Charlie at the Butterfly Conservatory |
Hobie very excited to be holing a butterfly |
Butterflies were landing on my hat, so I put it on Hobie, then told him there was a butterfly on it, so "hold still and I'll take your picture!!" |
Hobie and Mom Cross stiching |
Charlie trying to use the outboard like Dad |
We had our picture taken at this anchor when LeeAnn was pregnant with Hobie. Again after Hobie was born, and now with Charlie! |
Learning from the Soldiers at the Fort on Mackinac Island |
Locked up in the Fort Jail! |
"PRIVATE" says the sign. Challenge accepted. |
"FIRE!" |
Soldiers don't smile! |
Day 37: lost in the forest. |
"I love you Nash!" |
crunch crunch crunch rock candy! |
Hiking on Mackinac Island |
It's a long way down. |
This will be a nice picture. Hobie stand here and smile. I said SMILE. |
Stay away from the light! |
We'll get a nice picture of the gazebo with Hobie running and screaming in front. |
The fort on Mackniac Island no one goes to. |
Passed out Charlie. |
It's 1,487 steps to the fort on top of the Island. This is when no one else comes here. |
Looking out the window in the morning. A favorite activity. Please don't throw things out the window. |
At the public school playground on Mackinac |
Banging on pots and pans. This is making lemons out of lemonade. Or whatever. |
Just now found this recently and am quite surprised by your ages. Here I was thinking this was being done by a couple of 30-40 somethings when they first started, and you actually got right into this after graduating high school in '03!!(I graduated in '01)
ReplyDeleteSailing on a budget and turning it into a lifestyle after a decade plus of doing so!!!
I'm kind of land-locked and paying all the usual bills myself right now, but with the recent political events in the land, I'm attempting to fast-track my way out of the trap and see about setting sail myself!!
Yeah, I think I'd be more freaked out about Trump if we didn't have an escape pod ready to go!
ReplyDeleteYeah I bought my first boat for 5,000 with a down payment of 2,500. Took two years for me to pay off the 2,500 balance. I bought the second boat for 9,000, and that is the one we took south. We came back home in 2009 and put every penny towards saving up for a Lagoon 380. When we had enough of a down payment, we bought one, then put every penny into paying it off. We went with out a lot of stuff our friends were buying, and took a lot of heat for "how come you guys never do anything fun?" but... now that we own a sweet catamaran we don't get those comments too much any more! Well I guess we still get them sometimes because a catamaran is still freaking expensive to maintain.