last two weeks

These last two weeks have been mostly hanging out. We pulled into Jackson Creek near Deltaville so that we can make connections with Darrell's brother and family. We had all of them down here and took all of the nephews and their partners out for a sail and then we had barbeque picnic. The weekend of the 26-27 we left the boat at the Deltaville Marina and went to Richmond where we did some shopping and relaxed at Bernie and Ginger's house and this time their son Paul came and did his famous barbequed ribs. Good thing we put boat on slip as Sunday afternoon there was quite a storm with 50 knot winds and two boats on anchor let go. When we got back on Monday, it was also thunderstorms and we had to help an older gentleman reanchor two times. Off we went to Carter Creek to a lovely Hopps cove. More protected area and again sat out thunderstorms with winds up to 40 knots. Anchor holds well once we get it set in good! The town of Irvington here is like most we have seen---once a busy port or center, but now struggling to find an economy to survive. Steamboats came here and there is a good museum. We walked around and had a very good lunch at the Local. thursday JUly 30 we set out across the Rappohonock River to Urbanna as we thought we could get phone service there. No ATT service!!!, but an interesting town and we could use the WIFI at the library so busy e-mailing rather than phoning.