June 03, 2000 -- David's Home

On June 3, knowing that David, my brother, would be arriving from Baltimore today and heading out tomorrow for Petaluma, CA, I decided that I wanted to be there when he arrived home. We puttered around the boat for a bit, then called Yvonne, who came out and picked us up. We spent the day goofing off and talking about how things were going. David arrived home, and after he got changed, we spent some time catching up with each other. Then we suggested going out to dinner. David and Yvonne liked the idea, so we suggested that we head back to the boat and meet them around 7:30 PM EDT at the dinghy dock to head out to dinner. We got back to the boat expecting thunderstorms, that did not hit. We talked to a boat called Phase II about what we had heard and were expecting. They moved their boat a bit, then let out additional chain. We tuned up the radar to see the squall lines, and decided that it would be good to move our reservations to 8:30 PM. I headed out to pick up David and Yvonne because they were already on their way when we decided what we should do. At 8:15 PM, we headed out to dinner since the squall lines were moving south and west of us. We had dinner at the Port City Chop House. It was pretty good, but a little on the expensive side for the quality of food. Since both of us are smokers, we were seated in the bar area. This worked out well since they had a TV that we watched occasionally since they were giving storm alerts. We had just finished dinner when the county just north of us issued a storm alert. We headed back to the boat, and David and Yvonne joined us. We hung out on the boat watching the squall lines for a bit until, during a lull, I took David and Yvonne back to the dock. It was a fun evening!