Boats and visitors in anticipation

When someone decides to buy a boat, the excitement and the anticipation in the days, weeks or months before the big day, grows stronger and stronger as the time draws nearer. The preparation involved feeds these feelings as one dreams and envisions the reality of owning their own boat. Size doesn't matter in the excitement category. From a small skiff all the way up to a yacht, the bubbly feeling that you get as you get closer and closer to realizing ownership is simply wonderful. Whether you plan on fishing, skiing, sailing or cruising, one pictures what life is going to be like after acquiring their boat. Trips to the marine supply house are expensive but it all adds to the adrenilin that is building up inside you. The day finally arrives and your boat is registered and has all of the necessary items to allow you to enjoy the type of boating that turns you on.

After a period of time the newness wears off and your boat isn't going out on the water quite as often as it had in the past. Maybe you've had to repair one or two things that weren't expected to break down. The money that you used to put into the boat is now going for karate classes for your children or another time and money consuming hobby. Pretty soon the slip rental is getting to be like a storage unit payment and you and your spouse have a conversation or two about the money versus the time spent using the boat. Then one day it happens. Someone comes by and after a bit of haggling, that person leaves with your boat and title and has left you with a few bucks in your hand. They weren't kidding when the old saying came up about a boaters two happiest days of his life, the day he buys a boat and the day he sells it.

Compare that with the actions you take and the feelings that you have when someone that you know, but haven't seen in years, calls you up and lets you know that they are going to be in your town for a week or two and the reason for coming is to visit YOU! In order to make the trip more affordable, they politely confirm that it's okay to stay with you a portion of the time. Of course it's okay! Wouldn't have it any other way.

In the days and weeks before the company arrives, you find yourself getting excited about the visit and checking into the "around the town" section of the news to find things to do while they are in town. One can almost feel like a tour guide getting ready for a client to arrive. You start filling up the refrigerator with exra everything, from steaks to beer. Tickets to the hockey game with some decent seats would be in order. You start thinking of which days you should take off from work so you can maximize the time that you can spend with your friend and it all starts adding up. Oh well! We're going to have a ball and we haven't seen them in years. What's a few bucks?

The day finally arrives and how wonderful it is to see the ones that you love that you haven't seen in years. You do the entertaining and fire up the grill every other night. Show the "tourists" all of the high points of your town, let them know just how well your doing and how cool it is to live where you do.

Yes, I do believe that you know the rest of the story. Even though you and your company have now got pictures and memories to never forget the time that youv'e had, when it's time for the company to go back home, the word and the feeling, "Whew!!" come to mind. You are tired, whipped, exhausted and broke. What a great time but it sure feels good when the visitors are gone.

I think that with both the boat and the visitors, they each provide "TWO THRILLING DAYS IN YOUR LIFE!"