Happy New Year!

DecaDance's Web Diary
Chris White and Jeanna Coleman
Sun 2 Jan 2011 18:20
Position: 28:51.43N 013:49.01W - Marina Rubicon, Lanzarote
 
 
Happy New Year to all our blog followers.  We've posted some photos of our Christmas at sea on FaceBook - just make friends with Deca Dance to have a look (it's easier than posting on the blog).
 
 
Our New Year's Eve was a pretty quiet affair, just the two of us for a meal, but there were plenty of fireworks throughout the course of the night to liven things up a bit.  We haven't yet found the liveaboard / local community here - if there is one, and that's one thing we really miss about Lagos.  We're also missing friends and family and modern jive venues.
 
 
We've settled into life in the sun nicely now and the tan is gradually covering the bruises from the bumpy journey down here.  Chris's chest and back still have a long way to go to catch up with his brown face, neck and arms, but there's less of a glare now.  It's lovely to sit in the cockpit to eat our meals, although the german with the huge man-boobs on the next boat along does tend to put one off one's cornflakes.
 
 
As I'm sure is the case for many people, the New Year sees us with a financial hangover and we're seriously tightening our belts until we get some charter business or sell a kidney - reasonable offers for either will be carefully considered.  It's no hardship eating on board, in fact it's very pleasant (if you sit with your back to saggy german), and we're looking forward to finally christening the barbeque.  I'm saving a few more Euros today by shunning the launderette and using our washing machine, which, not to put too fine a point on it, is crap.  I already have arms like Popeye from flushing the on-board heads (toilets), palms like a brickie from handling all the ropes, and now I'll have wrists like an arm-wrestler from wringing out the washing.  The upside is that we no longer need socks and thermal tops and fleeces so once dry they'll be packed away for a long time.
 
 
Whilst I've been playing washer-woman, Chris has been fixing things, cleaning the heads and polishing anything shiny on board - he's like a magpie.  The outside of the boat is gleaming but we've got quite a bit to do to organise everything inside still - ah well, we've got all the time in the world to do it...