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A Cruisers Thanksgiving
22 November 2012 | Elizabeth City, NC
Donna
This was the first Thanksgiving ever that we have not spent with our family. We weren’t sure what to expect or what we were going to do. There are a couple of well known towns on the ICW that host big Thanksgiving celebrations for cruisers but there was no way we were going to get that far south in time. We decided to be in Elizabeth City, NC for Thanksgiving. Bill had hoped that we would find some other cruisers to have dinner with and if nothing else then we would have Thanksgiving dinner at the restaurant we found. It was looking more and more like we would be going to that restaurant buffet.
Then a couple of more boats came in and they told us they were planning a pot luck dinner. We were planning to be at the marina across the river for Thanksgiving but we changed our plans and were able to finish the work we had to do in just one day. Things went well with our project and we were able to return to the same slip we left the day before.
Everyone had assignments of some Thanksgiving food to make and if the weather was good enough we were going to eat at the tables the city had on the waterfront. The other option was to use our boat – we have a table that opens up big enough to seat 8. It was pretty windy and we all decided to eat inside on our boat. We started with 9 people including a British man who was celebrating his first Thanksgiving. We had all the traditional food and it was all delicious. Then when we were just starting to eat another boat came in to the slip next to us. Some of the guys went and helped them dock and invited them to come join us. So we ended up with 11 people for dinner. It was an interesting group of people, all of which we will probably see again and again as we all head south looking for warmer weather.
The picture doesn’t do the experience justice. Bill didn’t get the food and he missed a couple of people. The picture makes it look like it was all about wine – but really we had a well balanced, complete dinner.
It was certainly an interesting Thanksgiving. We finished the evening by using Facetime to talk to our family at our daughters’ house. She took over my job of making Thanksgiving dinner. It means a lot to me that she is there for the family. It was great to see everyone even if it was just by computer.