So we got this free calendar. It came with our new radio antenna. Its a real nice calendar, every month of the year is a photo of a different VHF or a different hand held radio. It is just beautiful. Unfortunately that calendar just had no holidays on it, nothing to celebrate. Thus, the first annual Cactus Day celebration was born. We started Cactus Day with a pancake breakfast aboard Matilda and one of the first hair washings in far too many days. Then to the beach for cactus salsa a bit of tequila, and we closed the night with a lobster hunt. Next holiday...the first annual Muy Bueno Day. (Our lives just keep getting more and more absurd the more the sun and saltwater find their way to our brains.) Thats right w were celebrating all things that are muy bueno. Egg mcmuffins for breakie, The Princess Bride story time, tostada lunch with friends, the first annual "great muy bueno dinghy race," dinner and jam sessions. Que Bueno!! Onto more important things, "who won the great muy bueno dinghy race?" you may be asking. Well friends, LVII (our dinghy) had a great sail made of a blue tarp, boat hook, boat brush and human mast. The misty crew took first place(out of 3). Was there any doubt? So friends, we will be looking forward to celebrating Cactus Day (March 1st) and Muy Bueno Day (March 12th) in the years to come.
On to other Logistics. Misty had her best days of sail in the recent past on our way up to Puerto Escondito. Misty doing 6.5 to 7 knots heeled over on a west wind. Couldn't have asked for better weather to scoot our final push north. That's right, this is as far north as we go (this time). It's time to start making our way south to La Paz. Apologies for not writing more but time is short and the wind is calling. We are headed out for at least a week but will try to post some more home videos in the near future.
Luigi, Hornsby and I would like to leave you with a little something from the story "Danny the Champion of the World". (Its good for the soul so we recommend reading to yourself or to little ones in your lives.)
"Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death."
-R. Dahl
from Ch. 2 "The Baby Austin"
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