Sunrise on Saturday, July 19

As was typical, there were a lot of ducks around the marina.

Yesterday was a quiet day. In the morning, Eric tried to fix our vacuum. We hadn’t mentioned it, but it had broken a few days ago. Eric determined that the roller had so much hair stuck in it that it melted! The vacuum had a couple different sized heads that could be attached, so he simply swapped out the head.

Our big outing was going back to Lola’s for brunch. Eric and Keith both ordered mocktails. Eric got a mock michelada and Keith got a mock guava margarita.

That night, another violent thunderstorm blew through. It was so loud that we had a hard time getting to sleep.

This afternoon, we went to Stony’s for brunch. Eric ordered a breakfast pizza.

In the early afternoon, Bigger Boat came to Kosmos to play D & D

Afterwards, we all went to the Latino Music Festival at Norfolk Town Point Park, which was directly next to Nauticus. We went to the same parking garage across the street from Nauticus, and were unhappy to find that the parking was a $10 flat fee. When we pointed to the sign that said first 2 hours free, the attendant said that the prices changed for special events.

The festival set up was very similar to what Ft. Monroe had on the 4th of July: a stage at one one of the park with vendors selling an assortment of goods ringing the edges. When we arrived, a band was playing and the music was great, but loud.

The park had great views of the military shipyard

And Portsmouth across the Elizabeth River.

In addition to Bigger Boat, we met up with three other family boats. We had a nice time getting to know them all. Interestingly, between all 5 families, there were 10 boys and not a single girl. Keith was the oldest of the group.

We didn’t stay long because another big thunderstorm storm was forecast to come through. We didn’t particularly want to get wet, and given the flooding problems in Downtown Norfolk, we decided it was probably best to get out of the flood zone before the rain started.

Last time we’d come here, we’d seen a place called Insomnia Cookies near the parking garage, which sold cookies, brownies and ice cream. Their big selling point was mixing and matching flavors of cookies/brownies and ice cream. We decided to get a quick dessert before heading out. Eric liked his, but Christi and Keith didn’t like theirs much.