A Maryland Day
My kids had a day off of school today for a teacher workday. What? A day off? How could that be since my kids just started school this week??!!, you ask?
Relax, its OK. This is not some kind of social worker emergency. My kids went back to school way back on July 30th as they are in one of these “all year” schools. So today was just a normal teacher workday break.
Anyway, my parents took the kids and I sailing on a boat co-owned/operated by my Dad and his two life long friends George Hess and Bill Kaufman. We sailed from the Magothy River just north of Anapolis, MD. We motored south and under the Bay Bridge and around some big freighters before actually putting out the jib and running a little. But there was not much of a breeze so we ended up motoring most of the way back too.
But we had a blast playing Scrabble and word games. The kids got to steer a bunch and a good time was had by all.
When we got back, we decided to find some crabs to round out a purely Maryland kind of day. $44 a dozen for some pretty good mediums. And they even came from the bay :-)
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An impromptu day that turned out to be very special indeed. Pop Pop is still talking about how fine a helmsman Jacob is. I have fond memories except for the fact that my son creamed me in Scrabble - again!
Shall I comfort myself with the fact that Ga-Ga and I taught him all he knows about the game. I don’t think so!