Thursday, January 1, 2015

Happy New Year


Dear All,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!



We had an interesting new year last night. We went “down town” here in Oriental to watch the Dragon go by. The whole downtown was packed with people, I mean absolutely packed there must have been all 700 inhabitants of the town down by the water front last night. All of them waiting for the dragon to appear. Most of them had brought noise makers of some kind right down to old pots and pans that they were banging on to welcome in the new-year. Then the dragon appeared. It snaked through the crowd and everybody surged forward to touch it. (it’s good luck to touch a dragon don’t you know?)
Well, it was a great way to ring in the new year. We didn’t stay for the “croaker” drop (that’s when they lower a lighted “croaker fish” from the mast head of a sail boat instead of a lighted ball) but I did get a picture of the “croaker” waiting to fall!
 
It was lots of fun but terribly cold!

 

Hope that your New Year went well.


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  1. MarjiMarch 18, 2015 at 6:49 AM

    Hi Rich and Anna,
    I just found your blog via a link on Ravelry, a knitting site. I belong to a group on there for sailing knitters.
    Anyway, my husband and I sailed from Eldean's in Holland Michigan in April of 2010. This winter we didn't go to Bahamas but instead have spent most of the winter in Marathon FL on our IP45, Far Niente.
    Maybe we'll cross paths sometime. Nice to see other Michiganders out sailing!

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