It's so cold!

Still in Elizabeth City.  We have finished day 4 of our "48 hour welcome".  We decided to beat the cold and rented a car yesterday and drove 3 hours to Morehead City to 1)stay warm 2) see a friend 3) pick up a boat part.  The well-meaning (I'm sure...) Elizabeth City Power Co. disconnected our power cord yesterday while we were gone, coiled it up neatly next to the boat, and left us an extrodinarily nice note saying that they could not provide us electric power.  oh, well.  It was good while it lasted.

En route to Morehead City, we toured Edenton - what a cute town! http://www.edenton.com/ 
Edenton was the first permenant settlement in NC. I would have loved to walk around, have coffe, etc, but we were in a bit of a rush to meet our friend and it was COLD AND WINDY. But very cute. We'll visit it again!  That statue that you can see from the back is honoring their Confederate War Dead.  There is an identical one in Elizabeth City.

We also saw New Bern - need to take some time there Tryon Palace  http://www.tryonpalace.org/governors_palace.php
The royal governor of NC lived there in the 1770's   New Bern was the first capital of NC.

Burr - 16 tonight but we think we can leave tomorrow morning. There is still snow on the rear of the boat from yesterday (it's ice now...). But tonight should be the last of the frigid days for a bit. Hopefully we'll be further south by the next cold snap. We sure hope so.  It was snowing horizontally yesterday when we left the boat.   The heat pump is running in the boat right now and I have on a long-sleeved tee shirt & 2 sweatshirts, flannel lined jeans, 2 pairs of socks, and shoes.  I'm not toasty warm.  It's 26 outside & windy, 53 in the bedroom, 61 in the salon, and 45 in the front of the boat.  Time to cook something warm on the stove.

Luke replaced the bilge pump, the bilge pump float switch, and the bilge pump circuit breaker.  Lotsa electrical bits and pieces scattered around.  Better work now!  Smokey was most interested and wanted to help. She really wanted to go down into the bilge and explore it.

Before we took the car back today we decided to run past the Elizabeth City Wal-Mart.  oh, my...biggest Wal-Mart store on the east coast...wow.  Anything and everything you could possibly want.  But, it was built on an old farm field and the winds there are FIERCE.  Yes, it's a windy day, but that was horizontal wind, taking your breath away.

So, here's to tomorrow - let's hope we can make it across the Albemarle Sound and another 50 miles south!