Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Errands, Friends and Fun


Errands, Friends and Fun    ....   18/19th Sept 2012

Yesterday was a bit of a different day.  Mike has a tooth that has been bothering him and had managed to get an appointment with our dentist in Weston, MA.  The traffic was astonishing, despite leaving East Greenwich at 6:30 am it seemed we were going to be late for his 9:00 am appointment.  The dentist sent him off to the endodontist (?) who was unconvinced that the problem is the tooth that Mike thinks is hurting (and did nothing).  I guess they don’t think much of Mike as a tooth-sayer.

While we were in our old stomping grounds, we did a few errands.  These included picking up some medications from the pharmacy, acquiring some additional warm clothes (those few weeks in Maine were an eye-opener) and purchasing some second hand books.  I managed to have lunch with one friend at AZ (also saying hello to many others) and dinner with another friend.  Mike arranged to go to the climbing wall with a set of his pals and then had dinner (and one or two ‘hops-teas’) with a few more.  We spent the night at our friend Gunther’s house.  He was kind enough to offer us not only beds for the night but also a fantastic breakfast of cappuccino and croissants.  Almost enough to make you think you were in Paris…

Today we returned to the boat and the glamorous chores.  Mike did some more work on installing the monitor into the holding tank.  I continued to sand down the teak “eyebrow” that goes around the top of the cabin on the outside.  Mike got one coat of varnish on this before we gave up for the day.  Tomorrow we will start on replacing the hoses on the holding tanks and hopefully get more coats of varnish on the "eyebrow".  Ah, the joys of the boating life.…

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