Day 2: Sailing Into the Sound

We sailed out into the Sound the sun started to set on the horizon and soon dropped anchor after about half an hour or so; then started the late afternoon activities just before dinner. We had two choices for activities, they were kayaking and swimming; I chose to do neither since the water was frigid and the black flies were out in numbers.

As the sun finally dipped down behind the mountains darkness set in and it was dinnertime. Dinner consisted of a lovely vegetable puree soup followed by a hearty meal of roasted new potatoes, roast beef with gravy and roasted vegetables and squash.

After dinner the tables were cleared and it was time to break out the games which included all the old favourites like cards (the old standby), Monopoly, Candyland, Scrabble, Jenga and even Connect Four for those of you who remember.

My first choice of game for the night was Scrabble since a bunch of people that I was on tour with wanted to play as well. While we were playing we met 2 kids who were traveling with their parents around the South Island as well (but not on tour with us). They wanted to know if we'd like to play Jenga so we finished up our Scrabble game and setup Jenga. Little did we know that we were going to be playing with a little Jenga master. This kid must have been about 5 years old or so but he managed to move those blocks out with an ease that made it look like those blocks were slicked in butter; out of the 3 games we Board" played he won them all.

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