We slept in and enjoyed a late breakfast of bagels and eggs, after which, I worked on writing about the previous day's fun for the daily blog update. The rest of the afternoon was spent on projects (installing a couple of shelves into a narrow cabinet and resealing some trim on the exterior) and cleaning the grill for that night's dinner.
Just as I pulled the spare ribs off the grill, we received a couple of very special visitors, Ross Heyl and his lovely wife, Kristina (frankly, I just don't get what she sees in the guy, but I'm sure there's blackmail involved), who arrived from their place on Pearl Island by way of dinghy. After a nice visit, during which we recanted the whole muffler explosion and nearly running into the rocks story, Ross and Kristina boarded their small outboard motor boat to head back to Pearl Island. Before their departure, we made tentative plans to join them for breakfast at the marina cafe around 8:oo the following morning.
Later in the evening, we decided to walk up to the village for some ice cream. As we were heading towards some Rocky Road ice cream, we ran into Bill carrying our repaired muffler. He informed us that he was just taking it down to the boat to drop off and would be coming back in the morning to install it. We were thrilled to see the muffler back in one piece and to realize that soon we'd be back up and running again. After setting a time for Bill's return for installing the part, we purchased our ice cream from the local stand and found a nice spot to people watch while enjoying our frozen treat.
Once the ice cream was consumed, we took a walk around one of the marina docks to check out some boats. Returning back at the Reaper, Lysa took another load of laundry up while I cleaned the grill for the next boatside BBQ dinner. With the grill clean and stowed away, I proceeded with the nightly ritual of putting things away and closing the canvass at the rear of the boat. When Lysa returned with the laundry, we settled in to watch "The Astronaut Farmer", which we enjoyed very much.
With a very "quiet" day behind us, we hit the sack looking forward to our boat repair being completed and hopeful that we would hook up with Ross and Kristina at some point for breakfast. We're somewhat back on track with our plans for heading up to Salt Spring Island off Vancouver Island, then down to Victoria for a couple of days before returning to the San Juan Island on the last stop of our amazing journey.
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