12/28/14 N. Miami, Fla

We discovered very early this morning NEVER TRAVEL MAJOR CITIES ON THE WATER ON SUNDAY ON A HOILDAY WEEKEND!!!! Coming across Biscayne Bay was smooth and a beautiful day till we got closer to Miami!!!  OMG!!!! the boat traffic was worse than I 95 !!!!  People driving 90% of the boats have no manners and just down right rude!!!! After we finally made it through the major downtown area it did improve some but even tonight on the north side of the city our boat is rocking with every boat passing for as agiain no manners and courtesy of anchored boats!!! Enough said about that, we will make it through the night and be on our way again tomorrow. Hopefully a better anchorage situation tomorrow night. We have had the most wonderful weather so there are blessings in all of this!, Ha 

We anchored in Hollywood a suburb of N. Miami. Left overs for dinner to hard to cook wth the boat rocking!!ha   Had a few computer issues today so, thank you Jim, via a phone call, for coming to my rescue and correcting those!! We are just resting this evening, a few TV channels available,  and will try and sleep soon as I want to be up and moving early!!

I am posting some pics I took today. 

Love to all, please continue to pray for our journey!!! Fran and Capt Rod

A collection of gathered boats right in the middle of the bay in a shallow area!! Bet there was not a beer anywhere!! Ha ha

I wish I could have gotten a pic of these balls in the water!!  People were in these rolling on the water!! Cool huh!! They are HUGH!!!!

12/24/14 Wednesday Miami, Fla Christmas Eve

Santa is on his way!!!! We have had a great trip today traveled 60 miles fighting a 15-20 MPH wind most of the day!! 88'degrees !!! You just got to love it!!!! Slow day as the majority of the old bridges in Florida are low bridges and require opening and closing for boat traffic every 30 minutes, so if you ar there early you have to sit and wait for the time of opening!!! Sure did put a kink in our time schedule as one bridge we had to wait an hour and 45 mins due to construction on the bridge!!, Rain is expected tonight!! We anchored just south of Miami at Hollywood !! Christmas Eve dinner was an assortment of leftovers, that needed to eaten!! We will contact the kids this evening and see if we can see what they are doing on his Christmas Eve!!! Fun day coming through Fort Lauderdale as it is city of mega yachts and homes!!! Decorations were fantastic!!! Hope for a good travel day tomorrow, sure would like to be in the keys tomorrow but I really doubt it!! Crossing the bay to the keys in a lot of wind is NOT fun!! Rod Is very optimistic and says we will be there!! Hehe    May have to delay!!!  Love to all, and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!  Fran and Capt Rod

Got to love it when you want to see snow soooo bad you cover your yard in fake stuff!!  hehe

These people even put Santa ready to go down the chimney !!

OR we could have all just scheduled to get on this cruise ship as a lot of people were doing and go to the Bahamas!!! Our boat looked like a dinghy as we went by!!!  Hehe