A great start, and then....

Woke up early and discovered it was daylight savings time. In actuality it was 5:45 a.m. but we got the coffee and breakfast started, kids woke up and got dressed. It was record time and ready to go on our way to Hampton, VA. It was a beautiful sunny and calm morning. Several other boats in this marina were also heading out today as the weather had been so windy previous. Mattias was out loosening some lines that were wrapped on the pilons. He came in and mentioned that he doesn't really like pilons but prefers cleats to tie up lines. In the next five minutes he peeked in the cabin again to say that he had a sliver under his fingernail and needed something to remove it (got it from the pilon). Well, the sliver was more like a plank, all the way under the nail to the quick. My clipping and plucking did nothing. I wasn't brave enough to offer up a whisky shot and do the deed myself (as our friend Dr. Doug did on Andrew when he had a fishhook in his finger). We knew the next stop was the doctor. Who's open in tiny Deltaville on a Sunday? No one, so we climbed back into the rental car that thankfully the agency did not pick up the day before and drove some 30 miles to the nearest ER in Glouscester, VA. Long story short, the doctor, (who happened to be from St. Louis Park and previously worked at our Family Practice Clinic in Edina before retiring), gave Mattias a few shots under the fingernail to numb it. By the third, Mattias was being restrained by two nurses, gauze in mouth while the doctor could loosen the nail to remove the sliver fragments. A couple tetanus and penicillan shots and then a vicadine sedative by mouth later and he was good to go. So now he has to walk around with the hand elevated as if giving us the "bird"! We hope to have a better start tomorrow when we will attempt Hampton again...
More later,
Carrie