Come New Year and it seems nobody was sleeping through midnight but me! I heard the band play Auld Lang Syne when I was already in bed and remember nothing else, but all blog readers will be witnesses to the fact that at 11 pm I was awake writing. Juan says he woke up at 12:20, and Idette and Mike say they woke up at 11:58 and watched the revelers in the bar through the binoculars. I just record what they say, I cannot attest to anything but snoring.
On the 1st however we made up for not popping the champagne to see the old year off, by celebrating the new with mimosas and a wonderful breakfast. Then we went off to Green Turtle Cay to see their Carnival which takes place on New Year and is called Junkanoo. We went in a bus rented by the cruisers in the marina and then took the ferry. The parking lot where we left the bus was packed. The Junkanoo is popular with the Bahamians themselves. There were food stands in the streets and after the carnival parade was over we went for a walk on the island and people watched.
The forecast was for the weather to turn last night and it did, it started blowing really hard and it was hard to sleep with with the water hitting the hull. It blew the whole day today and is likely to continue tomorrow. The boat rocks and heels and it has cooled considerably. Not fun. Hopefully it will be over in a couple of days. In the meantime we continue to do things around the boat and add lines to make sure we don't take off like Peter Pan's boat and end up in Neverland!
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