Tuesday 3 September 2013

Our Genie Girl LOVES Wrightsville Beach And So Do We!!!!!


 
 
 
 
Well, we’re pretty sure we will never leave Wrightsville Beach and truthfully, as far as places to break down go, this is THE PRIMO location to have to sit and wait!  It’s true that it took several days to figure out was wrong with our dear, dear Genie (it’s important that she not know she was on the brink of walking the plank)…..normally, she performs beautifully, providing us with AC and water from our water maker and charges up our battery bank not to mention the myriad of other treats and excesses that make a cruisers life considerably more palatable.  The thing is, one day, while running along like the sweet thing she is, she just up and shut down!  Just like that!!!  No more anything!!!!  Uh Oh…is this payback for the days we spent at the beach????   Hmmmm….   Well, as seasoned cruisers know, a day at the marina can often turn into many days at the marina and sadly, we’ve had our share!  The thing is…it’s a boat, and granted, we consider her “our girl” but she hasn’t really gotten to love us yet, and we…..clearly…..haven’t gotten to know her well enough to know that she decides.  Everything.  If she wants to go to the marina, all she has to do is stop something from working and off we go….in search of an engineer who will purr and postulate and in the end, declare….”she’s a boat”!.. Like that somehow entitles her to spend oodles and oodles of her owner’s money and dictate where said owner will stop and for how long and how much it will cost them, thereby determining how long they will actually remain the owner.  I think, perhaps,  she has not yet decided to allow us to own her.  I have an idea that we have a few experiences to go through yet before we will have proven ourselves worthy of her good graces.  Call it a trial by fire.  And so, we continue along, marching to her very specific tune, as and when she desires because, you know, at the end of the day...she always teaches us something valuable or exposes us to a wonderful world that we hadn’t planned to slow down long enough to enjoy.  Now, if she would just stop being such a princess with the spending, we could certainly find a nice yin and yang….right?  Everybody just having a good time on a very loose timeline….ahhhhh….the journey.  :o)

 


Oh, by the way, did I mention Customs and Border Patrol came by today…I think our girl was winking at their boy all the way across the bay.  At any rate, they came along side us and, after finding out (we are such honest Canadians) that we had NEVER been boarded in the USA, they very politely asked if they could come aboard and have a little look around….but that’s another story for another time.

 


We’re having Kalik (Bahamian Beer) and lime flavoured taco chips for dinner tonight…..who says we don’t know how to live the high life!!!!


Until next time….

Love and hugs,
Shelley and Gregg


PS..I am sitting in an awesome, surfer inspired internet cafe/clothing store/surfer art place working on this blog and loving the music!  The staff are really great and if you get to Wrightsville Beach, check out the Annex, you won't be disappointed!