One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Well, we thought we were making forward progress by taking the chance of crossing Mobile Bay in the fog, but here we sit at Homeport Marina in Gulf Shores Alabama for three days waiting on a computer chip for our chart plotter! Seems UPS has tried to deliver it a few times, but no one's been around the marina office to accept the delivery which needs to be signed for and the drivers do not have phones on the truck so it's not like they can call us so that we could just walk the 50 yards up to the marina office to accept our package...a bit of a dilemma! When we asked the gal at the UPS office this morning to give us a general time frame for delivery she said anytime between 9 AM and 7 PM. We are in a clearly marked slip...the driver would simply have to walk down to the docks rather than to the main office (exactly halfway in either direction from the parking lot) but asking them to "re-route" to another address (aka the slip we're in) is not policy. So...here we are, making the very best of it...Sitting still that is...enjoying each other's company...relishing the solitude...reading...facebooking...skyping...journaling...finishing my real estate continuing education...cooking...listening to music...watching movies...We walked the 3 mile round trip to the grocery store yesterday to pick up a few things...felt good to 'move around' a little...Hoping to someday be back in Florida, just not today.