Christmas in the Islands

Merry Christmas from the Perlas Islands in Panama!  We had a nice time.  There were about 10 boats in the anchorage here at the island.  We had about 30 people over for Christmas Eve dinner.  It was nice.  Then Cassidy and I stayed up and wrapped presents.  Christmas morning we opened presents and played, then went to the beach later in the day and had a big volleyball game.  We invited another catamaran over for Christmas dinner.  They are from Brazil.  Cassidy also got to go wakeboarding yesterday with that other catamaran.

We are setting up for another trip to the Darien and indigenous tribes Dec. 30th.  There may be about 5 other boats going at this point.  Things change rapidly here.  Should be interesting though.

I need to get to shore, brought baby out for his nap, but am going to make a treasure hunt for the kids to do (and want to get them doing some more reading anyway.)  Also making lunch to bring to them.  They are playing with a 4-year-old girl on shore from Sunrise.  Very nice family, we've been wearing her out.  She’s not used to this much stimulus!

Courage and Loyal, with some help from Bill on Sunrise, built up the cockpit floor so that it is more usable and we have more storage.  It's good, still raw wood, but functional. We also have a tarp guy sewing our old canvas to fit our new roof.  Really excited for some better shade and rain protection out there.  That will make it so much more functional and enjoyable.

Must make the treasure hunt and feed the kids. 

Until later,
Shannon