Finally, the Kids have arrived! Over the last few days the Kid boats have arrived here in Puerto Escondido. Today, the kids from 6 boats met up at the Singlar Marina. The pool welcomed them for most of the day, then once the sunburns kicked in, they headed down to the Yacht Club, where cards became the next pleasure. After that, the Kids just kind of cruised around the ground, being Kids. It was so nice to see this, as it’s been a while here in Puerto Escondido. 3 of these boats, including us will be spending the summer in the Sea of Cortez, sadly two are going to be finishing up their trips here in the Sea this month.
As always, it’s amazing to see how all of the Kids get along, boat Kids continue to amaze me, especially this bunch!
In other exciting news – today Johanna & I decided to fix the wood floor on the dinghy, a simple 1 hour fix. We fixed the floor & cleaned up the dinghy, proud of our work we launched the dinghy back into the water. Once “Old Blue” was back into the water, she started to take on water (sink)! So, now we had another problem, major problem. We took her out of the water again & discovered a tear in the rubber floor. Again, this is a simple process, but time consuming. To make a long story-short, we spent most of the day working on the dinghy, the leak is fixed for now.
For those that don’t know about our dinghy “Old Blue”, she is a 23 old inflatable. One that most people wrote off when we bought Ocean Blue II almost 2 years ago. She has since served us very well, she is our family car, actually more like a pickup. We have become very attached to her, so it’s now our duty to keep her going. With that said, we are on the lookout for a new(er) dinghy, but Old Blue will still be here until we retire her.
I will end our post with some stats., some frugal cruisers find this important, not so much for us on Ocean Blue II, but it has been almost 8 months since we have been on a dock, we guess our next time to dock will be in Santa Rosalia in 2 months from now.
p.s. – still looking for a sponsor on the following – dinghy & underwater camera 
From patrick, s/vAmy Michele:
in guaymas. headed to conception on the morrow. meet you at Anna’s when?
love too all!
From Monica:
I just came across your blog and am glad to hear there are kids north. We’re in La Paz now but will be making our way up to Escondido (and further north) over the next few weeks/months. We have a little boy, Jake, 4 years old. I’m not sure the ages of the kids up there, but we are really looking forward to seeing some other boat kids!
From Dee:
I wondered if you would be interested in doing a very simple interview, via email, for my site. I stumbled across your blog, and have to say, the hubby and I would love to do something like this!
From Sharon:
hola amigos. Just to let you know, we still check up on you guys. Website is great and we are so jealous. BC has been cold and wet. Hoping for summer soon. We are counting down the days till we hit mexico again (in November). Hopefully we can meet up if you are sailing around the coastal areas. Smooth sailing, Sharon and Curtis