Hope Town

Hi All,
We're in Hope Town still, getting ready to fly back to the US for almost two weeks to see family and friends. The weather here in Hope Town has not been great. The wind has subsided but now it's raining. And raining. And raining. There have been some breaks, but not many.

We did get nice weather on Sunday so we were able to attend a music festival here with eight different Country and Western song writers benefiting several local charities. You've probably never heard of these people because they don't perform their own songs, others do. The likes of Carrie Underwood, Tim McGraw and Rascal Flats perform their songs. Before the music started we had dinner with our friends Lee and Randy (Silver Maple) and Brian and Casandra (Miss Informed). It was a great evening concluded with fireworks over the harbour. And right over our boat! Which we weren't on but fortunately there was enough wind to kept the embers from falling on it.

Earlier in the day we took our bikes ashore and rode them down the island some. We stopped along the way to have lunch and watch two guys kite surf. It was cool to watch them get their stuff all lined up and then start out. It looked like a lot of fun but also something you'd need a lot of practice to do well. Like most things. Here are a couple of pictures of our view where we stopped for our picnic lunch.

While it's been raining we've done exciting things like laundry, replace the float switch on the bilge pump and trace down the bad smell we haven't ever been able to get completely eliminated. But we found the source so while in the US we're going to buy the parts we need to hopefully fix it once and for all!

This will likely be the last post for a couple of weeks. We're supposed to be back in the Bahamas on December 22nd and I'll post again once we're back. We're both a bit anxious about the trip. Since July 11, when we left Kemah, tomorrow night will only be the third day / night we haven't been on the boat. Our plan is to catch the ferry from Hope Town to Marsh Harbour tomorrow, stay in a hotel and then get up early and get a taxi to the airport for our flight to Nassau. From Nassau we go to Miami and then on to Dallas.

Take care and if we don't speak to you or I don't post again until after Christmas, please have a very Merry Christmas!
Brian