Bonaire - 9/11/05
Today's underwater pictures are right here
The slow season continues, as we are preparing for our 2pm boat dive. Today was mostly just relaxing, peaked with a moment of uh... almost pissing ourselves :-). Wes' water glass spontaneously exploded, glass and water everywhere. Now I know that my reflexes are not those of James Bond, because I didn't immediately dive under the table in fear that a sniper with a silencer was taking aim. Although I was rather tempted to raise a sign saying "We are really CANADIANS." :-).
It is indeed strange being here on the anniversary of 9/11, since we were actually HERE on 9/11 itself. You can see what happened that day if you are interested at this handy link. Today, on the other hand, our biggest fear was avoiding the "disaster family" who is on our 2pm boat.
As it was, the disaster family stayed away from us, the dive was beautiful, and you can see the pictures on the portal page at Cyberdive.org
After a fabulous dinner at Lion's Den (I had the shrimp and lobster combo) we went off to attempt to collect the Luv Monkeys at the airport. I say attempt because when we arrived, we hung out and hung out and hung out, until a nice taxi driver told us that the flight had not left San Juan yet. When we went back to the hotel to check the information on the Internet, we found that the flight is SCHEDULED to leave at 10 pm, which would get it into Bonaire around 12:13 am. This means that the Luv Monkeys sat in the airport in San Juan from approximately 11 am until 10 pm. American Eagle SUCKS. Just plain SUCKS. *sigh*