This weekend we took a trip to visit Matt’s dad and step mom at their house in Fenwick Island, Delaware. We settled on our house last Wednesday (finally), and wanted to get some family/beach time in before the wave of boat projects start up again. Surprisingly, it felt sorta strange to not be be homeowners anymore. I expected to feel more indifferent, considering we’ve been on the boat for over a year now. I guess cutting that one last tie made our situation seem so much more… permanent. Not that we’re regretting our decision to live aboard for one minute… its just that we no longer have the option of moving back into the house, and back into our old life. As Boyz II Men put it so eloquently back in 1991, It’s so hard…. to say goodbye… to yesterday.
After an hour at the beach I got over it. We’re in total countdown mode now.
One thing I love about spending time at Jim & Patty’s place is that it’s so darn relaxing. They retired to the beach, so they wake up to paradise everyday. With them, there’s never any rush to try to cram in everything in a single week, which makes everything more relaxed (read: lazy) when were there. We sleep in until 9:00, spend another hour sitting on the couch talking (usually trying to figure out what day it is), then mosey on about our day. No aggressive agendas about places to go or things to do. We start our day with no plan, and do whatever we want, whenever the mood strikes. At night we caught up on our favorite Netflix shows – Orange is the New Black and House of Cards – since our subscription expired and streaming movies is damn near impossible with our marina wi-fi. We’ll have to pick back up when we visit again in September. God I miss you, Comcast.
Love sitting on their back deck and watching the sun set…. It reminds us to slow down and enjoy the NOW.