Quiet Week in Norfolk for Christi While Eric and Keith Were In San Diego

Thursday, July 31 – The last 11 days have been quiet in Norfolk.

We spent Monday the 21st doing chores and work at the boat. One of those chores was cleaning the sea strainers for the two air conditioning units that we run most frequently (pilot house and downstairs). The first strainer we pulled out had a small fish and a couple of weird little gelatinous balls. The balls didn’t just fall out when inverted, but they did come out with a little bit of shaking. Then we pulled out the second one. It was completely full of those gelatinous balls. Very few fell out when inverted and shaken; we had to use a scraper tool to get them out. And it did take a surprising amount of scraping to get them all out. We’ve never seen anything like this before.

Keith finished his science fair project, so he was now officially done with school work (though Christi still had grading to do).

On Tuesday, July 22, Eric and Keith flew to San Diego in the early afternoon. Christi spent the morning getting them ready to go. In the afternoon, she puttered around the boat. It was a particularly colorful sunset.

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Another FFX Murder Mystery, Virginia Beach Ocanfront Art and Dinner at Cantina Laredo

Sunday, July 20 — Keith had enjoyed the FFX murder mystery show so much that he asked if we could go back again this week (the murder mystery show was every Sunday at 1400 and it was a different mystery every week). In the morning, Eric and Keith went over to Miss Roxy’s to play D & D, while Christi went over to Karen’s. When we planned this, Eric and Keith had figured that there would be lots of time between D & D ending and the show starting. We’d planned that Christi would pick them up after D & D and we’d have a leisurely lunch before the show. The D & D session was intense that the session ran long. Miss Roxy ordered lunch in so they could eat while they played, and we were ten minutes late to the FFX show. But fortunately, they didn’t start without us.

Last time, the show’s theme was Wild West. This time, it was Superheroes. Like last time, they passed out character sheets and clues about what we should ask the other characters about. There were more people in attendance this week than last week, and they ran out of characters. Karen and Mark didn’t get characters, which was disappointing for them. They were invited to partake in solving the mystery, but without clues, they had no idea what kinds of questions to ask the other participants, so they gave up on participating early on.

Mark, Lauren, Karen
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Keith’s Perspective on Our Week in Virginia Beach and Williamsburg/Le point de vue de Keith sur notre semaine à Virginia Beach et Williamsburg

On Saturday, we went Go-Kart racing, which was very fun. Then I got new shoes. For dinner we went to a Japanese restaurant with Mom’s friends. We ate at a hibachi grill, and the chef was hilarious. 

Samedi, nous sommese alles faire une course de Kart, qui était amusant. Après ça j’ai acheté des nouvelle chaussures. Pour le dîner, nous avons mangé à un restaurant Japonais avec l’ami de maman. Nous avons mangé à un barbecue hibachi, et le chef était trop amusant. 

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