Brrrrrrrr…

Originally posted on December 7, 2014, by cruisingrunner

For a year and a half, we’ve been hot and sweaty. Sometimes crazy hot like when we were in Bahia Concepcion last year for July 4th and the heat was debilitating and we spent pretty much a full day in the water in the shade under Exodus. Sometimes only mildly hot, but always hot. And humid. I stopped using lotion and hair conditioner. Exodus was designated a “shirts optional” evening hangout (don’t get excited, that mostly just applied to the guys.) I can recall school days when the boys and I would move back and forth from the salon to the cockpit trying to find the coolest spot, and then we’d tell each other, “Stop sitting so close to me!” In the Marquesas, I used to wake up at 5am in order to do yoga before the sun rose above the cliffs. OK, you get the idea. But now we are in New Zealand, and Brrrr… we are just not used to this.

1) Comforters that we haven’t seen since shortly after leaving Marina del Rey are now back on the beds.
2) I wear my uggs and a ski hat in the mornings and evenings. And sometimes a scarf.
3) Rum doesn’t need ice.
4) If I need to thaw something for dinner it needs to come out of the freezer first thing. I can’t wait until 5pm and have it thawed by 6.
5) We can buy ice cream at the store and have it back on Exodus before it is a soupy mess
6) Shower bag showers need to be taken by about 2pm if you want hot water. And you definitely want hot water.
7) I need lotion every 5 minutes and chapstick every 10.
8) The bilges are finally good wine cellars
9) Our power consumption has plummeted since the fridge and freezer don’t have to work so hard. Seriously, our batteries are loving it, and we didn’t even plug into shore power in the marina.
10) I still don’t have to shave my legs because I don’t wear shorts.

Some of these are positives, some negatives, and so far I am still loving change. It was sunny today; I even took off my sweatshirt during my run. So, it’s warming up and summer is still progressing, but I still don’t think I’ll ever want to get in the water. Except for the hot springs.

-D.