I know it has been a long time since I posted, but I have been busy on the other blog ( excuses, escuses). So, anyway.... this weekend the annual Christmas Parade celebration. We have had Christmas parades in weather so cold that you did not want to get out of the boat. But this weekend, the weather was beautiful. So Travis Lake Marina did things right!!
First, we ate - starting at 4:00 pm, everyone was invited to come have appetizers the ship store - UFLOATEM. The new owners let us bring food and drink down to the deck of the store and we visited and ate enough food to fill us all up (not remembering that after the boat parade, we would be eating dinner over on L-dock.
These are the new ship store owners, Lance, Teddy and Veronica. We are thrilled that they have chosen to be not only boat owners but store owners. We have all been wanting UFLOATEM to come back to its glory days and now there is hope.
This is just a sampling of the group. PD took tons of pictures, but I don't like to post closeups without a person's permission and we were way too busy having fun for me to remember to ask about that.
The evening was approaching and the weather was beautiful. Here is a shot of Starnes island just before sunset.
This was the leader in the boat parade last night. It just happens to belong to the president of the marina association and his wife, Mark and Janie Miller.
This is not the greatest shot, but at least one can see that there were lots of boats in the prade this year which was a wonderful sight.
We rode on a houseboat belong to friends on M-dock. Since you can't see the face of this fellow boat owner, I thought I would post the picture to show that we were having a good time.
So... a good time was had by all.
PD did actually get some work in this morning before we left to come back home.
He did some generator check up.
And then he worked on the old and heavy batteries. The thought is to replace them eventually with something lighter and easier to handle.
