Sunset over the ocean...ridiculous
After a quick trip to the dive shop. We went back to the hotel to jump in the pool to refresh on using our masks, snorkels, and fins. As we watched the sunset from the beach in front of our hotel, the local kids started playing in the ocean. Here the boys are helping bury one of the locals. Kevin Shapiro was a hit with them because he would flip them off his shoulders and into the water. 
The girls took our sunset pics...Addie, Me, Emily Dennis and Mandy.
Then I caught Joe Turrentine for his debut in the blog
And Chad got his typical surrounded by girls pic...anyways, the water was beautiful and so was the lighting so we went crazy. We headed to another hotel, the Serena and ate our "ball out" meal of the trip. The white table cloths set the mood as I ordered lobster stuffed chicken...AWESOME. And Leah, they had Goats Du Rome, so good!! With a full belly, I quickly gave in to sleep that was full of dreams for our next adventure...SCUBA!!
After a hearty breakfast, a mixed group of Maymester students and our ILA group donned our wet suits and headed for the reef. Here we are (no guy skin on skin action, always good)
The dive boat looked abit scary, but the service was more than we could have hoped for. We went down in 4 small groups of 5. It was so beautiful.
Douglas and Shannon learned to dive in the resort pool yesterday and decided to join us..I was pumped to spread the obsession with even more people.
Me and My dive buddy Joe, who is now in the blog alot. First dive and we're OK!!
Words can't descirbe how beautiful it was down there. There were rolling hills of coral reef and we got to see a shipwreck on our second dive. It was an ironsided boat that had run aground in 1901, the anchor and alot of the pieces still remained. For those of you who are not fish people, I will put this in Nemo terms for you. The Morrish Idol...the yellow and black "bad" fish is everywhere here and their long fin just flows in the water. I watch anemone and clownfish "Nemo" for alot of the time too. We saw moray eels, lionfish, stingrays, angelfish, damselfish, and everything else you can imagine. The mix of brain coarl, antler coral, and even coral that looks like lettuce shows how much life is under the sea, and how much more of the world there is for me to see!!
I am being pushed off the computer...until tomorrow. I miss you all!!! SCUBA Britt (It's not Steve, but it's close)
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