Long Labor Day Weekend

I hope everyone had a happy and safe holiday weekend. Jeff had the day off on Monday...which made it a good long weekend for us.

Friday night, we ordered pizza because that seems to be becoming the tradition around here. We've actually managed, through patient deliberation, to get Pizza Hut to deliver ALMOST to the boat. What made this night interesting is the massive thunderstorm...we're talking monsoon...that hit just as the pizza was due to arrive. And since the driver only gets ALMOST to the boat, someone had to wade out in the parking lot for the cash for pizza exchange. I elected the bald guy...water rolls off of him better.

Saturday night was music at the tiki hut. People brought food and ate and they also brought their guitars [and drums and shakers] and played and sang. The weather was fabulous with a nice breeze and cool temperatures and a big, orange full moon rose up beautifully over the harbor. It was a lot of fun, and we stayed up entirely too late. Since there are no places to grab a late night bite to eat, we made breakfast at 3am. The bacon, corned beef hash, eggs, and toast were just what we needed to cap off our night.

Sunday was definately a day for sleeping in...although the dog kept us from staying in bed for very long. While we were gone to the tiki hut, the dog discovered and ATE a whole box of chicken bouillon cubes...foil and all. I figure he consumed 10,800 mg of sodium. He was very thirsty. He drank bowl after bowl of water and had to go out every couple of hours. I'd like to think he's learned his lesson, but I'm pretty sure if given the opportunity he'd do it all over again.

All in all, it was a lazy day of watching movies...some of them pretty good: The Hours w/ Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman; Murphy's Romance w/James Garner & Sally Field; Juno w/ Ellen Page & a great soundtrack; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes w/ Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russell; and the action thriller Taken w/ Liam Neeson.

Monday was like having a second Sunday...a little less lazy and the dog didn't have to pee as much. We finished up a few small projects, marinated some country-style ribs, spent a little time socializing at the tiki hut, and then took a dinghy ride out past the bridge & back.
After all that, Jeff did a little grilling on the new Weber that arrived just in time for the weekend. We had burgers cooked on it Sunday and BBQ ribs on Monday...both were delicious. Jeff wanted one of these weberQ's a long time ago, but didn't think it was practical to have on the boat. Instead, we went the West Marine route and got the grill meant for boats. It was a disappointment from the very beginning, difficult to position properly so that baked potatoes didn't roll off into the water, and impossible to keep a good flame. We have since passed it on to an unsuspecting friend and we hope he has better luck with it than we had.

Long live the Weber!