I spent all morning
cooking, and that’s no fun on a small boat with no counter space, no room to
maneuver, a fridge that is so small and deep, that everything has to come out
each time I’m looking for something. I
made a double batch of cabbage salad (which was unnecessary because there was
soooo much food), deviled eggs that would not peel (so I kept them for our
table), and a gelatin cheesecake (only because that cream cheese had been in
the fridge almost from the beginning) for us for later.
At noon Ken and I
dinghied over to the park to help set up.
All the tables inside were already claimed so we moved a round table on
to the lee side of the building and set it for our group. Lisa was coming from Ft Lauderdale to join
us, and Katja and Geoff and Tom and Cathie would be at our table. All the boaters converged at the park between
1:30 and 2pm , tying off dinghies to the two small docks or pulling them onto
the grass. An estimate of 150 of us
turned out for an amazing buffet of food.
We pigged out and drank our fill of wine (everyone supplied their own),
then listened to the live music and talked to other cruisers. We saw Burt and Prue from Exuberant and
they’d been here a week and a half and we hadn’t even seen them! (oh, we were
shopping—we didn’t run into them on the buses.)
Late afternoon we
came back to the boat where we could hear the music and eat that gelatin
cheesecake. Yes, we apparently had room.
We took Lisa to the dinghy dock and came back and scratched our no-see-em
bites. My legs are peppered with
bites. There is a downside to paradise!
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