The pelagic crabs, normally native to Mexico, have come to visit our beaches and waters, confused by the El Niño weather condition. The last time they were here was in the 1983 El Niño year, as well. They look like tiny lobsters, or craw dads, bright red in color. Millions have washed up on the beaches this last weekend with the tide going back out before they could get off the beaches. The gulls are happy!
The things we get to see here, never cease to amaze my daughter and I. We both feel so blessed to be here. She asked me just today, to promise her we'd never leave... I had to explain to her that life was the most unpredictable of things, and I couldn't promise that. Life is fleeting and changing at all times.
My daughters school offers some pretty interesting after school enrichment classes. Hula, skateboarding, surfing, just to name a few. She's chosen the surfing classes, and had her first one a few weeks ago. It's 8 lessons, on Wednesdays, they provide the board & wetsuit, and 5 instructors for the 17 kids. She got up on her first wave, and several, thereafter. Until she took another board to the head and got spooked, she started just doing the knee thing. It was a 2 hour lesson, and by the end she was completely wiped out, but she had a blast and made a lot of forward progress. Tomorrow is lesson 2, so we'll see how it goes.
Another interesting thing is the week off of school in February- not spring break, but they call it "ski week." Apparently, everyone in the OC leaves to go skiing the third week of February so they just give the kids the week off. I'd never heard of that before....although one of my other girls, upon hearing that, wondered out loud why we hadn't moved here when she was of school age. Unfortunately, my youngest and I spent the week off, sick with terrible colds.
As far as the boat goes, we are still shuffling things around, trying to find the best way to store things, getting rid of unused items, learning how to flow, and things are getting easier for the 2 of us to handle. We've solved some fairly important power/battery charging issues, which is huge. One of my girls asked me where my prized recipes were at, and I was unable to accurately verify that information. I seem to have misplaced more things than I was really aware of, in the move. Hot water for longer than 2 minutes and wifi are still my biggest issues, and while I am handling those things, I certainly hope for a resolution, some day. We closed escrow on our home, finally, after 6 months - pretty big relief there.
Things are looking up 😃
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