{"id":1188,"date":"2012-10-08T12:35:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T12:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2012-10-08T12:35:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T12:35:19","slug":"family-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"Family Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have just spent the weekend with our two sons Rob and Chris and Rob’s girlfriend Kandice! \u00a0Kandice was a sweetheart to host all of us along with Rob’s dog Bosun at her house in the suburbs of Baltimore! \u00a0We all crammed into one car, with our laundry and weekend gear! \u00a0We laughed a lot, played with our granddog and Kandice’s three cats, drank margaritas and ate wonderful food!<\/p>\n

I don’t know what we were thinking to drive back to Annapolis (in boat show traffic!) on Saturday to walk around the town and have a late lunch aboard Pandora<\/em>. \u00a0Just getting five people in the dinghy at such a crowded floating dock was a bit over the top! \u00a0We spent the afternoon walking through the Naval Academy. \u00a0There was a wedding in the ‘chapel’ and it was lovely to see all the men in uniform and the bridesmaids in rich fall colors of deep purple dresses (aubergine) carrying bouquets of deep orange and red gerbera daisies. \u00a0Those young women had to be freezing in their strapless dresses during the outdoor photo session!<\/p>\n

We ate a lot of decadent food together, but Kandice’s Sunday morning ‘Monkey Bread’ took the prize!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0This is our last day in Annapolis….not a bit too soon for me! \u00a0That’s an odd thing to say about a place I love….so many beautiful places all within easy walking distance! \u00a0But to spend a week in a city while living on a boat is definitely weird.<\/em> \u00a0Living on board is much more suited to being off the beaten path, in some remote location that is utterly unspoiled. \u00a0To be right in the middle of a busy harbor, especially during the biggest sailboat show in the US, is really quite jarring! \u00a0I’m living off the grid while sitting just off \u00a0a bustling city that rarely sleeps! \u00a0The Naval Academy run their stadium lights all night long! \u00a0(Well, that’s not entirely true…I think they are off from about 2 – 5 am each day. \u00a0Still<\/em>….)<\/p>\n

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This is the kitchen window in an Arts and Crafts brick house circa early 1900s right near the academy. \u00a0I was smitten! \u00a0Wish I could have seen the whole kitchen! \u00a0I do want that light fixture!<\/p>\n

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Another view of the chapel at the Naval Academy.<\/p>\n

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Here is Bob taking a photo of Pandora from the Academy.<\/p>\n

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Chris took a couple of photos of the family during our weekend together, but I do not have them yet!<\/p>\n

We will work our time slot in the SSCA booth this afternoon, after finishing up on our last needed purchases from the show, and tomorrow we will be on our way to more secluded locations.<\/p>\n

The weather has changed and it’s now definitely autumn on the Chesapeake! \u00a0It was raining and in the mid-50s (F) when we returned to Pandora<\/em> yesterday afternoon. \u00a0It went down into the 40s last night. \u00a0We are running our Esbar heater now… it’s definitely time to head for warmer climes if we are going to live this way! \u00a0Here is this morning’s sunrise.<\/p>\n

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Days 25 – 28, October 5 – 8: Annapolis and Baltimore suburbs (by land!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have just spent the weekend with our two sons Rob and Chris and Rob’s girlfriend Kandice! \u00a0Kandice was a sweetheart to host all of us along with Rob’s dog Bosun at her house in the suburbs of Baltimore! \u00a0We all crammed into one car, with our laundry and weekend gear! \u00a0We laughed a lot, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}