The Yates family took a few days off and went to Corpus Christi Texas. As usual, Joelle our travel planner, found a great deal on a room. Only $69 a night and that included free hot breakfast buffet, free cookies, free fountain drinks 'till 10:00 pm, free hot snacks at 3:00 pm and 3 free cocktails per night. The latter sadly went unused. This great hotel was the Drury Inn on Lepard St. All the staff was pleasant and helpful. The rooms were clean, but a little small for all four of us.

We finally glued one piece of boat to another. This was a long time in coming for one main reason. Money! I was planning all along to use epoxy to glue and coat the boat. I had picked out the epoxy at a local boat supply shop and it was going to cost about $100. However, when I went back to the boat shop last week I found that what I thought were gallon containers were really half gallon. This plus the fact that I would need more than I had first thought drove the price to over $300 just for the glue. This was about what I was planning to spend for the whole boat!