We are here....and what a mess it was. Seems that the electricity had been off for quite some time. Needless to say the chicken in the freezer was more than rank. We could smell the boat when we flew over!!! We managed to get that all straightened out and began working on our list of things to do. The biggie was getting the dinghy rigged, installed and mounted to the swim platform. That should be completed on Monday. As we near the end of all the other items on the list, we are planning a couple of shake down day cruises this weekend. One to Grafton and another to Alton. If all goes well, then we plan to pull out of Polestar Marina and head toward Kentucky on Tuesday, July 22. We've heard that the Cumberland River is pleasure boat friendly and at this point we are thinking that anything is better than where we are. There is a real reason they call the Mississippi the "big Muddy". It is!!!! and smells bad too. We are a month behind and heading in a totally different direction than we had originally planned. But what the heck...we are having fun on a Big Boat.