Sailing, sailing, sailing the ocean blue

Hi everyone. It has been another exciting day down in Mexico. Grammy and Poppie were going to take us up to the mountains to a town called Rincon....hey, haven't I been there before? They have a really nice market and place to have lunch before we go to the beach and swim in the afternoon. But during breakfast, Poppy got a call and our plans changed. Instead we are going sailing today.

We pack up our day bags and walk down to the bus stop. Many buses come by us but none of them are the right ones. Down here, they paint the stops of where the buses go on the front window. One finally comes by that will take us out to the marina, which is on the other side of town from where we are. I get to ride the bus for free but everyone else has to pay 5 pesoes...about 30 cents US. They should really charge more than that. These buses have the worse suspension in the world!!! It feels like they have square wheels on them and the muffler vents right into windows. As things go, I fall asleep on the bus and wake up some place else.

I wake up in the bottom of this deep cave like place. I roll out of bed and there is a big ladder leading up to the top. I get half way up with Daddy picks me up and I am on the boat and we are leaving the marina. Poppy's friend, Dorr, has a 32 foot sailboat the Poppy races on each week. They have been racing together for the past couple of years and have won every race they have entered this year.

Once outside of the marina, we set the mainsail and raise the jib and we are off. Cruising around 6 knots, that is about 6.3 mph and having a fun time. Poppy even let me drive the boat.

We had a great day of sailing. We were out for almost 3 hours. I ran all over the boat, up and down the ladder to the hull where the galley, sleeping area's and extra sails are kept. We got to see all of PV since we sailed to the south and then game back up with the wind where we really picked up alot of speed.

We also also saw a sea turtle and lot's of pelicans. I did get to see the water splashing around from where the humpback whale had jumped out of the water. Poppy spotted it and Daddy saw it but I did not...boooooo

Hope to update my page again later today with what Mommy did all day on Friday.

Bye for now.