Greek's Folly on the Great Loop: Sun and Mon, May 28,29 Delaware City Marina

Sun and Mon, May 28 and 29 Delaware City Marina

We woke up and headed to church - a small, old Methodist church. The congregation was very small and older but very welcoming. They also sang some of our favorite songs which is always enjoyable for us. The difficult job for the day was for Tom to remove the anchor windlass from the bow of the boat so it can be sent out to have the motor repaired. We are very thankful that John is always available and seems eager to help us with our projects. We can get them done eventually but having John help makes the job more tolerable and productive for Tom. Colletta is very thankful to have both of these men here.

We enjoyed pizza and conversation aboard Tinacious for the evening - a slow day.

On Memorial Day we awoke to rain again, however we gathered our gear and walked up to Patriot Point to observe a Memorial Day ceremony with the rest of the town. There were many locals there and the program was excellent. A naval reserve officer sang the National anthem, a speech by the VFW former post commander, a gun salute by a group of reserves, a cannon shot by a colonial reenactment group, and singing by the community choir - in which Tom and Pam proudly participated and sang along. The ceremony was solemn, respectful, honored the fallen heroes as well as the survivors, and veterans. It was a pleasure to observe this holiday with these local veterans and townspeople. We honored the holiday in Tom's favorite manner - with ice cream. The afternoon was low key, went for a walk, tidied up the boat, and completed the evening by playing euchre again with Art and Pam and this time the girls won big!