Where does the time go??

Wow, I was shocked to see I haven't filled you in since last Sunday.....I am totally losing track of time but I have read 3 books this week!  We did not end up going to Wal Mart but did get a ride from our new friends to the grocery store and a tour of Deltaville.  The town is very spread out and not easily accessible by foot.  We paid $5. to tie up the dink at the Deltaville Boatyard so that we could visit Gwen & Walter and Roxanne and Joe and  hoofed it a mile to the hardware store hoping to find a replacement for our coffee maker which decided it had had enough Monday morning.No such luck. Gary is now making coffee the McGiver way....boiling water and pouring it over the grounds into the pot from the coffee maker....where there's an addiction....there is a way!

We waited until Tuesday to get the bike tube Ryan had ordered for us only to find it won't work. The stem is for a bike that comes with its own tire pump so we are still without wheels.  

On Wednesday we left Deltaville and anchored in the Eastern Branch of Carter's Creek off of the Rappahanock River. We explored Wednesday night and Thursday morning and I found my dream house tucked up at the end of Carter's Creek.  Took me right back to a Kathryn Hepburn movie....I am in love!  Really, Virginia so far is the most beautiful scenery of the trip, lots of green and very few 'McMansions' ruining it all.

By noon on Thursday we were at the dock in Urbanna...., time to tend to necessities....pump out, garbage laundry, and water.  The dock fee was $63. which included electric, they had two washing machines (coin operated) so we didn't have to walk to the (nonexistent) laundromat , we pumped out our holding tank and filled up with 240 gallons of water, 1/2 mile on their courtesy bikes, to the grocery store for bread and lunch meat.....we were good to go.  Really, how can you top that!  Not to mention Urbanna is the lovelies little town, a nice old downtown with a drugstore that has a soda fountain where they serve breakfast and lunch....do all you (older) Algonac natives remember Hicks and the soda fountain??.....those types of stores still do exist.  Too cool!

We are currently anchored in another 'gunkhole' on the Corrotoman River about 7 miles from Urbanna. We have to hang out around here until Tuesday when we can pick up the oil filters we need to change the oil in the engines.  Auto parts stores can't get them and we had to order them and have them shipped.  The challenge in that is somewhere to ship them to....Urbanna Town Docks was receptive to our request to have them sent there so we will go back and pick them up on Tuesday.  Then we can get on with it....and head for Solomon's, Maryland.  

It is supposed to be the boater's be all and end all on the Chesapeake....we shall see.
I should have done this yesterday in Urbanna, our connection here is too slow to do the slide show or even add the pictures. We'll be moving the boat to a new spot tomorrow morning, maybe I'll have better luck there.  The scenery here is too beautiful not to share.