June 23, 2013 – t-shirts … t-shirts …. And more t-shirts ….

As Sea Level II and Malahide pulled out of RVYC Coal Harbor and out beyond this STUNNING city early Sunday morning, with an 8 ½ hour day ahead of us, I settled in with a latte and thought about how lucky I am to be able to share this adventure with my hubby, Cameron (who is ONE very HAPPY CAMPER right now!) and my dad, (who is SO engaged in everything we are doing and SO engaging with all the people we’ve introduced him to).  COOL hubby … COOL dad …. COOL adventure!!!

 

 

I truly appreciate how blessed I am.

Blessed yes, but I also realize … I am a terrible packer !! For some unknown reason, I have packed 35 t-shirts. I am embarrassed to admit that I even HAVE 35+ t-shirts but there you go…. a clean t-shirt pretty much every day of the trip!! I also have packed my entire supply of yoga pants of all varying lengths and colors. On top of that, I forgot to pack a few key pieces – my favorite boating shoes and hoodie. So … it looks like t-shirt, yoga pants and bare feet will be the outfit of choice (or should I say necessity).

But I digress ….

The trip to Grief Point Marina was beautiful … hit some high winds at Howe Sound (appropriately named the Howe Sound Howler) but thanks to Neptune (and that champagne) we managed just fine !!! We settled in to the marina, with the Dent’s aboard Colibri, not far behind. There, we went through the unwrapping of a very special Aussie care package sent to us by our Aussie contingent, who was unable to come on THIS adventure but plan to join us next year. The care package was a brilliant collection of Aussie flags, balloons, special teas & soaps, magazines, t-shirts, Tim Tams (yum), vegie-mite (gag) etc …. Sue and Jon were certainly there in spirit (thanks to a big photo of them that Penny had printed and blown up). Talbots had provided Old Salty Bastard t-shirts for the boys and the Dents had made up Team Trawler shirts for the boys, girls AND my dad !! …. Lots of laughs …. We all looked very stunning in our matching team trawler shirts as we headed up to the pub for a GREAT dinner at the marina.