3 months already

Can you believe it.

Michael is 3 months old!

What an amazing time we're having. He is such an angel and other than the little snorting and sniffling in the early hours, he is basically sleeping through. The little guy hardly cries and has found his smile. It's the cutest thing in the world and melts your heart.

I think the most frustrating thing for me right now is that I am not getting to spend enough time with him... okay well, as much time as I'd like. I mean, I've been missing bath time most evenings cos of work. And then weekends come along and it's more work, hockey matches and some socialising, which is important, but takes away from those sweet moments....

And sweet they are. Sitting there with him in my arms. He stares at his daddy with love (and sometimes confusion) in his eyes. I talk to him and he smiles. Then he drifts off to sleep. It is truly wonderful.

As Jimmy Buffet said "I took a trip on a sailing ship..." but not to Jamaica. Instead we headed south around Cape Point to Simon's Town where we tied up for the night, and then headed out up the East Coast. We first had to round one of the most feared Cape's in the world... Cape Aguhlas where the Indian and Atlantic oceans meet in what is sometimes an incredibly violent encounter. Luckily we timed things perfectly and went in between to rather large cold fronts leaving us with little wind, flat sea's and [mostly] sunny days. It was effing cold tho and even snowed in Plettenberg Bay!!

There were a few interesting moments during our 4 days at sea. On rounding Cape Point we came face to face with the pride of the SA navy, one of the 4 new frigates. They even sent a big helicopter to circle us. We only found out later that we had wandered through their live firing exercise....

We also had some interesting engine troubles. Both engines were getting starved of diesel cos of the fuel filters. Had lots of fun siting on a smoking hot engine, my head ducked down beside it attempting to bleed out some diesel... at night.... on a rolling sea... Murphy you bastard, alwasy showing up at the most inopportune moments.

Anyway, I survived, and luckily so cos I still need to update my life insurance.