On January 15, we spent the day taking it easy. Winds were still blowing pretty strong at 20+ knots of wind so we took a walk to see what the ocean looked like. After a 20 minute walk, we approached the beach. As soon as we cleared the first dune, we were assaulted with wind blown sand. The seas weren't quite as rough as we expected, but they were high enough that we were glad we weren't out in them or heading out in them! We returned to the boat and spent the rest of the day reading, playing games and napping. We decided to go out Saturday night. We headed out around 10:30 PM EST and caught a cab pretty quickly. We arrived at the bar and were greeted to a sight of an exceptionally small number of people there. To make matters worse, we also discovered that the bar did not serve liquor, just beer. We quickly decided to head back to the boat. On January 16, we headed out to look around a little bit. We checked out the Lincoln St. "mall". This is a street that has been closed to through traffic and converted to a kind of a park area. We checked out the stores there and were mildly disheartened to see that 'mallification' was occurring here. The charm of the small shops was slowly being sucked dry. We then walked down to Alton and wandered there for a bit before heading over to South Beach. At the time, we did not know that an arts festival was going on. The streets were extremely crowded with people, so we quickly exited South Beach and went in search of a grocery store. After finding one, and finishing our shopping, we returned to the boat. We spent the rest of the afternoon watching TV, reading and writing logs.