Hallelujah!

Our marine refrigerator repair guy came yesterday and filled the system with coolant and hunted down the leaks. This morning I woke up to a freezer that was reading twenty two degrees and fridge that was reading forty. I am so happy and I can’t wait to go. It seems like it has taken me this last three months to arrive here. Being forced to go out to provision by myself has made me practice my Spanish and I can now get by and am confident trucking through the city on my own. In the beginning I really relied on Brett as translator and felt like a fish out of water if I had to do any errands by myself. Now I know my way around Puerto Vallarta, am taking the bus with confidence and have a great sense of accomplishment knowing that I have done so much to get us ready for this trip. Today is Wednesday and we leave tomorrow. I will spend the day shopping and preparing food so that our first week at sea will be prepared foods and I will have a chance to get into the swing of things before I have to do a ton of cooking at sea. Our last load of laundry on shore has been done and every nook and cranny of the boat is stuffed to the gills with food, we could be at sea for sixty days and not go hungry. One of the things I will miss in Mexico is the unguarded danger of it all, the sense that you must take care of yourself and the performers who come on the buses play the guitar and sing for tips. The ocean is in front of us and I am so excited I am crawling out of my skin. When we left Los Angeles we were only going to Avalon and I was so stressed out. Now I am eager to meet the challenge ahead of us and see what is out there. I can’t wait.