Thanksgiving

It sure was a fast week docked in Dunedin.  On Saturday of our arrival we rode bikes to the local British Pub and had a great fish & chips basket for lunch.  After that it was just resting from the 24 hour crossing.  Sunday we rode bikes into town and Gary and Christelle met us via the trolley along with a couple more couples.  We had a fun time with lunch and stories.  Monday we rode our bikes to Enterprise, put them in the trunk and drove to Orlando for the holiday.  We had a great time with Abbie spending the three nights in the hotel with us.  Tuesday we went to Wonderworks and Wednesday we went to Universal Studios.  We also went shopping on Tuesday evening for Abbie's traditional birthday and Christmas present combination.  We got her a bicycle.  With all of the activities we did not have an opportunity to get it affixed with training wheels until we went to their house for Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday.  We had a wonderful meal at their house and then said our good-byes to drive back to Dunedin.  Friday was a day of chores before departure, including laundry and grocery shopping.

One of the few non-blurred pictures of Abbie in all of our action
 packed adventures.  Notice the first Noelle in the background.

We untied from Marker 1 Marina just before 9:00 a.m. in order to try to hit slack tide in Indian Rocks Beach where the ICW is narrow and the current is swift.  We pulled into the free dock around 11:00 a.m. and almost immediately hit the pavement to catch a trolley to Wahoo's for lunch.  Heidi met us there and we moved on to Slyce Pizza to watch the games on the outdoor patio.  Just about the time Heidi was heading off, Scott and Lisa met us there.  Scott had taken our trolling motor while in Apalachicola so we wouldn't have to worry about it sliding around and being in our way for crossing and fishing.  When they were ready to leave, they dropped it off at the boat only to get flack from the dock master that we were not to spend the night there.  Ray and I avoided going back to the boat too soon with that news and moved on to Mike's Pizza.
From Mike's Pizza Linda walked to Walmart to pick up a prescription that was called in earlier.  What pharmacy closes at 7:00 p.m.?  Of course arrival time was 7:05 p.m.  Well, that at least gave us an excuse as to why we had to spend the night at the free dock.  Ended up not having to use an excuse as we never encountered anyone.