HOT WATER!!!

It's been two days now living on this boat and two days of cold showers!! I hate cold showers to begin with! In fact I love hot hot hot showers - like abnormally hot showers!! Today has been an exceptionally cold day for south florida, and all I want is a hot shower! I refuse to shave my legs until I have hot water!!.....and they're getting really hairy - at this rate by the end of two weeks I'm going to be a hairy bitch ;)

I went up South Beach today with the captain. I was impressed. It's art deco in style with lots of hotels and restaurants right on the side walk. Apparently, in the late 80's south beach was full of druggies and homeless people, and all the buildings were boarded up and abandoned. The city owed a lot of back taxes on the buildings and was willing to sell them for the price of the back taxes. Several gay guys from New York came in and bought the buildings and refurbished them with brightly colored paint and an art deco style. The buildings were made into hotels with the lobby being on the first floor. There was no room for restaurants, so the restaurants are actually on the sidewalks. It's a pretty charming place....during the day time. I was under the impression that it would be full of high rise condos, beefed up muscle men and kim kardashian look-alikes with loud techno music jamming - which might be the case after dark. It was a nice surprise!

I've included a few pictures of my living quarters on the boat. The first picture is the engine room on the boat. Today was cold and rainy so running outside along the beach wasn't an option. I learned from past employees on this boat that the engine room makes for a nice workout location, so this is where I worked out this evening! Now, I'm sweaty and getting ready for my cold shower....grrrrrr!

My head

First view of my cabin

Second view of my cabin

My New Orleans apartment before I unpacked the boxes! Pretty cool huh?