GO RAVENS!!!!

2.4.13 GO RAVENS!!! We cheered the Ravens to a victory with a few other Baltimorons last night at our favorite bar - Snappas. What a game! We were sad that we weren't celebrating in New Orleans or even in Baltimore with more fans, but were glad we were able to watch it. After recovering from our night out, we hauled up anchor and headed over to Hopetown. It is a short 7 mile sail and we were there in a couple hours. After securing the boat, we headed in to check out the town. The Hopetown lighthouse is one of the few remaining functioning Fresnel Lens lighthouses in the world, so it is always fun to see. And the view of course is amazing! (Pictures will have to come later as our internet is still dodgy). After the lighthouse, we headed over to town to see if we could sign Sean up for a dive trip. We found Froggy's, the local diving tour and thankfully Sean was able to sign up for the following day. Hopefully this one won't be cancelled! Hopetown is one of the cutest towns in the Bahamas so we spent the remainder of the afternoon touring around and poking in and out of the little shops. We even treated ourselves to some ice cream! The following morning, we got Sean into town for his dive trip - he was excited to finally being able to get out! Brad and I headed back to the boat to get some work done. We checked a few things off the long, never ending list of to dos, including hauling me up the mast to check on our anemometer - our wind direction and speed thingie. Unfortunately everything was in good working order, which means that we have a wiring issue - awesome. We headed back in to pick up Sean and then stocked up on groceries in town since the weather predicted a decent wind window for us to head to Eleuthra on Thursday. Once back on the boat, we decided to take advantage of the high tide and slowly make our way through the shallows farther south. Although it was dicey (at one point we have less than a foot under our keel!!!), we made it through safely and anchored on the other side in preparation to head farther south tomorrow.