We really started our own kick off party on Saturday afternoon on Pat Garfield's fabulous yacht Morning Star. Marilyn, Patty, Mimi and I spent the better part of the morning at the local grocery store trying to buy everything that could possible taste good, we had scallops, shrimp, pomegranates, cheeses, bacon along with numerous other goodies. The check out took twenty minuets so you can imagine how much had to be taken down to Morning Star for our party. Only problem, we forgot to tell Mimi that that time for the party had been moved up from 6pm to 4pm. She was not happy with us when we did let her know this small detail. But true to Mimi form, everything was prepared to perfection.
The bar was handled by Patty and the pomegranate martinis flowed all evening. What fun we all had. A great time was had by all, especially when Sharon Day and her husband showed up to wish us all a bon voyage. What a treat that was.
So Sunday we had to party again at the offical Ha Ha kick off party. Our crew of Marilyn Anderdson and husband Eric had gotten together with us several months back to decide on our costume for the party. After much debate we all decided on San Francisco flower children as our theme. Once again our computer is not allowing me to upload the pcitures but let me tell you how well our hippie outfits were received. We won the most unique division!!! We were certainly unique.
Now all the partying is over and we leave the dock first thing tomorrow morning for the start of the race. All kidding aside, we are ready to go. The boat looks great, all little problems addressed we hope and enough food for an army. With any luch we will post again Thurs when we get to Turtle Bay
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