Trip Report - Saying Goodbye and Giving Thanks

[wpyogi]

Something has been looming over my head...oh yeah, this freaking TR!! I am officially finishing what I started. Now. I gotta warn you though, it's going to be uneventful...

I toss and turn all night. Call it too many carbs. Call it churning belly because I haven't had enough rum today. Call it i am dreading the trip to MoBay. Call it nervous traveler. Call it Sandy's aftermath. The wind was wicked all night. The seas grew massive, and we could hear it all happening. When the wind would whip up, it would knock coconuts out of the trees....BANG!!...on the roof of Gemini II. (ok, maybe they weren't coconuts, but GD whatever it was it was LOUD!) I can't even count how many times I literally JUMPed out of bed. Toss and turn for what felt like hours before I fell back asleep, then BANG!! OH, and you know when you go into that dream state that seems so vivid, you don't know if you are actually asleep? Well I began to think someone slipped me a hit of acid...I was seriously hallucinating!

We roll out of bed around 7am, groggy and grumpy! Sweet Carol comes to the back door and lets us know that they will be providing room service for breakfast because Ivans is closed due to the seas really picking up. (ok, i wasn't hallucinating that part, whew!) We ask her for a couple of cups of coffee and step outside to take some pictures. Yes, the waves are crashing over Ivans roof!