Wedding Photos and Travel Plans

Hello to all,

Susan arrived back in Santa Rosalia, and we spent the week installing and testing our new refrigeration unit. We are now making ice cubes and are pretty proud of ourselves for intalling the refrigeration ourselves.

Today we will leave the marina and head out to the island nearby. Friends on Distant Shores have been storing our frozen food for a couple of week, so we'll meet up with them and put it back in our brand new freezer. Yeah!

After that, we will move north towards Bahia de los Angeles and spend the rest of the hurricane season there. We will have limited access to Internet, so I wanted to post some wedding photos before we leave.

Kelsey and Trent were married on her parents' farm. This is a 'before' look at the space we'll transform for the ceremony and reception.

We erected a 20' x 40' tent, with lots of help, especially since the wind decided to pick up just at that moment.

A little adjustment on the guy ropes, and we'll see if the tent will stand up to the wind...

Now it's starting to look like a party!

All of the flowers for the wedding came from Jim & Pam's garden. It was a beautiful variety and added lots of color, but were so special because they had grown them all themselves.

Again, there were many people who pitched in to help.

Like the flowers, much of the fresh food for the reception dinner was grown on the Dyer's Wool farm. It was hard to resist eating all of the beans right off the vine! And the cherry tomatoes were incredibly sweet.

The wedding day arrived, and we're all ready for the ceremony to begin.

Cue the bride and groom...

Kelsey, the bride's sister, makes her way to the arbor for the ceremony.

Kelsey is a beautiful bride, clearly happy that this day has arrived.

The father of the bride says a few words to begin the ceremony. Kelsey and Trent recited their own vows. The ceremony concluded with a reading from Dr. Seuss - "Oh, The Places You'll Go".

The bride and groom enjoy their first dance as husband and wife.

Kelsey with Jim & Pam. Proud parents.

The Dyer family. All in all, a great day!


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Well, I hope this gives you a taste for all the preparation and fun of Kelsey and Trent's wedding on the Dyer's Wool farm. It was truly a community effort, and the results were wonderful. I was very happy to be a part of it.

Best wishes to all.

Love,
Sue & Jim

Heading Back to Baja

Well, the wedding was wonderful, and we have the components for our refrigeration, so today I'll be taking the bus back to Santa Rosalia on the Baja. I will have some photos of Kelsey and Trent's wedding when I get back to the boat, and will post them this week.

Wish us luck on the install of the new refrigerations. It's supposed to be simple, but we'll see.

Hope you are all well and happy and enjoying the late summer weather.

More later.
Love,
Sue

Windward Bound - Underway

Santa Rosalia

Well, we are still in Santa Rosalia, about halfway up the inside of the Baja peninsula. Our refrigeration gave up the ghost (after about 25 years), so we'll order a new unit and pick it up in the US next week. Susan had planned to attend her niece's wedding in Colorado anyway, so the timing works out well.

Hopefully we'll be on our way north in two weeks. We try not to let things slow us down, but we couldn't go without refrigeration in the Sea of Cortez, especially in the summer.

The heat is bearable, but we just can't be out in the sun too much. We just sweat so much, and it doesn't take much activity to be drenched! There is a pool here, and that helps a lot, since we can't swim in the harbor. We also have dock power, so ALL of the fans are running most of the day. At anchor, we would be typically 5-10 degrees cooler, so we're looking forward to that.

We have a few projects, but only the ones that are critical or help us deal with the heat are getting done. It's just too hot. The rest of August and most of September will be the hottest times, so we have less than 8 weeks left of heat!

We hope that this post finds you well and happy and enjoying the summer, wherever you happen to be. Even with the heat, we are.

All the Best,
Susan & Jim