Thanksgiving’s past have always found us thankful to gather with family and friends and share a delicious meal while giving thanks for all the abundance around us. For most American’s it is not only a time to reflect upon our past history when the Pilgrims and Native Americans gathered together peacefully to share in the bounty surrounding them but also a time to give thanks for all our freedoms we are so fortunate to have and often take for granted. When you are cruising to foreign lands, especially third-world countries, you quickly appreciate everything it means to be an American and say thanks to all those who fought to preserve those freedoms
During most of our early years we gathered with my extended family, my mom or my dad’s side of the family or occasionally all together. A couple years we shared Thanksgiving with Walter’s sister, Cindy, at their home in Gig Harbor. While Christa was in college and dating Nash, we spent a couple Thanksgivings up on Cape Cod near Quissett and experienced a huge gathering of extended family and friends complete with Proclamation Reading from the Governor, a long table seating 45+ people, and a square dance/ho-down following the amazing feast! Our last couple of Thanksgiving’s in the Seattle area we were thankful to share with Brad & Ashley & family at Ashley's parents home. No matter where you are, among family or friends it is always a special occasion for heartfelt thankfulness and a counting of our blessings. Our last Thanksgiving was in Oriental, North Carolina with ironically, a British cruising family.
One of our favorite traditions through the years was to hold hands around the table and have each person say what they are most thankful for. Health, happiness, prosperity, love of family, blessing of good friends all ring true of how fortunate we all are.
This will be our second Thanksgiving away from family. Even though we are not together with our family they are in our hearts and we miss them dearly but know we will have visits ahead with good times to share.
We were fortunate here in Grenada that Clark's Court Bay Marina was sponsoring a Thanksgiving Potluck Dinner for the American cruisers, but everyone was welcome. We met up with our friends on Escape Velocity, Marce and Jack (who ironically were sitting a couple tables over from us at Oriental last year but we hadn't met them yet) and shared a table together. The marina supplied the turkey and gravy and did a wonderful job decorating and organizing the many delicious dishes brought by all the cruisers. Lots of traditional dishes and many new dishes to try. One large table was dedicated to desserts alone. The word "abundance" certainly comes to mind. There were well over 50 people gathered and after everyone had all they could eat there was still more food to be shared.
It was so nice to see all the cruisers enjoying themselves and we had a wonderful time sharing Thanksgiving with our good friends Jack and Marce and the abundance that the cruising life offers.
We wish you all a belated but very Happy Thanksgiving!
During most of our early years we gathered with my extended family, my mom or my dad’s side of the family or occasionally all together. A couple years we shared Thanksgiving with Walter’s sister, Cindy, at their home in Gig Harbor. While Christa was in college and dating Nash, we spent a couple Thanksgivings up on Cape Cod near Quissett and experienced a huge gathering of extended family and friends complete with Proclamation Reading from the Governor, a long table seating 45+ people, and a square dance/ho-down following the amazing feast! Our last couple of Thanksgiving’s in the Seattle area we were thankful to share with Brad & Ashley & family at Ashley's parents home. No matter where you are, among family or friends it is always a special occasion for heartfelt thankfulness and a counting of our blessings. Our last Thanksgiving was in Oriental, North Carolina with ironically, a British cruising family.
One of our favorite traditions through the years was to hold hands around the table and have each person say what they are most thankful for. Health, happiness, prosperity, love of family, blessing of good friends all ring true of how fortunate we all are.
This will be our second Thanksgiving away from family. Even though we are not together with our family they are in our hearts and we miss them dearly but know we will have visits ahead with good times to share.
We were fortunate here in Grenada that Clark's Court Bay Marina was sponsoring a Thanksgiving Potluck Dinner for the American cruisers, but everyone was welcome. We met up with our friends on Escape Velocity, Marce and Jack (who ironically were sitting a couple tables over from us at Oriental last year but we hadn't met them yet) and shared a table together. The marina supplied the turkey and gravy and did a wonderful job decorating and organizing the many delicious dishes brought by all the cruisers. Lots of traditional dishes and many new dishes to try. One large table was dedicated to desserts alone. The word "abundance" certainly comes to mind. There were well over 50 people gathered and after everyone had all they could eat there was still more food to be shared.
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| Since we were the last table "called up," we worried there wouldn't be any food left. We were wrong. (Thanks to Marce Schulz for the great photos.) |
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| That's what's known as a full mouth smile. |
It was so nice to see all the cruisers enjoying themselves and we had a wonderful time sharing Thanksgiving with our good friends Jack and Marce and the abundance that the cruising life offers.
We wish you all a belated but very Happy Thanksgiving!
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