Stuck in Paradise!

So here we are... another year goes by and we are getting our boat ready for another fantastic trip! Unfortunately we are moving nowhere fast and have had a few minor delays. They're really pretty big delays but on the bright side our boat is still floating! We arrived in Florida 2 weeks ago from today and made it safely here. I had a week left of Spring Break and spent my days swimming in my Gramma and Grampa's pool and hot tub, going to movies, water parks with diving boards and if I got really gutsy I would occasionally help with our boat. We have a lot of new improvements this year like the stairs going down to our boat and some of the walls and doors are now varnished so they look really pretty and shiny! Other parts are oiled and they are sort of a dull color. It looks really great. We also got a brand new electric head (Toilet)! You are probably thinking that's really cool. Well before, we had to manually flush with a hand pump. We had to bend over and pull up and down on the handle for about 30 times. Now all you have to do is push a button! So getting back to the delays..... As you may not know our mast was painted by the Mack Sails Team (Sailing Company) and they had to take all the lines and wires out of the mast when the mast was out of our boat. On Thursday we sailed down to a place called Crackerboy Boat Works. My Mom drove down and my Dad and I sailed the boat down which is about 2 hrs. In the car it's about 25 min. We average about 6 kts. (on good days) which means 'nautical miles per hour', which is a measure of speed or velocity. A nautical mile is about 1.15 times the distance of a regular mile. So wind blowing 69 kts in equal to 77 mph (69 x 1.15 = 77 mph) and for us to travel 60 miles in our sailboat takes about 10 hours and in a car traveling 60 mph it will only take about 1 hour! When we got to Cracker boys they hauled our boat out of the water on a travel lift which has 2 slings that go under our boat and brought it up out of the water. After we were done cleaning our mast, bottom of the boat and putting on a new propeller, the crane came over and picked up our mast and lowered it into our boat. They forgot a lot of things. The messenger and the wires on top of our mast were messed up. They lost our baby stay! (A rod supporting the mast.) They had to cut our spinnaker halyard because it got caught around the mast, plus a bunch of other things. Not to mention that there are a bunch of projects on the boat that are not going as planned. So now we're back at Gramma and Grampa's dock and it's going on 3 weeks here but still living the Life. I am also doing school each day. Thought I'd tell you that before you get too jealous! Another thing that's cool is we met up with our friends we met a couple years ago in the Bahamas, Priority, and spent a couple days with them which was fun. Now my Aunt Pam and Aunt Cynthia are here and we all have happy smiles on our face! :) So everything is well here and maybe soon we'll get over to the Bahamas, but as for now here's to another year!