Wrapping up our days at Green Turtle Bay

Our days are numbered before we pull in the dock lines and start the trek south leaving what has been our summer home for this year, Green Turtle Bay in Grand Rivers, Ky. (www.greenturtlebay.com) It's a bitter/sweet feeling since we have made some new friends but now have to leave not knowing if we will pass this way again.
Ah, but isn't that the life of a cruiser? Making friends only to move on to the next destination. Still it's funny how when you least expect it you cross paths with someone you met on another body of water or at a marina in a different part of the country in a completely different year. So I guess it isn't goodbye GTB friends. It's more like. Until we meet again. It's been fun!

Speaking of crossing paths, we had company this past week who we first met in the Peterborough Lift Lock in Canada while doing the Loop in 2011. Bru & Sandy who live in Virginia came to visit.

The Arrival.

The remainder of the first day was spent catching up on each others lives since we had last met. That evening Pam made Beef Stroganoff for dinner and it was delicious. Watching Dancing With the Stars after dinner saved Bru and I from a tortuous game of Dominos!

Bru being violated by Pam's foot. (She's plugging in his computer.)

Morning Nerd's!
One of the consistent sights while travelling with Bru & Sandy was that each morning when I would get up I'd look outside to check that all was well around us and I would see the silhouette of Bru's head through the windshield of Coconuts as he looked at his computer. Thus the significance of the above picture. Nothing has changed!

We had a great time while they were visiting even though we only managed to get in a short boat ride because of the weather.

One of the days we visited downtown Paducah.

Downtown buildings.

Waiting for the bus.

One of the murals on the flood wall along the Ohio.

Stencil at every storm sewer downtown.

The Ohio by day.

The Ohio by night.

We found a great $5 martini special at Di Fratelli's (www.difratelli.com) to close out our Paducah visit.

Come on boy's. It's domino time!

We visited the Adsmore house in Princeton, Ky.

Cheers!

Re-learning the Electric Slide. No alcohol was harmed in this tutorial.

All too soon their visit was over as they headed back to Virginia. It was fun and hopefully will continue in Florida this winter.

Pam and I will stick around GTB for another few days before making one last trip home. There are still projects to take care of although most of them are minor in nature. One thing we did accomplish was to get a sign board made that would be visible to boaters coming up on our stern. Our existing name on our transom is blocked from view by our dinghy. Although not as big and not real fancy it will enable people to see who just rocked their world. Just kidding. We're a Sea Ray Trawler after all!

New nameplate.

Back at home;

Ellie & Franklin found one of the company busses in Gays Mills, Wisconsin while picking apples over the week-end. Of course Franklin wanted to drive the bus!