YAHOO for the Saints! Watching the Super Bowl game at a sports bar in Salinas, Ecuador was a great way to end a week of finishing up the last of the filling of hull holes, doing catch-up projects, trying to ignore the daily whine of the chain saw being used to rebuild an old fishing boat, and listening to the first full day of rain from inside Sidewinder, as it liquefied the dirt on her deck. Highly motivated, we pleaded with Andreas to move us to the quiet end of the marina, and successfully we have relocated. Ah!!! No more constant loud, obnoxious buzzing!
The change in the weather brought thousands of peaceful winged ants who huddled on the deck in strange clusters and as the rain came, they either found safe protection under shit on the deck, or they perished. David and I moved sails and other stuff into a newly purchased old storage box, and I spent a few hours yesterday massacring hundreds of non-biting ants and cleaning Sidewinder´s deck for the first time in weeks. PHEW! She is such a happy boat once again! Today, Alfredo will finish filling the last of the tiny holes, and then they will sand her one more time. We hope they will begin the painting of the protective epoxy coats and finally we will finish with the anti-foul layers later this week or early next week.
With two single-handed cruiser friends, Tim, who is on his way back to Oregon after sailing thousands of open seas miles, and Dave, on his way to Peru and then back to Colorado, we taxied to a new sports bar owned by an ex-pat to watch the well-deserved sensational Saints topple the Colts. We met some other interesting gringos from Pennsylvania who were vacationing in Ecuador and drank many huge bottles of $1.50 Ecuadorian beers. It was great fun celebrating such success with the Saints! Life is good!
We are working on getting our permission to anchor in three to five places in the Galapagos and have heard from some other cruisers there that the money spent on the autografos is well worth it. We are also still hoping that the train tracks up to Machu Pichhu are going to be repaired by March so that we can still go there for our land adventure. We shall see. Love to all, Suzi
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Hi,
I hope you can make it to Machu Pichu but Manu is a possible alternative.
The Super Bowl, and the Saints win, was the most watched TV program in the history of broadcast history!!!!
I'm glad that you could see it!
Best regards,
"the flea"
Go Saints! Yeee-haaa! (Hmmm... I have no idea what the game is or the significance of it. Did one bunch of dudes kick a ball between two poles more often than the other bunch of dudes? (Yeah, I'm not really into it as you can see...)
Good to hear you got away from the chain saw. Always felt a bit nervous around them...
Peru is great. Friendly and lovely climate. Can't wait to hit the trades, though. Can't wait to see you guys!
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