Home for 3 weeks

Max wanted to get home to be at a friend's HS graduation so he flew home a day earlier than us. We followed the day after allowing for some time to prep the boat to be left and ensure the service team had a clear understanding of our list of items to get addressed. The Xquisite team was kind enough to drop us off airport and we made it home without any issues. We had enjoyed our brief stay but had to get back to real life. Amy still had skating stuff going on, my Scout Troop was getting ready for summer camp, and the HS Trap team that I coach had regionals coming up. Not to mention Max still had 3 weeks left in his Junior year of HS and we had a family wedding to attend before we could head back to the Bahamas to start using our new toy.

As usual we made the most of those three weeks. One weekend we took the Tug over to Put-in-Bay as they were doing tours of the Benson Ford house. Neat story this was a cargo ship that Henry Ford used to use from time to time and had fitted out rather nicely. Eventually it got sold and someone bought it cut it up keeping the bridge decks and sleep quarters then dropped it on their lot at Put-in-Bay turning it into a second home. When you go by the island it's hard to miss from the water and we never knew much about it. Turns out they open it up a few times a year for tours so we made the trek over to check it out. It's about what one would expect an old well appointed ship to look like. They have kept it remarkably the same as I'm sure it was back in the day. Frankly I'm not really sure about the practicality of living on it and having to haul all ones groceries up 2-3 flights of stairs or even just working on it to keep things running but its neat to see that someone enjoys it and still actively uses it. Another cool thing while we were there one of the locals that was volunteering as a tour guide of the home had just got back from space. Turns out he signed up for the Blue Origin

space flight program and had just completed his flight the week prior. It was pretty neat to hear about his experience.

The next week I took our Trap team to sectionals. The kids shot really well earning the team 3rd place in the region and a couple of the kids even placed in the top 3 in other areas like skeet and sporting clays. We had a couple more Scout meetings. Max completed his Junior year and was now home calling himself a Senior (I'm just not ready for that), and then it was time for the family wedding. The wedding was a lot of fun. It was the smallest I've been to in a long time but after attending I'm not sure I would recommend it any other way. The couple did not have to spend all night saying hi to their guests, most the guests knew each other, and it seems like the couple got to actually enjoy their party! 

The next day we planned to fly back to Freeport to bring the boat back to the US. We really were doing it without much of a plan of where we might end up and unfortunately we were once again on a schedule to get it somewhere before we needed to be back for the next event which happened to be a wedding shower (another family wedding), States for our Trap team, and then a week of summer camp. What were we thinking buying a boat this year? Oh well I'm still looking forward to the adventure!

Look we can clean up reasonably well :)