Day 401, Year 1: Giving Thanks
Date: Thursday, November 23, 2006
Weather: Glorious Day
Location: Opua, New Zealand
What a glorious day! The sun shone brightly, there was almost no wind, and the temperature was warm. The “almost no wind” is only good if you are in port, so it was great today. It was bathing suit weather and I took advantage of it. First thing this morning, we took the boat into the dock to fill up with fuel and water, and to empty the holding tank. I used the water on the dock to do a little cleaning on deck and to fill buckets of water to do more cleaning when we returned to the mooring. Once we returned to the mooring, Mark change the oil and the oil and fuel filters and I spent the day at various cleaning projects and it was the perfect day for that.
We have wireless internet here in the anchorage and I made a couple of calls via Skype today. I called my sister Patsy who is in Ohio for Thankgiving. Her daughter Janet lives near Columbus and just last week moved into a new home that she had built. Congratulations, Janet! We know she is thankful to be in her new home for the holidays. We then called our daughter Heather who is in Washington, DC, for the holiday weekend visiting with Jed’s parents, Marti and Donald. We talked with Donald and with Heather. I love the fact that Skype on the computer allows to you to talk with people, basically free of charge. It is one of those little things that cruisers are really thankful for.
Tonight’s Thanksgiving Dinner at the Cruising Club was wonderful. As always with a Thanksgiving dinner, there was way too much food, but it was greatly appreciated that we even had a Thanksgiving dinner here in New Zealand. I baked a pumpkin pie for dessert, so even though I didn’t cook an entire dinner, I did at least contribute.
We are so very grateful for so many things and to so many people that I would hesitate to start listing those things here. But I do want to thank those of you have who been tracking our adventure for the past year. We love having your company. Thank you for staying with us.
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