Friends, Birthdays, and sailing north

The lagoon in Bara has been a meeting place for all friends that we met along the way. As one by one many left north, others Stepping Stone, Tynamara, and Whatcha Gonna Do made it festive for all 6 kids on board were great friends to the three on Gypsywind. Nikita teemed uup with the Zack and Dylan for some serious male inventioning and explosions. The highlight was the trip to the waterpark with Tynamara and Stepping Stone, so much so we returned with the full contingent from Stepping Stone for a duel Birthday for Sovona (6) and Nikita (17) you know when kids are happy when they have no time to talk. Everyone sported a scrape or burn from the tubes, its' Mexico of coarse, no rules so there were more than a few triples. The evening was crowned of with a lovely dinner at Maxicana Lindos. Kim went to the baker lady that morning and ordered the most tasty cake angel with strawberries, it was so big we handed out peices to the entire resturant including the 7 lady cooks who sang a mexican song that included pot banging. We travelled home to Gypsywind that evening (all with extra cake in hand) amazed at the warmth of friends.
the next evening Kim and the Kids took me out for dinner to Ramomes and got me on the bus heading for mexico City for hopefully my last check up for a while. All went well and I returned in 2 days good but worn out from travelling 28 hrs in the last 38. Nikita , Kiya, Noah and Kim had Gypsywind stocked and ready to go. While I was away, Stepping Stone & Tynamara left for Tenacatita, and Whatcha Gonna Do came in. We lifted anchor the next morning, headed for the fuel dock, Kim gave Gypsywind a fresh water deck scrub and we headed out of the channel for the last time. Tenacatita lay just 3 hrs away. halfway up the wind came up as predicted, 18 kts on the nose slowing us down to 4.5 kts. as we rounded the point we took some jib out and picked up 2 kts. Well it.s been 2 months since we arrived and we finally took our first sail north in a long time. We were on our way back to the Sea.