Family Vacation Day 6

First thing on the agenda today was the return of the rental car. Kenny and I had only rented it for 1 week and it had to be back at the rental place by 2 pm. Since we had plans to visit Kenny's Mom and Stepdad we had planned on heading over to the car rental place fairly early. Kenny had stomach issues this morning and so I went with Bernd, my Sis & my 2 nephews over to the rental place. My Mom had opted to stay back at the house with Daisy, since she didn't want to do that much traveling with her back. That way there would be someone at the house to take Daisy out and we wouldn't have to be back at the house after about 10 or 11 hours.

We got to the car rental place and Bernd went ahead to deal with the paperwork. Although he had a online reservation for the car it took way longer than you would expect to. Finally they brought the car and Bernd managed to put in the baby seat that we bought on the previous day. We then met up with Kenny at a local gas station. Kenny had taken some medication to sooth his stomach and for the most part it worked.

We then drove with 2 cars to Kenny's Mom in Newport Beach and got there around 12.30. We had some snacks and started to prep the boat, since Kenny's Stepdad had offered to take my family out on the his boat. Kenny and his Mom opted to stay back on land. So only Chuck, my family and I went out to the ocean. We had some decent wind in the harbor, but as soon as we hit the open ocean there was absolutely no wind at all. After some waiting around we opted to head back, but we did see the seals on one of the buoy. After we entered the harbor we had some wind and were tacking back and forth to get back to Kenny's Mom's place. Shortly before we got there something went wrong with one winch of the front sail...and we couldn't roll up that sail. So Chuck ordered my sis and my 2 nephews under deck and we lowered the main sail and took the boat by motor to the dock. Leonhard wasn't a particularly happy camper about that, but I think he understood the reasons for it. On the dock Chuck, Bernd and I finally managed to roll the front sail back up...at least temporarily. While we were doing that Leonhard helped taking out stuff from the boat.

Kenny had already started BBQ and as soon as we were done with the boat it was time for lunch. We had burgers, hot dogs, beans & strawberries. All very yummy. After lunch we hung out a little, while Leonhard tried to catch some fish from the dock. Around 5.30 we headed back home.

All in all it was a great and fun day!!