April 15-30, 2003 -- Bonaire

On Tuesday, April 15, Precocious Gale arrived. We helped them tie up to their mooring which was right next to ours, and then let them get some rest. In the afternoon, I snorkeled over to their boat. Ashley joined me, and we snorkeled around. We saw many fish, a snake and an eel. That evening, we went to dinner with Precocious Gale at Casa Blanca. On Wednesday, April 16, we started working on our list again. That evening, it was time for me to cook again. We had Ashley from Blind Date over for dinner. Since we had done so well on Wednesday, we continued on our trend of working on the boat, and finally treated ourselves to ribs on Friday where we joined Blind Date, Galadrial, Natural Selection and Precocious Gale for a fun evening. We opted to take the weekend off and concluded it by going back for more ribs on Sunday with Precocious Gale. Actually, I started reading for my diving class that was starting shortly. On Tuesday, April 22, I started my diving class. And on Wednesday afternoon I was a PADI certified open water diver. We spent the rest of the week working on the boat again, before breaking Sunday evening to go for pizza with Blind Date, Precocious Gale, Galadrial, and Natural Selection. On Wednesday, April 30, the whole gang (see the list for pizza) piled into the back of Ton and Renota's (These are friends of ours that run a restaurant in town that serves the best hamburgers this side of the States) truck and went to Rincon Day. It is a celebration of the Queen's birthday and the founding of the oldest town on Bonaire, Rincon. It was interesting to see some of the old ways of dressing on the island, and to taste some of the local cuisine. Over all it was a fun day, through everyone got bored quickly.