Oops....I lost a day.....day 20.....SUNDAY 16th!

Somehow yesterday I had it in my mind it was Fri. Until I talked to daughter Darci and she cleared my head! We had a low key river day. This isn't as pretty a cruise as we have had in the past but then we have seen lots of very beautful and different sceneries. We had 3 locks but things went very smooth and the weathernyas been clear skies and around 80. We don't see much as far as TV with news and weather but we try and stay aware of any storms that might be coming. We ended the day at Bobbies Fish Camp! It has a dock with a fuel pump, though you need to walk up the hill to the office/restaurant to have them turn it on. They had room on the dock for us and a 70 foot yacht. Our friends in Mystique had to tie up with us and another 60 foot yacht tied up to the 70 foot. Quite a site when you stood on land and looked at the 4 boats all anchored to each other and using the swim decks as walkways from boat to boat. Our 40 footer is starting to look like other people's dinghy's. We hear it will just be the beginning, with 200+ foot boats in the slips in Florida. Oh well, we still love our Nauti Escape! We went up to the "restaurant" for a cold beer with the crew from The Chair (the 70 footer) and Mystique. Once there we noticed a party starting to set up and of course I needed to find out what kind. I had already mentioned that I thought It was time to be wedding crashers! Turned out we were class reunion crashers! We were going to play the part of long lost classmates until we saw a picture of the class and it was apparent we weren't quite the right color. We are in the south. And we are in Alabama! So instead I started a question game with the party planner...the most athletic girl in the class and the cheerleader! We met the boy who changed the most....the guy that was "a string bean" and now needs to wear bib overalls. The girl who was best singer and the "white" Homecoming queen! The football captain and now preacher at the local church....which made it a dry party! How does anyone have a dry class reunion, was what we wondered! Later in the night we met the "black" Homecoming Queen who also happened to be the Choctaw County pig calling champion, and YES, for $10 she gave us her best call! By that time the party was over, we had exactly the night I had hoped for, and lots of great memories! Back to our boats for a good night's....or so I thought! Unfortunately, all night I dreamt I was with my classmates and they each told me I really needed a shower! I got up and immediately jumped in our shower and washed away the horrors of my dreams! This morning when we got up we were surrounded by what we thought were bloomimg Lily Pads but after reading some of our cruising books found out they are actually floating hyacinths. Regardless they were beautiful and Judy, Mopping Molly (air force Annies latest name) and I wondered how the boys..First Mate Jim, Captain Bob, and Captain Collar managed such a beautiful surprise! Today we are going about 60+ miles and will be anchoring out for what should be our last time! Sad to think we are that close to the end! We do have some leftover food from last night that we are hoping to use for alligator bait! Gotta at least get a pic of one! Wish us luck! Could be another dinghy night! We are hoping for a bug free, full moon, last anchor night!