Max is five!
The birthday flags are out because Max turned five years old yesterday. Below the Canadian flag, the signal flags spell out MAX5 and at least one other boat decoded that and wished him a happy birthday. The kids actually woke up on a different boat in the morning because we had made friends with another […]
Air and Space Museum
Hampton is home to a fabulous museum, because it is so close to Langley Field, the birthplace of America’s air force and NASA. The museum is very ‘hands on’ with plenty of flight simulators – very tricky. Max managed to get the DC-9 to take off but shortly after he calls me over and stands […]
Ingrates!
We’re sailing south, a long trip, and Gesa comes up on deck having spent some time preparing a bite for the kids. Since she finds it hard to work down in the galley when at sea, this is a particular labour of love. “The delacacies I prepare for our kids,” she tells me, “mushroom, cucumber, […]
Solomons to Hampton, Gesa writes….
We’ve travelled a lot in the last few days and are now resting in Hampton, getting some jobs done and hiding out from some more wet and windy weather. Gesa describes the travelling days nicely in her recent email to friends, so I share it with everyone else here. ——————————- I have ‘escaped’ and find […]
Halloween Aftermath
I like the days after halloween. I get lots of sweets to eat! Whilst we have our issues with the kids, especially Mr Max who takes the word ‘no’ as a red rag to a particularly stubborn bull, I must say that when it comes to Halloween candy, Gesa’s parenting skills worked a treat, so […]
A few more Halloween photos
Trick or Treat?
We’ve been keen to find a place where the kid’s could join in the Halloween fun and games that is so popular here in the US. Solomons, a little village in Maryland on the Patuxent River, looked like it might fit the bill and turned out to do so admirably. – A walk around the […]
Meltdown Max
Another sequence of ‘life with Max’ pictures. He is something of a Jekyll and Hyde character is our Mr Max, and on a stroll around Solomons village today he turned on the darker side. Demanding to be carried he reacted very badly to ‘later, maybe’ and decided that perhaps screaming, hitting and namecalling would help […]
Sailing Max
On passage yesterday, Max put on his lifejacket and joined us on deck for a good while, clearly bored with lack of attention from us or his sister who was buried in her book. Gesa captured a lot of photos of him sitting beside the cockpit door, where he is out of the wind but […]
Issieism
In Baltimore, we chat to a man on the quayside. He asks where we’re from, we tell him. “You sailed here? Get outta town!” Issie is very offended. Why do we have to leave town?