June 04, 2000 -- Hi's and Good byes

Around 10:30 AM, we headed into town. Yvonne was doing some running around with David, so we were right on the way. We headed back to their place because they needed our help to drop off the ship's van. David drove the coast guard van, Yvonne drove one of their friend's car, and Mike drove David's truck. When we got in, Mike asked me why he was the one driving. I told him that if we wrecked his truck (he just bought it late last year), I didn't want him mad at me. He groaned and drove, without incident. After dropping off the vehicles, we headed to lunch. We had just enough time to enjoy lunch before we had to get back to the house so David could change and head off to his flight. We went with Yvonne to the airport and saw David off, then headed back to the house for a little while. We headed back to the boat since we had made plans with John and Bonnie of Bonniewinds for cocktails. When we got back, I tried to hail them. Emerald Dragon hailed us, and we invited them over for cocktails as well. Right after we got off the radio with them, Bonnie Winds called and we set cocktail time for 6:00 PM. Once our social plans were set, we went to work changing the filters on our water maker. We started out changing only the 2 prefilters; however, after tracing everything out, we discovered there are 5 prefilters, including 2 dirt filters (25 and 5 micron), 2 charcoal and 1 limestone filter. It was a bit tedious, but well worth it. It was a fun evening. We compared notes on cruising locations, and experiences as well as our plans for the future. The one thing you can say for cruisers is they are a varied collection!