Fish!

 Here are some photos of the some fish that we saw while under water.....

Cowfish! So cute!

French angelfish 

Parrotfish

OWSD! (Open water scuba diving)

After getting some good sleep and a lesson about the Bonaire waters, we got our equipment and learned how to do a buddy check. Our teacher was a Dutch man who had moved to Bonaire 3 years ago. His name was Job (pronounced Joep), and he was really fun. 

Our very first dive was amazing! We saw two turtles and an eel!

Doing a buddy check

First time in the water!!

Belmare Diving

2:30 Bonaire time, and 8:30 to us, no matter....lets go swimming! The hotel was amazing. The room was 2 floors, had a nice kitchen, large living room, 3 bedrooms (sleeping 6), and a great deck where we ate all of our meals. The grounds were great too. There was a pool less than 5m away from the cliff to the ocean. And there were 2 docks that we could jump off of into the crystal clear water. 

Our amazing hotel called Belmare. We had the room on the second floor between the 2 big palm trees. 

Posing with the iguana! 

Amazing view from the room!

Off to Bonaire.....

Or should I call it Paradise? 

Anyway.....on Monday the 18th of April we woke up at 4 and left the house at 5am! Pretty early. 

The plane ride was 9 hours to Aruba, then we had a 1 hour layover, then another hour to Curacao, where we got off and nearly missed our connection - to Bonaire! The Bonaire plane was TINY! There were less than 15 seats - no flight attendants and no oxygen masks in case of an emergency! It was so cool!

Tiny Bonaire island hopper 

Massive KLM 747

We spent the rest of the evening in PARADISE! 

Happy Birthday DTH3

If you're wondering, DTH3 stands for Dutch Treat Hash House Harriers. And this hash was our 5 year anniversary. So Ashlynn and I made cakes! Because if it's your birthday you always need cake as well as all the junk food you end up eating. We made chocolate chip cookie cakes! Yummy!

Here are the cakes. The top one was meant to be a windmill and the bottom one reads 'Happy 5th DTH3'

David and Andrew came around for the party and in this photo you can see Ashlynn blowing out the tea light candle that I put on one of the cakes. 

Easter Hash

The day before we left for Bonaire, we held an Easter Hash at our house. Ashlynn and I laid the trail in the morning, and I cycled during the hash and hid chocolate easter eggs for the kids to find. 

The hash ended at our house, where we ate chocolate, made a fire and dyed eggs for Easter. 

Dying eggs 

Most of the girls dyed eggs,

while the guys sat and played with the fire!

Green Day Activities

If you're going to run a Green Day, you just have to have activities to go along with it....

Plant a Sunflower in a recycled plastic bottle

Organic Food tasting. Compare fair trade products to non fair trade products

Recycle!
Throw the correct objects into the correct bins to win sweets!