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Hello from sunny (partly cloudy, with an occasional quick shower) Bonaire!
We drove to Houston from Dallas, then flew out from there because it was significantly less cost. Of course, our flight was at 11:30 pm with an arrival at 5:30 am (though we got in about half an hour early). We sat in front of an emergency exit, so our seats didn't recline. Needless to say, finding a comfortable position to sleep in was an adventure all by itself.
Hint: Your tray table doubles as a pillow rest, provided you stick a great big purse underneath the itty bitty airline pillow. And I could lean over to the other trays because I was sitting in the middle. So I got a couple hours sleep in all, but hubby got about twenty minutes. But he was good to dive later this morning.
We got all our stuff up to our rental house. The owner of the house (or someone who worked for him, not sure) met us at the airport and drove us to the house. It's a nice house, too. It doesn't have central air (the FIRST thing I noticed when I walked in!) but all three bedrooms have powerful wall-mounted air conditioners. After a few hours of running them, the house cooled down quite nicely.
We did our checkout dive after about three hours more sleep this morning. For once, I actually had the correct amount of weights on my first try! (This is big stuff, too--there's nothing more annoying than wrestling into all your gear, humphing down the dock, and giant striding into the water, only to discover you can't descend.)
After the first dive, we came home and had sandwiches for lunch. One thing we did that I'm glad we did was bring frozen meat in our luggage in a couple of those freezer bags you can get at Sams. Plenty of lunchmeat, plus some of those yummy chicken and apple sausages Sams sells. Then we took another nice long nap.
Woke up at four and went for another dive at a site only a short drive away. Almost all the diving here is shore diving. Basically, you pick up your day's tanks at the dive shop, then just go wherever around the lee side of the island. The dive sites are marked with yellow rocks with the name of the site (which explained the yellow rock we passed that said "Cliff," where there was no cliff in sight, so I was a little confused until our orientation).
Had dinner at a really good restaurant called Bobbejan's. The barbeque ribs are OUTSTANDING. Then we stopped at an ice cream parlor.
Will try to take some pictures tomorrow; not sure when I'll be able to upload them. Hubby brought his Mac, and I'm hopelessly lost how to work the thing.
And now it's time to go sleep like the dead.
Hope everyone has a fantastic Memorial Day.
We drove to Houston from Dallas, then flew out from there because it was significantly less cost. Of course, our flight was at 11:30 pm with an arrival at 5:30 am (though we got in about half an hour early). We sat in front of an emergency exit, so our seats didn't recline. Needless to say, finding a comfortable position to sleep in was an adventure all by itself.
Hint: Your tray table doubles as a pillow rest, provided you stick a great big purse underneath the itty bitty airline pillow. And I could lean over to the other trays because I was sitting in the middle. So I got a couple hours sleep in all, but hubby got about twenty minutes. But he was good to dive later this morning.
We got all our stuff up to our rental house. The owner of the house (or someone who worked for him, not sure) met us at the airport and drove us to the house. It's a nice house, too. It doesn't have central air (the FIRST thing I noticed when I walked in!) but all three bedrooms have powerful wall-mounted air conditioners. After a few hours of running them, the house cooled down quite nicely.
We did our checkout dive after about three hours more sleep this morning. For once, I actually had the correct amount of weights on my first try! (This is big stuff, too--there's nothing more annoying than wrestling into all your gear, humphing down the dock, and giant striding into the water, only to discover you can't descend.)
After the first dive, we came home and had sandwiches for lunch. One thing we did that I'm glad we did was bring frozen meat in our luggage in a couple of those freezer bags you can get at Sams. Plenty of lunchmeat, plus some of those yummy chicken and apple sausages Sams sells. Then we took another nice long nap.
Woke up at four and went for another dive at a site only a short drive away. Almost all the diving here is shore diving. Basically, you pick up your day's tanks at the dive shop, then just go wherever around the lee side of the island. The dive sites are marked with yellow rocks with the name of the site (which explained the yellow rock we passed that said "Cliff," where there was no cliff in sight, so I was a little confused until our orientation).
Had dinner at a really good restaurant called Bobbejan's. The barbeque ribs are OUTSTANDING. Then we stopped at an ice cream parlor.
Will try to take some pictures tomorrow; not sure when I'll be able to upload them. Hubby brought his Mac, and I'm hopelessly lost how to work the thing.
And now it's time to go sleep like the dead.
Hope everyone has a fantastic Memorial Day.