Day 77, Year 10: Guess Where We Are
Date: Friday, December 26, 2014
Weather: Sunny, Temp in the 80’s F
Location: Guests Aboard Sunday Money, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Where in the world are Mark and Judy? Well, we are certainly not where we were supposed to be tonight. We are not back in Little River aboard Windbird. Due to air traffic control issues, whatever that means, we are in Ft. Lauderdale spending the night aboard Sunday Money. This is the gorgeous 100 foot Hatteras superyacht owned by Ed Kirwin’s son. Ed and Lynne are our cruising friends that crossed the Indian Ocean at the same time as Windbird. They are here in Ft. Lauderdale preparing to set sail for the Bahamas for the winter. So when the Spirit Airline agent in San Juan broke the news to us that our flight was going to be delayed and that we would not be able to make our connection from Ft. Lauderdale to Myrtle Beach tonight, we had to quickly decide whether to stay in San Juan until tomorrow night or go on to Ft. Lauderdale and stay there. The only Spirit flight to Myrtle Beach leaves Ft. Lauderdale at 8 something each night. We just didn’t know what to do. If we stayed in San Juan we were afraid the same thing would happen tomorrow night, so we decided that we had to go on to Ft. Lauderdale and figure things out from there. Then we remembered that Ed and Lynne were in Ft. Lauderdale, so we gave them a call. They graciously agreed to pick us up from the airport and put us up here for the night. Thank goodness for wonderful friends. Thank you, thank you to Ed and Lynne, the Sunday Monday crew, and Ed’s son and his wife. I’ve never been aboard such a luxurious yacht, so this is a special treat. But this delay means that we will just have Sunday and Monday to ready Windbird for the sail south. It will be tight, but we can do that. Mark jokingly sent an email to Lee and Lynda Kaufman telling them that he thought one of them should just sail Sea Turtle and the other sail Windbird down here and that we would just wait for them here in Florida! But instead, we’ll spend tomorrow hanging out with Ed and Lynne and casing out Ft.Lauderdale. We hope to be here again in just two weeks, so tomorrow will be a sneak preview.
We left Justin, Jo, Ziggy, and Coco just before noon to head to the airport in San Juan. I have a really hard time with goodbyes, so I was a bit teary-eyed. But we had such a wonderful visit with lots of happy memories. We got to spend quality time with Ziggy and Coco and feel like we know so much more about them now. We enjoyed seeing some of the West Coast of Puerto Rico and hope to return again to spend more time with the kids and to do some exploring. Thank you, thank you, thank you JJZ&C for a wonderful Christmas.
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