Day 123, Year 4: Free and Easy Day
Day 123, Year 4: Free and Easy Day
Date: Sunday, February 22, 2009
Weather: No Changes-Beautiful, Hot, and Sunny
Location: Boat Lagoon Marina, Phuket Island
Sail Indonesia gave the tag “Free and Easy” to days that were not planned with set activities. I picked that up and now use it on the rare occasion that we have a day with little to do. We started our day with our morning walk to Windbird and then Mark did work at Windbird for a couple of hours grinding the bronze shoe on the bottom of the skeg that attaches it to the rudder. He also did some epoxy work. A few days ago when he removed the stern tube from the back of the keel, he found a hole in the back edge of the keel that had never been covered because it was covered by the stern tube. So that was the major work of the day, but we also worked on cleaning more stainless hardware from the boat, named and uploaded more photos from Singapore, and went grocery shopping.
We ended the day with a walk over to the Royal Phuket Marina for a taste of the Blues Festival that took place on Phuket Island this weekend. We walked over with our neighbors, Patti and Steve, and Larry who works in the chandlery here. Larry is from Michigan but lived in New Hampshire just before leaving the US to head around the world. The company was wonderful and the four groups that performed were great. It was also fun to be there with the rich and famous. The developer of the Royal Phuket Marina was sitting at the table next to ours with his guest, tennis star Martina Navratilova. I had no idea who was sitting at the table until they were gone but at least three different people noted separately that they were sure it was her. I should have known that it was someone important with all of the camera crews taking pictures. We listened to the Rich Harper Band from the US, a young woman singer from Australia named Kniki who sounded like a lot like Janis Joplin, The Blues Machine from Bangkok with the Thai equivalent of Tina Turner, and Ll’l Willie from the UK who plays the piano like Jerry Lee Lewis. We listened, watched, and danced the night away, and when we got home we had a great Skype call with Heather, Jed, and Sam. Sam has been sick with a stomach virus for the past two weeks, but he is starting to recover and he put on quite a show for us tonight. He brings things to the computer screen for us to look at and took us on a trip up to his bedroom to see his fish tank. For his first birthday, he got three fish-Carmen (named after Carmen Miranda because she has such a fancy headdress), Morley, and Smuttynose. They have doubled in size over the past year and it was fun to see them. He also rode his rocking dragon for us and then took us into his parent’s bedroom where he directed everyone to take a nap. He even went back to his bedroom to get his teddy bears. Heather said that he loves pretending to take naps, he just doesn’t like to really go to sleep. That’s our Sam.
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| 090222 Day 123 Boat Lagoon, Phuket, Thailand–Blues and Rock Night at Royal Phuket Marina |
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| 090222 Day 123 Sam on Skype |
