Easter long week end (Moreton and Peel Islands)

4 days off + good (enough) weather + cruising friends wanted to join us = enough reasons to go out in the bay, shake Merlin's sails and have loads of fun.

Our French cruising neighbours and friends, Kappa and Singa, are leaving Dockside so we decided to meet in the bay and enjoy being anchored all together.

The kids came on board for few games before we left (Merlin seems to be a very child friendly boat).

Victor and Felix had a dive refresher course. The sandy bottom wasn't as appealing as some Pacific reefs but they enjoyed counting the fish and observing the crabs eating other dead crabs. Clea had her first try breathing off Greg's DV. It seems she will be hooked too! (note the wet suits even if the water is 25deg!)

We had fun again on the dunes, enjoyed the sun, and it was even better to be there with some friends.

We left the dunes Sunday afternoon as the wind was turning and anchored at Peel Island. Greg didn't wait long to take the spinnaker out of its locker and woosh we went!

This morning, we picked up all our little friends and went ashore. The kids had a "shelter building" competition and enjoyed their last hours together (... as the skippers it seems).

It was great being out, great being with cruising friends (we went back to some cruising routine even without thinking of it), great to have this time off and great to be flying our spinnaker again!

We are docked "home" again with sparkling eyes, sand in our hair, and a smile on our face!

Hope you all had a erfect Easter Week-end!

New dimension to reading

Felix started browsing and borrowing more and more books from the "Sciences" section at the library.

Today, he borrowed a book called " Physics - Why matter matters". He started reading the first few pages, read aloud the following quotation "Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler" (from a famous guy named Albert Einstein) and then asked me "isn't this a paradox?"

La P'tite Gazette de la semaine

Les bobos de Dockside:

Clea, casse-cou depuis toujours et sans doute casse-cou encore, en sautant d'un banc, a atteri sur son visage plutot que sur les pieds. 3 jours apres cela s'est etendu sur toute la joue et a vire au bleu... ce qui fait ressortir ses yeux!

Un orage carabine nous a surpris dimanche alors que nous profitions d'un BBQ au parc. Courir pieds nus sous la pluie en poussant un velo fut l'occasion de me casser un doigt de pied (pour une fois, ce n'est pas a bord en tapant dans l'une des chaises).

Ce soir, visite guidee de Merlin non pas a d'eventuels acheteurs mais aux louveteaux et scouts. Grands yeux, plein de questions, etonnements et un Greg passionne qui explique comment on hisse une grand'voile.

... pendant que notre casse-cou fait le singe

Dans 2 jours ce sont les vacances et nous sommes tous impatients. On croise les doigts pour que la meteo soit "compatissante" et nous epargne ce vent d'ouest actuellement prevu.

Un week-end en douceur

Vendredi après l’ecole, les garcons sont partis en camp avec les scouts. Nous venons de les recuperer, tout sales, tout fatigues, mais tout contents et avec plein d’histoires a nous raconter.

(Victor et Felix avant le depart)

(au retour: sourire un peu plus grand et enfants beaucoup plus sales)

Clea s’est fait chouchouter en fille unique temporaire. Cinema hier et aujourd’hui en vadrouille avec son tres bon copain de ponton (du cata Kappa, famille Francaise qui attend la fin de la saison cyclonique).

Un week-end tranquillou pour nous, sans gros ménage, sans visite, a prendre le temps de bouquiner, de cuisiner pour des copains.

(Greg s'est occupe du dessert)

Nous avons profite de notre matinee sans enfant pour aller faire du VTT avec en prime quelques egratignures et une bosse pour moi!

Le vent se leve et avec lui on respire a nouveau un peu. Notre week-end s’acheve sereinement.

Homework

Clea was asked to draw her garden, so she drew it!

Her teacher might not understand her definition of "garden"!