Getting into the Christmas spirit

DecaDance's Web Diary
Chris White and Jeanna Coleman
Wed 22 Dec 2010 12:10
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!