Sixth Wedding Anniversary

It was up anchor early this morning on our sixth wedding anniversary (it is also Eileen's birthday, Happy Birthday to You!) as we begin the crossing of the Bahama Banks. We're about 15 miles across as I write this with about 60 left to go. At the 4-5 knots we're making, we will either anchor out on the Banks tonight (anchoring out in the middle of the ocean would be interesting) or we'll sail overnight (and we are sailing, yipee!). We'll probably decide which option later on once we see how tired we are and how rolly the ocean is (if it's rolly we probably won't sleep anyhow). As novel as it would be to anchor out on the Banks, I'd like to try another overnighter to see how we like it.

Anniversaries are always good for reminiscing and a trip down memory lane. We've had six great years together, the best and busiest of our lives. Each anniversary has been spent in a special place:

1st Anniversary - Paris
2nd Anniversary - Paris
3rd Anniversary - ? (Oh, noooo! Can't remember! This is why we need to journal / blog, we forget these things!)
4th Anniversary - Nice (I said I wanted to go some place warm for our anniversary so we went to Nice, where it was cold!)
5th Anniversary - Chester (Fawlty Towers)
6th Anniversary - Crossing the Bahama Banks

And this is a great place to spend one's anniversary! It's just the two of us and miles of open ocean! We've been fishing this morning (is that a legitimate anniversary activity?) and caught two fish so far, one very tiny one and a rather large barracuda - both returned to their natural habitat rather than our freezer. I'd like to do a special dinner tonight but suspect due to being underway, we'll be on quick to heat up leftovers. Oh, well, we'll just have to continue the anniversary into tomorrow!

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