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December 24 8:30 AM  We got onto the boat, tucked our purchases downstairs (I forgot the eggs at Don and Terri’s WHOOPS!) and pulled up our anchors.  We pulled back up to the town docks to disassemble the Portabote and to purchase some ice.  By 9:15 we were all set, and we cast off - our destination for the day was Mile Hammock, an anchorage on the ICW in the midst of Camp LeJeune.  We had a very peaceful, very pretty trip to this anchorage. We made one little wrong turn coming out of Morehead City, taking the wrong channel (which we discovered pretty quickly when we encountered the sandbar LOL) and had to turn back to go back around to the proper channel. We saw dolphins along the way, a white crane and quite a few other boats.  We were expecting that when we pulled into Mile Hammock Bay we’d have other boats there as well, but when we turned in at about 4PM, we were the only boat there.  The anchorage was really pretty (and nice and deep).  We set our anchor and I dug into our provisions to cook us up a nice Christmas Eve dinner of Burbon steak tips, twice baked potatoes and baked beans with cheese and garlic biscuits followed by fresh baked cookies.  We opened a nice bottle of wine we’d purchased in Beaufort and settled in for a quiet and relaxing evening.  We watched a movie, and after it was done decided we’d give the salon berth a try since we were all snuggled up from having watched the movie.  We’ve decided that if we were to sleep there moving forward, we’ll definitely have to acquire a foam topper.  That berth is a wee bit uncomfortable since the cushions are pretty thin.  Of course too, after two nights in the supreme comfort of the guest bed at Don and Terri’s too, it might not have been a fair comparison…