Headed back to the cold country

It's been kind of a long day. We were anchored out in Manatee Bay near Key Largo and our plans called for heading back to Manatee Boat Yard. We're going to leave the boat on the dock while we return to ND for Christmas and to take care of some committments in January. When we got to the boat yard, we wanted to have the holding tank pumped before leaving it for awhile. The pump out didn't work, so they promised they'd do it while we are gone. After getting tied up we went to get the art work for the hailing port for the back of the boat. One attempt was made by our broker before we put the boat in the water and that was unsuccessful. This time I had my artist wife use her magic and as you can see, it is now the only boat in the boat yard from Bismarck, ND

Now we have the unpleasant task of packing and semi cleaning the cupboards out. This will be minor compared to what we had to do when we first got here. We probably won't get a real early start tomorrow, since we have a couple of things to do and we don't want to hit the Miami traffic going to work. I hope I can get back to the blog while we're home, but if not I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. We feel pretty confident that 2012 is going to be better than 2011.