Thanksgiving

I had been really sick all week with the flu and the weather hadn't been really great - neither good reasons to attempt a crossing of Georgia Strait on our boat to join the Edmonton gang sailing around Bowen Island....
However Saturday morning was calm and sunny and I was feeling better, so, not for the first time, we dashed around gathering up supplies and food, and hopped on the boat. We had a smooth crossing in about an hour and a half (same as the ferry!) and arrived before sunset for dinner with our friends. We rafted up in a bay on Gambier Island and tucked in for the night. We spent a warm sunny Sunday relaxing and beachcombing then headed home. This weekend made us consider gratitude for many things:

• good weather
• calm seas
• firm anchorages
• old friends
• reminiscing
• baby crabs
• warm blankets

and finally good health... that night we arrived home we had a small Thanksgiving dinner. Michael started to feel unwell and by midnight I had to take him to the hospital for the beginning of a three-day adventure, culminating in emergency gallbladder surgery. But what a great weekend we had to look back on!