FTJ, Entry 34: Happy Turkey Day from the Intracoastal Waterway

We send our love to all our friends and family on this holiday. We really miss all of you!

Since you likely will not read this until after Turkey Day, we will just quickly catch you up on all the doings.

Our stay at Disney was great, but a bit more stressed than we anticipated because of Buddy, who had two episodes of illness during the week. First he had some sort of spinal kink and was in pain so we could not leave him. I fixed him up with an anti inflammatory and a homemade collar that prevented him from bending his backbone too much. But he was so sad -- all so upsetting! No Disney park that day.

Then, when he recovered, he promptly went into an attack of what we can only guess was pancreatitis -- very common in Yorkies. I think it came from our trying to get him to eat dog food. He hates dog food, so perhaps he got sick for spite!  I dosed him with Pepcid, and he recovered the next day.

Sooo, not wanting to leave him too long, we did manage a quick trip to Epcot again. We went on cool rides such as Spaceship Earth and Mission to Mars, and really enjoyed the day, but felt rushed, not wanting to leave our little boy too long at the Best Friends kennel so soon after his illness.

Check out the band, Off Kilter, at the Canadian pavilion. Rock n roll bagpipes!

Beau at Epcot Xmas tree

Ye olde pub in the United Kingdom section

We ended our stay at Disney by finally getting to the 9:45 pm light show at the lakefront beach right near our RV site -- it was so cool, with barges displaying colorful light images of dragons, turtles, gators, etc., set to music. The show ended with a display of American flags in lights. Following that, we saw the fireworks from the Magic Kingdom in the distance, with recorded narration from speakers on the beach. 

I cried, of course. Hey, it was Jiminy Cricket talking about wishing on a star!

From Disney Magic to Dockside Splendor

The next day we left for Melbourne Beach.

We are now on a waterfront site off A1A in Melbourne beach -- right along the intracoastal waterway, with the Atlantic at the other end of the park. Super, super place. We were greeted by a pair of dolphins our first day here, along with pelicans, herons, and ospreys. So much to watch, and yet so calming and relaxing. We spent Thanksgiving morning at the beach, where a dredlocked young boogie boarder put on a show for us.

Later today we will be having our own little Thanksgiving feast at the dock. We'll be thinking of all of you!

Check it out:

Beau fishing off the dock at our site, at sunset.

One of the dolphins that greeted us -- you can just see the fin.

View from our site

One of the three pools, right along the intracoastal.

Buddy at the dock