GOOD NEW, MORE GOOD NEW AND EVEN BETTER NEWS

There was so much good happening to us in the last couple of days that now we can share our plans with you all. First of all, the weather is looking so positive for us to leave the United States of America for Bimini on Sunday. We plan on leaving Stuart on Friday morning and no rush either, a short day to Lake Worth, Florida where we will anchor. Paul is one up at dawn when leaving to go anywhere by boat, but not this time as we do not have a long distance to go. Saturday we plan to travel to Ft. Lauderdale and leave on the Sunday morning for Bimini. All weather for the next while is totally in our favour, God is watching over us for this wonderful journey!

Second... our experience at the Border Control... Homeland Security was a simple matter, our Officer there in Ft. Pierce, gave us an extension on our cruising permit and now we just leave, such a simple matter. We have not had good experiences with our cruising permits along the coastline over these months.

Third, Yahoo, the brand new radar that arrived today is working and Paul has a fantastic new experience when traveling. This is great and now we even feel more secure. It is nice sometimes when those fast motoryachts come from behind... we will see them on the radar. Our boat is always one cruisers like to come close by to see.

We are finally provisioned! Our BMO Mastercard will get a break finally. I do want to fly to Europe soon so those airmiles will boost us up to First Class... Paul does not know that part of the flying yet, but he will days from now when he reads this entry, wink wink!

Please see the wonderful "toys" that Paul bought for us and our guests. We sure look forward to everyone enjoying the Bahamas with us. Wal-Mart and West Marine's shares just went up with all our shopping.

We also got two underwater "slings" to "hunt" for fish or lobster... google that.

Paul has oil for 2 boat engine, big generator and the little generator. (we have the storage, maybe I had to sacrifice a bit and not buy as many boxes of white wine, hahahaha)

We have heard stories of boaters waiting to go to the Bahamas but are awaiting mail from there to give them permission to come with their dog... yes that is right, when you want to bring your dog to the Bahamas you must provide the proper papers in advance then they will mail you the proper permits. Now we do not have a dog and are not awaiting or "proper papers" but I do have a pet plant ... a Pony Tail Palm Tree, nice and small and low maintenance. There is no poop scooping or anything!

The brand new StainMaster Carpet fits 99% here in the saloon. We are content.

Dave and Traci have arrived in the Bahamas safely and are awaiting us to come. We will meet them near the island of Rose Island. They do not blog as often, so I know their family reads ours (hi Cardinal, Ontario).

We are warm and toasty here and I know from B.C. to Ontario it is snowing badly!

We will blog soon again, stay posted.