Mother's Day on a boat. The best thing my parents have bought so far. I grew up watching them drive rust bucket cars that needed a hammer to start, eating london broils for steak, and buying clothes from the fleemarket or bag elephant sales. This boat is helping them find the happiness they had before the stress of money and moving up in this world overwhelmed them. They're heading in the right direction and really taking me with them in a way.

I'll post photos soon. It's a really beautiful wooden boat (30ft?) that would sleep 4-6 people comfortably, a great design and pretty good shape. Needs a bit of paint, some varnish and cleaned...that's about it, other than being an old boat.

My true adventure of the day (other than being with my mom for mother's day) was dropping my cell phone in the water and diving it after it about a second later. I caught the phone about 2.5 ft deep and threw it in the boat. Then I was in the water, soaking wet in a white linen skirt and fully clothed and couldn't climb back into the boat. So I took the rope from the boat and tied it to the small rowboat, put the rope in my teeth and swam to the swimming dock near shore. Then I gingerly stepped on the oysters and jumped, well, more like rolled, onto the dock. Then I got back into the rowboat sopping wet and then got back on the boat. I rang out my clothes and let them dry while reading a magazine and waiting for my parents to get there. Quite the adventure.