Monday, June 21, 1993-We join Mom on sail

The lost is found!
After breakfast, Roy rode his bicycle to a marine supply store to get some charts, and I started the laundry. When I got back to the boat, I turned on the VHF radio. About half an hour later, I heard the marine operator calling the Jofian! Hooray! It was Jeanette. As I had expected, they had tried to phone Kathy, Carol, and Jim yesterday. Kathy and Jim hadn't been home, but Carol was. She told them we were at West Palm Beach, but she couldn't remember the name of the marina. In fact, she thought we were at a yacht club, so Nancy and Jeanette drove to West Palm Beach and checked all the yacht clubs, including one a block from where we were. They were that close at 8:30 p.m., while I was sitting in the Greyhound station in Fort Lauderdale!
They spent the night at a motel, and then phoned Kathy at work. Kathy didn't have the name of the marina quite right, but she remembered it was half a block south of Flagler Bridge, so that made it easy.
The villain of the piece turned out to be the Holiday Inn. Check-out time was eleven, but Nancy and Jeanette had waited in their room until 11:10. The operator must have rung the wrong room when I phoned. They waited in the lobby until 11:30, but no one paged them. Later, Nancy phoned the Holiday Inn a dozen times to see if there was a message, but they kept telling her there wasn't one. And they wouldn't even let her leave a message for me!
At 9:30 Sunday morning, Nancy had tried to phone us via the marine operator, but unfortunately, we hadn't heard the call.
What a relief to see Nancy and Jeanette when they arrived at 12:30! The rental car didn't have to be returned until tomorrow morning, so when the laundry was done and Roy returned, we drove around Palm Beach, looking at all the beautiful houses. Then we went to a Great Western Bank so Roy could cash his income tax refund check. We went to a grocery store, but their prices were too high, so all we bought was a loaf of bread. Stopped at a produce stand and bought some vegetables. Then we found a Publix market and bought a lot of groceries at very reasonable prices. It was sure nice to have a car to take the groceries to the boat in.
As soon as the groceries were put away, Nancy and I took the car to the airport and returned it. Took a cab back to the marina.
After supper, we turned the boat around, so we'll be ready to leave in the morning.
Nancy and Jeanette slept on the doghouse roof.

(Note: The front desk at the Holiday Inn actually called us to tell us that we had to check out, before 11:00. I spent the big money for room service so we could be in the room when Mom called. I told them that we were eating breakfast still and that we were waiting for a phone call. We stalled leaving the room as long as we could. They said we could wait in the lobby for the phone call. We must have been at the front desk when Mom called the first time, and they said nothing. It was obvious when we were waiting in the lobby that they were not going to let us know if we got a call, they were not paying any attention at all. So that is when we decided to drive up the coast and look for them.)