Enjoy The View

I'm going to propose a new tradition. In addition to "wine" down Wednesdays, we're also gonna do Thirsty Thursdays, Speed Boat Saturdays and Sailing Sundays ... pretty much any day of the week with an excuse to get out on the water and have some wine with Captain's Barry, Tamara and Bailey.

We had fun on our little sunset cruise, sipping wine ... spilling wine ... snacking and laughing while we counted baby gators and watched the sun set over Lake Dora. It was a great way to release the stress of the day and a simple reminder of one of the many reasons we moved to Mount Dora.

Something I didn't know ... there is a "wedding tree" in the Dora Canal. Barry explained that there were two trees that grew together as one, connecting at the root and several times again as they grew together over the years. He's married several people on his boat in front of this tree, so we went on a mission to find it. We searched and looked all through the canal and I almost thought this was going to be another one of Barry's "stories" that prove how I'm so gullible ... but then we found it. An unique natural anomaly.

Barry and Tamara also told us a great story about one of their experiences at The Captain's Inn this week. They has several "musical" guests, including Captain Harry. Now ... Captain Barry and Harry in the same room? I almost spewed my wine in laughter. Can you really get two Captain's in the room with rhyming names? But it's no nursery rhyme, it is fact. Captain Harry is a real person and entertained all the guests with his acoustic guitar and quick wit. He even strummed a little song about Barry and Tamara that went a little something like this ...

Take a picture it'll last longer
I think I could make those colors even stronger
The things that you can capture with your camera
The life that could live with your Tamara
A boy's imagination becomes a young man's dream
You can be who you want to be
Let the sails, unfurl,
Travel around the world
Searching for a cultured pearl
Just go for it
Life too short
Travel to a distant port
Plot your course and then navigate
You don't have time to wait
Once you get the picture you are on your way
Carpe Diem
Seize the day
Gather up a table crew
Okay their not so stable, but they'll do
Mother nature will thrill us all
Like a Polynesian waterfall
Greater than your greatest wish
Like when an eagle takes your fish
Because I can color deep and true
And this is what I'll do for you
Many people call it folly
They don't have time to Dali
A boys imagination becomes a young man's dream
You can be who you want to be
Let the sails unfurl
Searching for a cultured pearl
Just go for it
Life too short
Travel to a distant port
Plot your course and then navigate
You don't have time to wait

What a great reminder to live in the moment and enjoy the day! Sometimes I get so caught up in "plotting the course" that I forget to look up and enjoy the view.

--Rachelle