Happy Thanksgiving!

Fear not, my American friends, we are not sadly mistaken because it is Canadian Thanksgiving today, a month before the local version. We almost forgot, surprising because back in Cambridge we used to celebrate each year with a big dinner for our Canadian friends.

Here we were lucky enough to be meeting up with friends from Ontario, Ken and Grace, who were in town for the boatshow, and they mentioned it was the holiday. So we invited them aboard yesterday for dinner, they brought a couple of cooked chickens, we prepared the vegetables and had a really lovely evening. The pumpkin pie wasn't cooked in time, but we'll enjoy that tonight instead. It was a beautiful night in this anchorage, near Annapolis - not a breath of wind, mild and a full moon. Lovely.

From here, my parent's arrive tomorrow and we'll spend another day in Annapolis before we head off across Chesapeake Bay to explore the more rural East side of the bay, which is supposed to be beautiful. We'll probably take them up to Baltimore by the end of their stay so they can get easy transport to New York for the second part of their trip to the USA. Right now we're tidying the boat, preparing the shopping list and picking up a hire car in the morning because this is America, so there is no easy public transport from the airport to here.

We're looking forward to their visit and getting back out on the water again after a week here in port.