Walked till My Butt Hurt

Thur 5:30 pm. Yesterday we played around till 11 am or so and dinked in to Marathon. We found Ken and Helen's boat as well as John and Joanne's. They had driven down to Key West for the Day. I had not walked off the boat for 2+ days, so we checked into the City Marina Dingy dock...$10.50 thank you very much and headed for the Home Depot. Must have been 3/4 of a mile. Found our stuff....on sale and then decided o continue another 1/2 mile or so to the supermarket. More food ....that's all we need...hiked back to the Marina...the Capt was whooped...barely made it to the dink. We had been gone for over 4 hrs...and was 5 o'clock somewhere. Muddler time....a muddler is a Capt Paul concoction left over from his working days. Been known to kill the pain of any known condition when consumed in moderation, more is better when you hurt. Was an early evening for the skipper. Awoke at 2:50 am...yep....PAIN...back and butt in spasm...downed a muscle relaxer and cranked up Jenny's laser....kept falling back asleep till the Laser made its shutdown noise. Joyce started to stir about 6:45am...offered to deep massage my back and feet...wow...almost bearable. She got up to make that special tea in copious amounts to keep my kidney stone happy By 8AM the Capt was almost human. We putted in about 11AM ...into 15-20 knts of wind....so much for the laser and Joyce's back massage....the dink on the Lady H is a %^&%$#*&^%. It's a hard bottom inflatable...(the Capt got it on sale.....get what you pay for....seems the hull is too flat and it pounds into even a moderate chop. You are guaranteed to get wet from the spray. The Capt has been on the hunt for a AB dink....can be purchased in Venezuela for around 2K...but has not been in the budget due to other things breaking...IE sails...radar...generator.....so his back will have to suffer a little while longer...)

....to say nothing of how I suffer when I get ALL WET and salty!!! But Paul strayed from why we were dinking in to begin with....to have lunch at the Dockside Restaurant. We ordered (for Paul a prime rib french dip...for me a Mahi Mahi reuben) and Paul walked down to Ken and Helen's boat. They walked down and joined us as did John and Joanne. We had a great time chatting with them and spend the rest of the afternoon talking boats, weather, travel plans, and kids.