RELIEF

Wow: What a relief. I'm so glad that's over. Most of it was a lot of fun but the book work was a killer.

The pictures I've included today are from Fidi's beach restaurant with world class chef "Mario". We ate there a few nights ago. He only serves about 4 or 5 items - all fish. Its pretty good but no not close to "world class". His soup was great however. I have no idea what it was other than some sort of "fish soup". We ate at the table next to the sign. The tide was up and the chair nearest the ocean was in fact sitting in a little water. No one sat there of course. It also slopes backward and is virtually useless. I guess you could dig the front legs into the sand to level things off. Anyway is was a fun little diversion. The building is the place where the food is prepared. Its most an empty shell with a small counter to pay and a little Honduran home kitchen.

Thursday was a day off and I got a bunch of running around done again. More laundry of course, gathering up all the books and materials I accumulated during the class. I can't figure out how I'm going to get all that stuff home.

I went to take the pictures shown today and stopped at a tiny little store and ended up talking to the locals for a fairly long time. Some of the people are just so darn nice you feel rude when you try to leave. We mostly talked about the weather here and some of the places they have visited. Its been really hot for a couple of days around here. One of them said its a bad sign. He said that the lack of breeze means a hurricane would not be pushed away if one formed nearby. Normally the wind pushed them north and away from the Island according to him. I certainly none form down this way.

Four of us went out and had a nice long lunch. Most of us a pretty bored with the food around here and we are all looking forward to some "real" home cooked food. I've eaten more chocolate cake than anyone can imagine.

I went for a night dive last night. Me and another newly certified instructor were actually asked to act as Divemasters becuase one of the staff was sick. We had fun doing it but its a little scary trying to track people at night. It got a little confusing when another group crossed our path. There were lights going every which way but no one got mixed up. We saw an spotted eel and a large size octopus that just stayed around. They usually hide quickly when lights shine on them but this one was feeding we think and wasn't really bothered by us. I'd guess it was about 2 feet across. It stayed pale blue most of the time but it was switching colors as it moved along.

We ate at the attached restaurant and then went back to the apartment and drank beer and talked till we all just gave out for the night.