Thanksgiving Cruise

Since we no longer have any family memebers in Florida, Kevin and I decided to do something a little different. We set sail Thanksgiving Day for a lovely 4 day cruise and will meet up with Charlie, Pavie and yes Pringle from "Trevier". We both left our ports thursday morning and headed for Cocoa Village to anchor and raft up on the SW side of the 520 causeway. I was doing some cooking while we were under way. I learned a lesson today, never make a pie while underway. I had a pumkin pie in the oven and a nice big sport fisherman boat came by with a nice 3 foot wake and about half of the pie filling slid out of the pie, luckly I had an alluminum foil sheet under the pie. When the filling slid out it also took half the pie crust with it, so it was a very lopsided pie. We all arrived and anchored around noon then started preparing dinner. Kevin smoked a turkey and we had a traditional dinner for Pavie, who is from Sweden and never had thanksgiving.
Friday morning Charlie was up earling and I went out to say good morning to him, he told me about his little visitor last night. About 2:00 am Pringle started barking and Charlie went out on deck to see what was going on, as he entered the cockpit, he heard a splash in the water (thought it was a fish). He then walked around the deck to see if there was anyone or anything to make Pringle bark, nothing. When he got back into the cockpit, he notice a nose and two tiny paws coming up from the dinghy on the the back rail, it was a raccoon. He then proceeded chasing it for about 20 minutes, until it swam off. Who would thing a raccoon would swim out to a boat. We spent a good part of the day walking around Cocoa Village and Pavie was very fasinated with "Travis Hardware Store", it is a very old hardware store that you can spend hours in. Everyone says if you can't find it anywhere else go to Travis. Saturday evening consisted of cocktails and turkey quesadilla's for dinner.
Saturday whe went back into the village for a few supplies then sailed down to Pineda causeway and anchored in the NE corner, since the winds were supposed to pickup and shift. We had a lovely pork roast dinner on Trevier and several bottles of wine.
Sunday morning we were woke to the sound of our anchor alarm, while still rafted. I ran over to Charlies boat and Kevin started the engine, we had drug into the shallows as far as the boats would go. I was at helm and Kevin and Charlie were maning the anchors. In a 25-30 knot wind I managed to manouver both boats, still rafted back up into deeper water to re-set the anchor. We put both ours and Charlies anchors down together and they both set. We all took our time getting up and moving since most of us where hung over. We all headed home around 1300.