Immediately following our wedding reception, Greg and I set-out on a one-week sailing honeymoon. Greg was "Captain" and I was the "Chief Navigation and Safety Officer." I managed to get us horrifically lost only once during the trip....thank God for GPS and Greg's Ipad that had all the navigation charts for the San Juans downloaded! The weather varied between sunny with no breeze, great for sun bathing but bad for sailing, to 20-25 knot winds; great for sailing but precipitated the appearance of a few premature gray hairs on my scalp.
We managed to meet up with our friend Bob who's from Hong Kong but has property on San Juan Island. Bob and his girlfriend Michelle tried to make it to our wedding but were busy with a last-minute side trip to Europe; we were especially glad we were able to meet up with Bob while staying at Friday Harbor on the 4th and 5th of July. We bought fresh Dungeness crabs that Greg duly shelled that we ate with wild abandon (and local cocktail sauce) along with smoked salmon, BBQ'd corn on the cob and other Pacific Northwest delights.
It was also a special opportunity for us to celebrate my 38th birthday with our friends Jim and Kelly who sailed out on their 28'Cal Trust Me our final night of sailing. Jim and Greg have been friends for many years; the four of us worked together in Mongolia for two years as Greg was able to hire both Jim and Kelly for positions at ISU. Jim and Kelly are now teaching in Venezuela and we hope to meet up somewhere in the next couple years since we're all in South American now.
The link below will take you to my flickr account with some highlights of our sailing trip...truly the most relaxing week of our very tightly packed summer; move from Mongolia, have a weddng with guests flying in from around the country (and world), honeymoon for a week, meet with shippers, then move to Boliva all in less than 30 days. Whew.
I hope you enjoy.
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