'To boldly go where no one has relaxed before'

It's now Sunday afternoon, and we've been in living in Paradise for three days now. However, paradise can be a busy place when you have to re-commission a boat for a five month trip! Thanks to our lovely support crew, Fraser and Edi,who lent us their hurricane-free dock for the summer, all has gone very smoothly and we've had lots of fun wining and dining in between shopping and shopping and shopping! (Only for boating equipment, I promise!)Captain Bill is just inflating the dinghy now. We bought the Toronto one down with us on 'Jet Blue' and have sent the Florida one back to Toronto by UPS. Strange, you may think! Well, yes, but the Florida one had a slow puncture which we could never find, and we felt it would be safer to slowly sink into the hypothermic waters of Lake Ontario than to do so in the shark infested waters of south Florida and the Bahamas!
When we arrived on Thursday morning after a 3 a.m.start from Niagara-on-the-Lake via Buffalo to Fort Lauderdale, we found our boat had been cleaned and was looking really ship-shape. Since we've been here we've had the air-conditioning mended (Temperatures in high 80s F) and had a diver clean the bottom and put on a new 'Zinc'! (Some of you may know what this means. If not, don't worry.)
Tomorrow is the big day when we take off to 'go boldly where no one has relaxed before'. This is slight exagerration, as the whole of this area of Florida is filled with people and boats doing nothing but relaxing - whether it be at 50+mph or 5 knots under sail.
Tonight we have invited Fraser and Edi onboard for dinner. We plan to test out our new BBQ and eat up some of the vast quantity of food we bought yesterday at 'Publix' supermarket. Bill has a fishing rod now, and says that soon we shall be self-sufficient as far as protein goes anyway.
Tomorrow we'll head for Fort Lauderdale - probably via the ICW so that we can look at all the mansions en route.
'Hasta la vista' for now.