Stray Cat Sailing: Super Bowl Sunday at Black Point

We attended Gethsemane Baptist Church Sunday morning. We were truly blessed. The entire service was ALIVE. These people truly know how to worship. They also know their scripture. They sing scripture, shout scripture and preach scripture. The church was small and simple buy US standards with open windows and doors but full of joy. These people were glad to be in the house of the Lord and welcomed all who came that morning. We were truly touched.

We went back to the boat and had a light lunch and just relaxed until time to head back to Lorraine’s for the Super Bowl party. I must say that TV has been rare for us this winter so even I was interested in watching. Lorraine sings in the choir at church and had to leave after the song service to go to work cooking for the lunch crowd and cook up the mega feast for the SB Party. She made sure to come by and welcome us to church on her way out that morning. She had to have gotten up before sunrise to start her day and serve two meals to hungry cruisers and locals. Super Bowl is a BIG deal here. Of course it is a major source of income for the community that hosts such a huge influx of cruisers during the winter. There were 3 restaurants hosting happy hours and dinner specials. Lorraine’s small establishment had 2 flat screen TV’s set up inside and one outside for the overflow tables . It was too bad that the game was such a blow out since many cruisers went back to their boats at half time. Freddie and I headed back to Stray Cat sometime in the 3^rd quarter. The majority of the people at Loraine’s seemed to be Seattle fans so it was a pretty happy group.

We went in to do laundry in Rockside Laundry Monday morning. $14 to wash and dry 2 loads. This is the first time I have done laundry in a machine this year. Most of the time I do it by hand on the boat. The laundry was packed. It took from 10 am until 1 pm to get it done. There was a line for both the washers and dryers. Later in the day we walked to the beach to see the Exuma Sound side of the island. We will come in and update everything on the internet Tuesday morning then probably head a little North. If you ever come this way Loraine’s has the best internet in town. You can sit outside and get a good signal and reasonable speeds. For a small donation you can plug in to the electric also. We have taken advantage of the free internet there each day . We are still trying to decide our route for the passage North. The weather is foretasted to hold this week and a cold front to come down around the 10^th. We are really looking at where we need to be to weather the front. Yep it’s not just old people that talk about the weather. It is a major topic in Cruiser circles.