Culture shock sets in. While visiting the empty slip yesterday we met Mike who lives on his Tayana at the end of our new dock. Sadly, he was wearing a Chicago Bears sweatshirt. When we said we were from Wisconsin (Green Bay Packer country) he winced and hesitantly asked if we wore cheeseheads. Kristine told him she despised those monstrosities and he sighed in relief. We may have found a new friend however because he mentioned that we needed to know an important fact. It is illegal in this Kentucky dry county to sport a wine glass in public... even if you are on AURORA's deck in her slip! (a healthy $140 fine makes that glass of wine pretty darn expensive) He said however that a red plastic cup is legal regardless of what is in it. The local Dollar General sells them by the hundreds and now, I am set for at least a decade. One needs to embrace newness, but that doesn't mean I must forego my personal hatred of drinking out of a plastic anything. I sense a visit to a local pottery person who can make me a personal red cup clone out of a nicely glazed non-plastic material. Or I can spend a great deal of time inside the main salon looking outside the windows while the rest of you lounge on AURORA's decks sporting red plastic cups. Culture shock... it's not for wimps.
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