until this friday, sailing didn’t present any particularly special enjoyment for me. it wasn’t bad but it wasn’t really that FUN either – just a nice way to spend an afternoon.
starting this friday, i am hooked. the wind, the water, the sun, the ability to relax – or be active – or take a nap – or be focused – or eat – and all with people you love – is just incredible. and all of this on the water. i can’t can’t can’t wait until it gets warm enough to swim!!
friday: we took out leo and ella, two of our dear friends. i’ve met leo at work about a year ago, and we’ve became great friends. (ella is his girlfriend). we went out around 5:30pm and came back after dark – it REALLY sucked to have to away from the boat! so we decided to sleep over the next night.
saturday morning was full of small problems and issues – i gave the wrong number to our next group of guests; tim forgot his bad at home; cats were out of food; so instead of getting to the boat by 11, i ended up getting on it at 1pm together with our guests (chloe, glenn, ivan and claudia – both couples i’ve met at work too). none the less, nothing else was forgotten, and we had an awesome sail until about 7-8pm. after a leisurely couple of hours on the shore, another kind sailor invited us for a night cruise.
that guy was AWESOME. he took us (10 people all included) for a cruise around inner harbour – that’s right near the waterfront – pulling up the docks (club), t&t (apparently no water parking is allowed), some massive boats, and eventually harbourfront, where we picked up burgers. that was INSANE. drive through, only… swim through. no one really complained either :-)
night was spent on the boat, which went awesomely well.
sunday – woke up (at 10am!) to a lovely breakfast made by tim, had a nice long waking up, and still spent a few hours cleaning (at times violently, as when i found a white cocoon of some bug and went on a massive angry bleaching rampage. the boat is now safe. tim helped.) and was done by like 1.
sailed from ~2pm until ~8pm, and then after a complicated situation with keys that involved my dad driving down (lets just say, out of 2 sets of keys, one was on the boat and one was in the water, when we were at the car) we got home by 9:30pm. exhausting. awesome. can’t wait to do it again.
to summarize: this weekend, starting at friday 5pm until sunday 9pm consisted of sailing, awesome people, awesome food, and awesome times. i can’t wait to do this again, and again, and again.
going to work tomorrow will be VERY VERY difficult.
note to self: june 12th was the day i fell in love with sailing.