Well, we have met a couple of our boat neighbors in the past couple of days. They are all very nice, but seem to be sane enough not to be 'living' on theirs! They all seem to be very excited though at the fact that we are calling ours home. One of them notified us that there is a few "community alligators" in our marina waters that is about 5 and 8 ft long. GREAT! My cats would probably be a great meal! Note to self....dont let them out of my sight if possible!
We had our first 'family shower' this morning in the shower house up the hill about 100yards away. It was very interesting as we passed our slippery one year old back and forth. Diron, first of all had to sweep the ants...and a cockroach the size of TX out of the place. It however, is pretty well kept (although I make it sound otherwise) for a camping type shower area. It is heated (which is whey the bugs probably like it as well!). We will need some practice figuring out a routine for all of this to make it easier...I hope! Keep your fingers crossed!
I've had to take deep breaths and be friends with spiders. As I pee at the toilet in the shower facility, the shower curtains hiding each stall, have little baby spiders on them. They are kind of cute so I try to just think of Charlotte's web and get out of there as quickly as I can. We can use the toilet in the boat bathroom now that everything is up and running. It has this little crank that you have to crank 6 or 7 times after using the bathroom to wash all the stuff out. Kind of interesting, but you have to pump it pretty hard so hopefully I can stay in shape enough for that...ha! I also find myself making sure to use just the right amount of T-paper instead of freely spinning the roll as (badly) accustomed. Definitely becoming a minimalist already!
Lastly for now, we have rotated who is sleeping where three times now. Diron swore we could take the v berth bed (it comes to a v-a very narrow one- where the front of the boat is) as ours. We had multiple laughs as he tried to contort himself to fit 'comfortably' but resorted to moving to the other bed with Satchel after about 30 minutes. Now, we have Satchel in the v-berth and us in the bigger bed. The only problem is the v-berth bed is about 3 feet high and a long fall to a hard floor for a one year old. We have bought a rail and several huge pillows to put in the floor to begin trying tomorrow. As of now, we are ALL sleeping in the bigger bed (only 1 foot drop to the floor...which Satchel fell out of twice last night onto soft big pillows). It's amazing how much a one year old can beat two parents up in his sleep!!! Hopefully all of the sleeping arrangements will smooth themselves out!
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