Hello Everyone!

As some of you might know, My vacation started today! And I thought it would be a good idea to keep a blog on what I have done, and share these moments and pictures with you.

Today we woke up, and we hadn’t done anything to prepare for our week of sailing. We hadn’t packed yet, and that didn’t seem to be an issue. Yet.. So we did our things and around 1 PM we packed our bags, and my dad loaded up the car while I did some preparations on this very laptop to be able to blog during my sailing trip. (I must say. I love my Android Phone!)

So after some hectic last minutes of packing, checking and stuffing the car we finally left at 17:22. I nabbed the car keys and we headed to the marina. It took us 42 minutes precisely and arrived at 18:05  (like Google Maps predicted). And since we had quite a bit of luggage we managed to score ourselves a little cart to ferry our stuff from the car to the boat.

After that we decided we wanted to have something nice to eat. We drove to the nearby town and sat down at a nice restaurant. I decided I wanted Spare Ribs, and my dad went for some sort of salad. It was some very nice food, although it was a bit too much. My dad thought he’d easily ‘devour’ his salad. But he didn’t even finish it. And when I saw the waitress serving my plate with 3 ribs on it, I was sure I wouldn’t be able to eat it all. As a dessert I had a bowl of cassis and lemon icecream with whipped cream and strawberries. My dad just had a cappachino.

After dinner, which was around 20:50, we figured out we left some essential stuff at home, so we took another drive home. This time my dad beat me to the car keys so I was forced to look around. Luckily I had the camera handy, as we saw a lot of hot-air balloons floating in the distance and I think I got a few nice shots in.

Around 21:20 we arrived back home and gathered our stuff. Took a while considering my dad had no idea where he put some of his stuff. So while he was rummaging about I decided to call my Girlfriend and tell her about my day. It was funny because she noticed that we were ‘still home’ thanks to number detection. I explained we forgot some stuff, which is pretty typical of me. Always forgetting things when going on vacation.

After we packed our stuff we headed back to the boat at 21:50 and arrived back at the boat at 22:28. Time to settle in and get the boat ready for sleepy time.

I got the electricals and made sure that we had power on-board (hah, what would a geek do without his laptop!) while my dad sorted out the sleeping spots. After that was all done I grabbed the laptop, hooked up my phone and started writing this blog post. And that is pretty much where I will end now.

I had a great day already, and hope that we’ll get the same weather the whole week as we did today. It couldn’t have been better! But this is it for today. I hope you enjoyed reading, and stay tuned for another blog post on my wonderful vacation!

Pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/o.lenstra/SailingTripDay1

Regards,
Olrik