April 13, 2024 - Stuart, Florida

Saturday

We were up fairly early and cleaned the boat.  Ashley and Brittany are driving from Fort Lauderdale to Stuart to visit us while they are on their mini vacation.   We are really excited.  We met them up in the parking lot and walked into town to go to the Stuart Sidewalk Sales.  We had coffee and breakfast in town and shopped for quite a while.  They bought items for themselves and for their young daughters too!

From there we took a walk to the Sunset Bay Marina where we are moored, hopped into the dinghy, and went to show them where the boat is.  We also took them on a short ride into one of the narrow channels in the mangroves for the fun of it.  

We had a quick snack on the boat and then decided to climb into their rental car and go to Stuart Beach.  The day was windy but not the 40 mph gusts we had the other day.  We had fun looking for shells and watching Kip get soaked by an incoming wave.  

Kip finally decided to just jump in since he was already wet.  We asked him if he had any extra clothes and he said no, but "the rental car has vinyl seats."  

After the beach we went back to Stuart and had dinner at Duffy's (outside).  Then, of course, everyone had to have ice cream at Kilwins.  We laughed so much today that we cried!  Kip was describing how he had sand in his pockets, lots of sand, handfuls of sand.  

We walked them back to their rental car and said our goodbyes.  We had a great time with them today, and they said they wished they could stay longer.  Kip removed the sand from his body and clothes and relaxed until bed.  The sunset was really pretty tonight.