春節 - Happy Chinese New Year!

So David and I are just sitting here, thinking "We haven't composed a blog in a while, so we are making a combined one." And so it goes: Russ just left for the airport, to continue to create experiences for his autobiography. We have two new crew on board, Nancy and Don who are a couple who just arrived from Guatemala. They are interesting and colorful people, with many stories. Oh! We had our first injury, I closed David's finger in the car door. He forgives me, I think. But all is well, he found TJ's private stash of "Winnie the Pooh" band-aids. We have been doing research, and our boat really does look like the one from "The Life Aquatic." Russ took a picture of David wearing all the firefighting gear, including the air mask, while holding a french maid feather duster. David and I also had our first encounter with the locals on Friday, hustling a couple pool sharks. We are celebrating Chinese New Year on the boat, and have considered lighting our many expired flares. We finally have a stereo and are thinking about hosting a shipyard dance. All of the shipyard folk love their country music. We had some Tibetan SInging Bowl music playing and TJ got quiet, a weird and almost scary expression overcame him, and he walked away, backwards. We have moved the boat 90 degrees counter-clockwise from where it was, the view is much better here, and some of us almost got seasick. We are all looking forward to the sunny tropics, I think we all need tans! David just agreed, "We DO!!!!!!" We will put more pictures up later this week, for now...春節 and ALOHA from Norfolk!