Settling in nicely...

We've had a nice first week filled with lots of activities. On Tues, my dad, Rian and I chartered a dive boat with our friend Stu and spent the afternoon diving. Did 1 deep dive (100 ft), 1 shallow dive (40-50 ft) and right after sunset, dove in for a night dive. Rian and I have done 3 dives in one day before but never all 3 in an afternoon! Needless to say, we were all pretty tired by the end of that day! All 3 dives were great but the highlight was the huge, free-swimming Green Moray Eel we saw on the 2nd dive. Very cool!

On Wed, we took a catamaran out to Stingray Sandbar for a 30 min encounter with the Stingray and then over to Rum Point, where we spent a couple hours relaxing on the beach. Rian and I have done the Stingray trip several times but didn't know they offered one with a stop at Rum Point. A neat way to do it when we have guests who have never seen either as Rum Point is about an hour and 1/2 drive around the island. Much more pleasant when you have the option of sipping a drink and sailing rather than worrying about which side of the road to drive on (left, down here!).

Thursday we spent the morning having coffee and visiting on the patio and then loaded up our snorkel stuff and went into Georgetown. Swam out at Eden Rock and snorkeled around. A great snorkel spot but when you are a diver, all you really want to do is dive down and swim around...not be confined to the surface! We had a fabulous dinner at The Wharf for our final night with my folks. Even better, Dad treated! A great way to end a nice week with the family...

A little bit of bad news however, our friends from Buffalo (who were supposed to be arriving here in 1 hour) never got out of Buffalo this morning due to the 2+ feet of snow they got yesterday/last night. Arrrghhhhhh. We got a call at 6:30am this morning saying their flight was cancelled and it doesn't look good for them to get out until Wed. Our next batch of company comes in on the 19th so hopefully they can get out on Wed or Thurs and still make it down for a week...Good ol' Buffalo...