We will made the best of it with Ben and Carol’s moms stopping by for a visit, then Ben and Ken sailed the little boats, with a fireworks display from downtown Pensacola being easily viewed off the bow of Jim’s sailboat.

Moms visit.

Ken is cruising.

Ben is right behind him.

Carol took pictures, video’d, and chatted with Sheri.

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We started off Friday afternoon at the usual cocktail hour under the marina gazebo, before retiring to the boat for the night.

Blake read us a bedtime story.

Pogo found her bed spot.

Saturday Blake went to see a movie with his MawMaw, while Carol and Ben spent the day moving stuff from boat to boat.

There was some time to relax though and enjoy the sun.

Carol and Blake coloring.

At some point over the weekend there was a regatta going on with lots of boats in the channel. They had to scramble when a barge came through.

The sailboats were decorated with their flags.

Although we never left the dock, we did spend the entire weekend on the boat and had a great time.

Next weekend we plan to be at a local anchorage providing the weather forecast holds up. Can’t wait!

We ended up keeping ‘The Force’ in the water for the weekend, though the weather really wasn’t ever good enough to sail it.  Carol did take it out for about 10 minutes, but the current was too much, so she came back to the dock.

We still had a great time at the marina.  Conrad and Roxanne made it over from Louisiana to hang out on their boat, so they joined us for BBQ pulled pork that Carol made on Saturday.

Carol’s parents made it down to join us for dinner as well.  Brice ,then Ken and Sherie (Private Stock Too), showed up for cocktails with Ken bringing his guitar for some impromptu Karaoke.

We finally called it quits about midnight.  Carol, Blake, and I stayed on Monomoy for the night and headed home this morning for coffee and breakfast.

We didn’t get any real sailing in over the weekend, but we still had a great time.  Now if we can just dodge these upcoming tropical cyclones, then perhaps we’ll get another chance at sailing to Pirates Cove.

The photos today were taken by camera phone, so the quality isn’t the best, but you get the idea.

We spent the first half of the day catching up on yard work at home, so we didn’t make it out sailing, but we did go hang out on the boat at the dock for the afternoon and grilled burgers for dinner.

Our dock neighbor was returning from a day of wind surfing at the time we were done grilling the burgers, so we invited him over and he graciously accepted bringing a bottle of wine. Our dock neighbor lives in Quebec and speaks French as a native language, but does pretty well speaking English; he drives down to Florida during the summer months to enjoy sailing his Pearson 32 on Pensacola Bay. So we enjoyed the chit-chat.

The Oar House was busy in their typical fashion.

The sun was beautiful as it set behind the Chico Bridge.