Month Vacation on Pieridae

Its now May vacation for 4 weeks. This is the HMS Bounty that passed our marina.

 A clean boat before we left the dock for our trip.

 The weekend after St pattys day Mom and Dad brought down my nephew Cole for a weekend on the boat it was cold but he didnt seem to mind lol.

 Capt. Cole

 Capt. Eddie my dad

2012 wow its going fast

Well its been 6 months since our last confession/blog ha ha. Jan. was great we had a great time on the boat for two weeks after Christmas. Well winter has come and gone and the best part of that is we only have one more winter to come and go before we move onboard Pieridae fulltime,

 Our next adventure after New Years was St Pattys day weekend on Pieridae in our home port of Southport,NC

 We have a local open air restaurant Provision Company http://provisioncompany.com/ . They open for the season on St Pattys weekend. We went out for a great day sail and had a blast before we anchored up in the Southport Yacht Basin where Provisions is located, then took the dinghy back and forth to Provisions opening night.

While in Provisions we over heard some folks talking about a town called Cullowhee... well not many people know of this town that is in WNC. So we introduced ourselves and asked them how they knew of  this small town in our neck of the woods lol. Turns out the went to Western Carolina Univeristy where Tina also went. We really enjoyed meeting these guys and turns out they will soon be getting married we wish them all the best.

The next morning we sailed out of the Basin and had a wonderful day sail off of Bald Head Isalnd,NC

We spent the month of April planning our 4 week vacation trip in May . Tomorrow we will post updates from those months

Christmas and New Years

  Ok as any UPS family will understand Christmas can be exhausting and this year  it lived up to our expectations. On the bright side we only have one more Christmas peak season with UPS( the brown Santa ),before we leave land and move onto Pieridae fulltime. We are looking forward to that and that keeps us moving forward after our dream.

We had a great Christmas Eve dinner in Leicester,NC a tradition going back many years. As a kid I (Doug) spent every Christmas eve at my Grandparents were we all gathered ,cousins ,anuts ,uncles the whole family. We were not allowed to open anything until mid-night, with that said remember we were kids and there was alot of cookies cakes ect.. sugar ha ha, I would say the grown ups were sooo ready for mid-night to get there even more so than us kids. Great memories. After my Grandparents passed away, we started meeting at my parents not the whole family just ours and have made lots of great memories there as well. I have to say my parents are great and we Love them more than they know. Thanks for another great Christmas!!!

Mizzen playing behind the tree while we were out sailing

 About 11 years ago we started a tradition of our own, we take a vacation one to two weeks right after the UPS Christmas madness. Our first year we went to a condo on Oak Island,NC since then we have been from  FL to Branson MO. In 2007 when we became apart of sailtime (fractional boating program) we spent the next few years on the boat. Until this past one now we have our own boat were we had a great 2 weeks vacation onboard Pieridae . We spent New Years eve with our friends Don and Erin and had a great low country boil we prepared on the boat. We had some great weather and had some great sails. It was a great week of relaxing and enjoying our time off from work. And we got a few projects done on the boat.