, Robert and Carolyn insisted that we stay for dinner, always delicious from Carolyn’s galley. Robert shared his great Cuban Rum and Lisa discovered her new fondness… Banana Rum.

We toasted an early New Year with champagne and then borrowed a flashlight for the walk across town and dinghy ride back to our boat. On our walk we were drawn into the New Year fray by all the reggae sounds spilling into the street from the harbour front dining and drinking establishments. Our energy level pumped up by the beat of the live music, we had a second wind! After a quick stop at Lucky Peek to freshen up we loaded back in the dinghy and headed to the Jib Room at Marsh Harbor Marina (400 yards from where we are anchored). We danced to the heavy reggae beat and consumed their signature beverage, the Bilge Burner. It was at that moment, we felt that all the preparations and hard work to get here had paid off and we were truly passing into a new phace of our travels with the new year. Oh, and Lisa danced to enthusiastically that she sprained a toe!

We made it back to the boat some time after midnight and had an extremely lazy New Years Day of reading, relaxing, and recuperating. Now we are living the life! And it’s great so far!