Thursday, October 27, 2011

New Grandparents head back to George Town, Exuma

Frisco, CO, ready to head back to Mystique

Traverse City, MI
We've had quite a summer, including visiting my aging parents and the rest of my family in Traverse City, MI to spend a few weeks with Dad, who was not doing well.  Then helped our very pregnant daughter, Megan and husband, Jeremy move into their  new house in Denver, then back to TC for my Dad's funeral and family celebration.





William Gordon O'Grady, future sailor 
We witnessed the birth of our first grandchild, William Gordon O'Grady (Will), the day after returning from TC.  We can already tell he's a natural born sailor!!  William was Jan's father's name and Gordon was the great sailor who was my dad.  Then to Cleveland for our son, Andy's Ph.D. defense, followed by a week following the first Colorado Cycling Pro Tour here.




Chief Shoveler 

Then to Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula for a wedding celebration and tour of the Olympic coast.  Now, after experiencing our first real snowstorm (8") this week we're ready for some warm weather aboard Mystique.  But first we'll spend the weekend in Bradenton at Mom's condo to oversee the installation of new carpeting and visiting friends in Orlando.  Fortunately it looks like Hurricane Rina will stay down in the Yucatan and not bother us!  We've seen our share of November hurricanes.


RIP, Boo
Our cruising plan is to spend some time enjoying our friends in George Town before heading north up the Exuma chain to Staniel Cay for Thanksgiving.  Our good friend Kathryn in GT lost our favorite dog friend, Boo, who was hit by a car near her home.  You've seen his pic in previous blog posts.  Our long time friend Bob Bruce will fly in and crew with us on our trip back to Jupiter, FL where we'll leave Mystique in his boat basin for the winter and fly home for the holidays with all four children and one grandson!!


As always, view pics from all our photo albums using the Flickr link to the left.

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