We’re truly grateful for our friends: they make life more fun and meaningful. Our hearts are especially full after our best buddies threw a surprise send-off filled with merriment, excellent refreshments, appropriate costumes and fun, practical travel gifts. After our good neighbors the Meade’s and Roviras’s hosted us to a cozy gourmet dinner one night, other dear friends cooked up a festive get-together last night to toast our departure and remind us how much we treasure these relationships. As you can see, sailing silliness was the theme at the Wise residence last night.

Our new life-jackets were signed by the party animals!