Sailing on the high seas

Today, Karen and Dean took the kids out to see Chickeniza Pyramids and then to a Cirque du Soliel show for Halloween and I decided to let them do this as a family and stay back and work on some things around the boat as well as catch up on my blog and emails.  It was a nice day just to sit around the pool and relax for a change. Hanging out not far from the bar but in the shade.  As much as I like the sun, I do notice that I always find a shady spot to sit.  Still, I pretty much had the entire Wyndham resort to myself.   Yesterday we all went to a sort of an adventure park in the jungle about an hour away from Cancun where we started out repelling down into a underground cavern (Xenote) and then swimming into a landing area where we got to some cliff jumping into a refreshing pool.  From there we did zip lining (again into pools in Xenotes), more cliff diving, kayaking, swimming and just generally got tuckered out.  It was very fun to watch my 1st ...

This post has taken me a while to get to.  I was caught up in enjoyment with my cousin Karen, her husband Dean (whom I had never met) and three of their lovely (and very well behaved) kids and didn't want to take "Brent time" to write this.  In my last post, they had picked me up from the airport at Key West where I had dropped my rental car and I had done a short trip into town to get my iPhone screen replaced and was waiting to get up to speed on the new boat with Dean and the skipper they had hired to make the long offshore passage to Isla Mujeres. As the boat was brand new to Dean and Karen, in fact it was nearly brand new being Beneteau's US demonstrator for the model (Sense 55) and only 2 years old, and they were travelling with the young kids, they made the decision to hire a series of delivery skippers to help them move the boat from St. Petersburg to Key West, then from Key West to Isla Mujeres, and then from Isla Mujeres to it's new home in the Cayman ...