Annapolis.....

Tue July 1st 9:19 am Yesterday we dinked in with the bikes and rode to the supermarket....damn...up hill almost the entire way...legs felt like rubber when we got there. Loaded up with fresh veggies and headed back to the boat in time to beat a rain squall. Best part was the down hill run back to the dink. After the rain we went in about 4:30 so Joyce could "SHOP". And who does Joyce spot ...Capt Bill from the Inner Harbor East Marina. He was parking his Harley. Invited us to go to happy hour....we caught up on the latest and said we would be up there next week. We then walked the town...most of the stores had closed so Joyce has reserved some more time today. We found the ice cream store and waited till a rain shower had done its thing before going back to the boat. We started watching some of our downloaded Grabby stuff when Joyce saw the 1st lightning flash. We went onto Google's new interactive radar weather page to see a very strong storm approaching from the west. We rushed up...let out another 30 ft of chain and snubber, took down the sun shade just before the storm hit. Not as bad as the storm in Crisfield but still hit 34 knots. From the safety of the cockpit we watched the other boats anchored near by up on the deck in the pouring down rain trying to get more chain down....isn't technology great....we were ahead of the storm....This new Goggle thing will make its way into our boats in the next generation of chart plotters where real time weather is superimposed on a GPS plotted boat position on Goggle Earth. You will be able to zoom in or out to see the "Whole Picture" Too cool...it'd just more $$$$. Will let Joyce do the pics...