Jon has been away a lot recently for work. I hate it. I do not know how couples that are away for days, months, a year at a time do it. I need my husband and while I may occasionally enjoy a weekend away I do not like being away from him often. Last year I took a mini vacation before I started my new job and went to Md to see my parent's boat. They had just moved it to a new marina in Md. My friend Sharon and I went for the weekend and we had a blast. A week later I finally felt like I was off the boat.
I have been trying since last 4th of July to make time to take Jon with me. Recently we found a teen at church willing to watch our zoo and we have taken advantage of a trip with out dogs twice.
We drove up Friday afternoon and made it in about 5.5 hrs. We hung out with everyone and showed Jon around. We all went to the restaurant directly in front of my parent's boat, Waterman's, and had dinner with the group. We then headed to another bar/restauarant for dancing. Jon actually danced.
Saturday we were up early and ready to head out for a day on the water. We took a short boat ride to Swan creek and hung out all day with two other boats. Only a few people enjoyed the cold water. Saturday we went to Waterman's again for dinner and stayed for dancing.
Sunday we decided it would be nice enough to anchor out for the next night. We took a longer boat ride with 3 other boats and headed to Dobbin's Island. It is a small 7 acre island that is popular for people taking day trips. It was hot and all of us enjoyed the water. We saw a police boat board 3 boats. ALso there were many idiots. One smaller boat anchored and went to shore. The two guys were gone for hours. I had been watching the boat swing from one direction to the other and come very close to another boat. The owner of that boat finally got out moved the boat and anchor of the boat. Idiot owner came back hours later and was not ok to be driving a boat. The funny thing was his boat was now stuck on the sandbar. We had to be further away from the island because we had a sailboat with us and it needs at least 4.5 ft of water. We ended up being the wave breaker over the sandbar and at times it was a little rocky. 3 out of 4 boats had a grill so dinner was yummy. We all hung out and talked and listened to music until it was late.
Monday morning the oh so smart people were out early and one guy drove over all 3 of our front anchors. It took about 10 minutes to get him off of our lines. The scary thing is they hadn't even started drinking yet. We were glad to be leaving. We had a yummy grilled breakfast and headed out to Swan Creek again. A boat we were traveling with has an older dog and he was starting to act funny so we headed back for the dock instead. It was a good thing we headed back because while she was taking him potty he passed out on the dock. It was scary and we are waiting to see how he is at the vet today. We were not very organized and it took forever to walk over to dinner and get our stuff ready so we did not leave till around 7:30. We got home very late this morning. It was a successful trip and we plan to head back for July 4th.
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