I'm back. Again.

I haven't had much Internet lately so I haven't blogged.... But I still kept track of the days and made sure that I wouldn't forget anything, well I kind failed on that... I wrote down the stuff we did but I didn't write down the dates.... So this all happend I between my last blog and now, sorry for the inconvenience... But it's hard to blog on the boat... For me at least.. Every one else is better at it, any who.... After twin harbors (the last place I bogged from) we moved over to Avalon harbor... It was really weird... No one there had cars. They all had golf carts! I saw like 10 cars in that Intire town! It was really really wierd!!! Afte that we went back to the main land, we sayed at a yacht club called Baha Corinthian yacht club. It was a cool club but we got there when it was closed so we really just used it for bath rooms and a small pool they had, mind you there pool is very very chilly. While we were there we got a cab and went to Disney land!!!!!! We planed for Ben to have the most fun but it turns out Sam did. The next day we met one of Islas good friends (isle correct me if I'm wrong) who's name was lee. Her and her husband john took us to Huntington Beach for dinner. The next day we left BCYC and headed over to Balboa yacht club. We then met some of my moms good friend, Anna, Bob and there daughter Sophia. They took us to a kick ass Mexican place! I got a taco salad, it was really good! Today we came to ocean side yacht club! We are only spending one night here but we all wish we could spend longer! Every one is sooo nice and there food isn't to bad ether... We spent a good part of the after noon trying to save a fish that had some plastic around his neck. Unfortunately we couldn't and we quite trying.  And that brings us up to date. See you guys on the flip side.

Go to YouTube and search for "this baby likes to drive". It is the one posted byTwubbin 

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Just kicking it in Catalina and life is good!!! We went on a tour of the trans-Atlantic ocean liner called the Queen Marry. The tour guide was awesome and the ship itself was even better! It is a beautiful ship and the history of the vessel is really cool, after our tour we went on a haunted queen marry tour, it was really fun because Ben came with us, he normally doesn't do things like that because he is too scared, but he ended up liking it. After that we went to a Russian sub called the Scorpion. It was really cool, I might post some pictures later. After that we ate at P.F. changes…. What does the pf stand for? Any who I’m sick at the moment and I’m not enjoying it… my ears are clogged so I can’t dive when we are snorkeling. And I’m not having fun being crammed on the boat while I’m sick… but the warm weather is helping out!!!!

sep 28 13

We made it to santa cruze island! We are anchoring in a cove called smugglers cove, It is are first anchorage of this trip! It went surprisingly well... We put the anchore down and it stayed there! There's not much else you can ask for... All the kids are acting better and Samir cut her I lid a little bit. But other than that it is awesome the soller panama are kicking butt with giving us pover, and we are leaning how to beach the dingy with big waves... We almost flipped yesterday and everyone got wet. We don't have much service... So dad... It's not like I'm avoiding you, I just don't have service!!! And your probably going to respond with something like, "why didn't you blog yesterday and the day before that! I want to know what's going on!" And I would respond with something like " I know dad! I'm sorry! I have been busy with having fun and enjoying my life on the boat!" 

Now for what we are doing today. We are going to climb to the top of the mountains on the island that we are achoring next to! I'm excited!.

sep 30 13

Well... I could die tomorrow and still know that I saw something that most humans on this planet have never seen and will never see. What is it you may ask? What did you see you might say? Well I’ll tell you what I say. It was earlier this morning, we pulled up the anchor and started to head out of our nice calm anchorage and started to head to LA! About 2 hours after leaving we saw some dolphins... not much but a good sized pod. They were swimming at our bow and playing in our wake, but wait! There’s more! We lifted out heads to only the sight of fins! There were more than 150 dolphins jumping in the air! I still don’t believe my eyes but I know it happened! It was the most exhilarating sight I have ever seen!!! I will never forget it, but my favorite part was witnessing a mother teaching her baby how to surface for air. Belly to belly the mom would push the baby straight out of the water. Another awesome thing to witness while the dolphins were under the boat was hearing them click and squeal to each other.

While that was awesome I had a few other exciting experiences. the day before yesterday we were launching Bmo (our inflatable dingy) from a beach with good sized waves we saw a seal playing in the surf and as we were pushing Bmo out into the calm surf, or so we thought, a wave came out of nowhere and that seal came within my arms reach and then darted off, my mom who was the one to saw it all said his head was at my head level coming out of the curling wave as it hit us... I wish I saw it... but it was still cool. the next day we went exploring with Bmo and we found a beach that Sam just needed to play on so we cowboy-ed up and went for it... did I mention that the waves were curling at the very last minute and the beach was all rocks and scary... if we messed it up we all could have gotten hurt. So as soon as we landed we waited for calm and pushed the boat out with Marcus and the kids on it to ensure there safety and me and my mom swam out to Bmo after they were out of harm’s way. Adrenalin was at a crucial, 100%

Sep 23 13

Benny and Marcus have returned!!!!! It great to have them back. It has only been 4 day but it seems like a lot longer. They were at a YMCA camp with a bunch of his friends from school! I looks and sounds like they had a lot of fun. We all just got done with our family movie and we are saying good bye to Santa Barbra. Tomorrow we are going to leave and get to the Chanel islands. I am ready to move on because I have been here for 9 days! So I'm excited to get going. Well I also remebered why eating out with the family is kinda hard. With the Ben Sam combo it is really hard to enjoy being in public, but then what kids are good in public the weather over here is awesome and I'm enjoying it so much. See you guys in Seattle soon.

Max

sep 22 13

Another successful movie night with the family, we watched the best Disney movie of all times! The Lion King!!!! Every time I watch it, it gets better. My mom just informed my about the second movie and I might watch that soon. Any who, I am doing a science project right know for school, it is support to show pigment in leaves. Any way it will take 3 hours to finish so it’s going to be a late night. On a different note the wind here is crazy! It was blowing like crazy in one direction and 5 minutes later the wind switches 180°!!! I really don’t understand how it does it but it does.

Today we did all the laundry on the boat and now everything is clean. Ii still haven’t put away my cloths but that’s on the agenda.  We also tried to exchange or empty propane tank and it turns out we can only refill it, but not at that location, so we need to find a place where we can refill it so we can cook things… like we did today, we had mashed potatoes and kielbasa. It was an interesting combination but it worked out.

My neck and back stopped hurting and I’m feeling great.

Love Max

sep 21 13

the night is winding down to an end and the wind is howling and whistling in between the masts of the sail boats around us, my mom, Sam and I just got done with watching Tarzan and 2 episodes of the penguins of Madagascar, they are getting ready to go to bed right now. I finished all my school stuff and am also getting ready for bed... I had a really bad night last night and I hope I have a better one tonight. I just got into a new series... bleach... I am kind of addicted and can’t stop reading it online. I am also dealing with some weird aches and pain in my back and neck... I know where it comes from, it comes from me being too tall to live on a boat... so I decided about a half hour ago that I would spend the least possible time down below. I have been spending way too much time inside reading and I am going to be outside more, tomorrow we are going to go and get some more propane for the boat and also get some school supplies. I’m very eager to come back to Seattle and I can’t wait to see every one up there.