2 AM Intruder

We are in Vero Beach Florida. Beautiful country and great marina. We are on a mooring ball rafted to two other catamarans. There is a nice restaurant with happy hour, live music and happy patrons within earshot. Not a problem for us because we seem to be very tired and dead to the world at the end of the day. Surprisingly enough, however, Anne heard a loud thump in the main cabin at 2 AM on Saturday morning. Still partly asleep, she assumed it was Steve up an around but when she yelled his name he answered right next to her. He had been sound asleep but was now also wide awake. He had not heard a thing but decided to go take a look in case something had hit the boat. Part way up into the cabin he was confronted by the intruder. Calling for help to Anne sent the four legged bandit zooming around the cabin and down into the other hull. Once all had calmed down, the meowing began. We had a cat onboard! Seems one of the boats we are rafted to has a big boat cat that jumped through one of our open hatches. It took us a while to coax Kitty out of the cabin and once outside, he made a beeline for the bow and jumped boat to boat to get back home. Steve and Anne, on the other hand, spent the next hour trying to calm down and go back to sleep. We had no choice but to sleep in the next morning.