February 13-17
Monday brought another day of diving under the cloudiest skies we’ve seen since being here this time. Our dive group was large (for our boat) and included a family from Sweden, an older gentleman from Denmark, and another man from Great Britain. Quite an international group today and since everyone spoke excellent English, we had a great time finding out a little more about them all.

Wind and clouds can make diving a little less spectacular, but still with visibility being over a hundred feet, we really can’t complain. We visited the spectacular coral canyons of Esmeralda again today with the surface interval just inside the reef at a great spot with shallow water coral and sea life which made for good snorkeling between dives.

Valentine’s Day (Tuesday) was warm and bright and beautiful. We spent some time that morning kayaking in incredibly blue and amazingly calm water. We had a double date planned for that night. The sports bar was having a special valentines meal- filet and shrimp. We arrived early and we weren’t sorry – it was really delicious.

It was not to be a quiet night since I awoke shortly after midnight with a stomach virus. The next day and a half were lost to me as I recovered.

Thursday evening John and Susan’s container finally made its appearance. The first load didn’t arrive to the house until after 9 p.m. Seven strong (non-English speaking) men spent the better part of the next 3 hours brings boxes, furniture, appliances and anything else you can think of into the new building on the property. The bottom floor will be a pool house and the top floor will be an apartment to rent. I finally made it to sleep around 2 am. It was actually a pretty fun evening, exciting anyway.

Friday was spent putting things together and unpacki g boxes, not an unwelcome change to our normal routine here.

Tomorrow will bring another dive! We had to cancel our dive Wednesday because I was sick, so I’m ready to get back into the water