John Pennekamp and Super Bowl

    Our plans were to take Pekabu out to John Pennekamp State Park for a sail, snorkeling, sightseeing, and BBQ.

Unfortunately, the deepest draft for the park is 4 feet and we take 5.  As to the jellyfish we had seen yesterday, there is now a “jellyfish alert” posted for this area so snorkeling is definitely out.  As a result, we went with Plan B.  Howie drove all of the ladies, while Pete, Dan, and John rode the bikes up to the park.  It is a beautiful park, apparently newly renovated.  It has a wonderful snorkeling area “seeded” with a wreck to explore.  There are nature walks, an aquarium, canoes to rent, a campground, in a beautiful setting plus you can book a ride on the glass bottom boat from within the park out to Molasses Reef.  We saw the aquarium and walked the park.  We were sorry we didn’t pack our snorkeling gear and food so we could prolong our stay.

    We returned back to the Marina and enjoyed a mid-afternoon BBQ with salads and all the fixings. Afterwards we headed up to the pool to relax and read for a while.

Yep, we are really here

Great colored floats ... Atleast here they can't foul our props!

     Our day continued with Super Bowl, which starts at 6:20 PM on the veranda.  Frank, of Irony, has been working on the Super Bowl pool this week. We had about 15 cruisers, 2 TV, and tons of food on the veranda. Connie and Walt, of Arkeoo, along with her dad, Bob and Lucia, of Lucia of CCYC, drove up from Marathon to join us for the evening.  I think the TV ads created more interest than the game since very few had vested interest in the teams.  The ads that I saw this year were pretty good compared to many of those in the past years. As to the game, it wound up being a very close game with Green Bay wining by 3. Since Kelli is such a Steeler’s fan, for her sake, I wish they had won. . . .Perhaps next year, Kelli.

     Oh yea! We won $10 in the pool for the second quarter scoring.

~  ~ (\_~ ~ ~     Kathy and Pete