Getting into the Christmas spirit
DecaDance's Web Diary
Chris White and Jeanna Coleman
Wed 22 Dec 2010 12:10
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Position: 37:06.6N 008:40.5W
- Lagos Marina (still)
I'm not going to tell you our current proposed departure date
as that way I can't tempt fate.
The weather that we didn't want to encounter mid-ocean has
been battering the marina over the last couple of days and, in particular,
yesterday afternoon. I'd just returned from Christmas shopping in town
when the heavens opened and I ducked into the Oasis bar for shelter. I
watched the rain get worse over a coffee and then spied the familiar
figure of Rob rushing past into Dos Cais next door. I braved the
thunder and lightening to join him and, just as our waitress presented two
glasses of red and a huge free plate of voodoo chicken wings, the wind
intensified from, Rob reckons, about thirty-five knots to about 50. The
gust was relatively brief but you could hear the clanking of the boats as
they rattled on their moorings and, we discovered later, it threw
Chris to the ground aboard DecaDance. I haven't seen anything like it
since The Wizard of Oz. Several minutes later, the rain stopped,
it was deadly calm and the marina water was like glass - totally
surreal.
Rob is softly spoken, very intelligent and highly
entertaining (and I'm not just saying that because he and Rozzie read this
blog). He's semi-retired and living his dream just like us, except
his dream is living with Rozzie in Ireland. We've spent many an hour
putting the world to rights on every subject under the sun,
and one evening Rob expained the DISC analysis of different
personality traits from his work as a management consultant and told us what
types we are. Chris found it fascinating, although he seemed to flit
between feeling unique as the only type 'D' on board and feeling outnumbered by
us two type 'C's. That was also the night we played After Dinner Trivia -
like Trivial Pursuit but without the cheeses and with much more difficult and
obscure questions. Rob's hidden it somewhere 'cos it caused too many
arguments!
Chris has put his Christmas tree up, we've all bought each
other pressies and we're finally getting into the Christmas spirit
(although it sounds as though Rob has been buying Rozzie presents
since the middle of the Summer - and thanks to us she won't get them for
Christmas after all, sorry Rozzie). I stayed in the other night to wrap
pressies whilst Chris met up with Nige and Martha and Rob went to a Christmas
concert. We gate-crashed Seafari's staff Christmas party last night,
or, more accurately, were dragged in by Anna as we walked past as she thought
we'd already gone and was so pleased to see us. The manager didn't mind,
Peter and Ayli were there, and we were served free food
and "Happy Jugs" - jugs of wine at Happy Hour prices - so much for a quiet
night out!
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