Bonaire 2008 - Day 1

6:45a
With a 6:20a departure from Greensboro, we were on the road by 3:45a. A late night packing put us in bed after 1:00a, so sleep deprivation will take it's toll before the day is through. We are on our first flight now and will soon be in Atlanta to meet up with the rest of the group from Diving Enterprises. We are excited to see some friends from our past trips. Ken, Mary, Richard and Dawn will be sharing a 3 bedroom condo with us. We were also pleased to learn that Michael and Colleen French will be on this trip as well! We haven't seen them in 2 years since our last trip to Bonaire. We are starting to descend, so hopefully I can post this from Atlanta while we still have access to the outside world. You never know what kind of internet access you are going to get in Bonaire!

And for the record... Kara has slept more of the trip than not thus far. We'll see how long she can keep that up.

9:00p
The rest of the travel was uneventful. We arrived in Bonaire around 3:00p, which is one hour ahead of Eastern Standard Time. After waiting for the group of 33 to clear customs and baggage claim we picked up our trucks and headed toward the resort. We quickly checked in and ran to the grocery store to pick up snacks and food for breakfast and lunch for when we don't have the time or energy to eat out. Dinners will be our primary meal this week, and we expect to eat out every night.

So tonight for simplicity we had dinner at Sunset Bar and Grill which is located on the Sand Dollar property. It was their Italian theme night. Kara had shrimp and snapper over tortellini, I had chicken carbonara; both were delicious. Tomorrow we will have our dive orientation meeting and checkout dive before lunch, and then the fun begins! Fortunately it looks like we will be able to document the trip along the way this time. It took some effort to get the internet connection working. We rented a usb modem that runs on the local cell service, and of course the standard installtion software failed to work. I had to set up a manual dial-up connection instead of using the fancy software they provided, but at least it works! (And to the GP, I know... "womb".) So, stay tuned for more updates, and hopefully some photos soon!