Exercising at nearby park

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Visiting Andy's workplace and sampling the wares...

Checking out the dough...

Back onboard Windspell with our new Christmas gift from Heather  & Hayden..a handmade quilt!

We arrived at Coconut Grove on November 27th and took a slip at Dinner Key Marina.  We have enjoyed being able to jump off the boat and go for a daily run and workout in a local park.  Being dockside also made it easy to re-provision for going over to the Bahamas.  We stocked up on dry goods, spare parts, and fuel.. We had a quick visit home December 6-11 to have an early Christmas with Jenn, her partner Eric and his parents-Heather & Hayden, and our son, Andy.  We decorated a tree,  had a great Christmas dinner at Jenn & Eric's, and exchanged gifts.  Eric's mom, Heather, blew Walter & me away with her gift to us...a handmade quilt with sailboats on it.  Each sailboat has our boat's name, "Windspell" on it.  On the Monday we toured Jenn's workplace, Iogen and Andy's workplace, Swiss Pastries.  It was a wonderful opportunity to have a window into their worlds and we are very proud of them!

We returned to our boat and continued to stock it with fresh produce and water.  We are hoping to have a weather window on Monday, December 17 to cross over to Bimini Island, Bahamas...it is supposed to be south winds.  We wait for south winds so they are in the same direction as the Gulf Stream to make the smoothest crossing.  It will take a full day to cross the 43 nautical miles. Once we clear customs, we will have several more day sails to get over the the Exumas -a chain of islands that stretch south.