Day 55 - All is well that ends well...

The day started weird. When Aristeo's boat pulled up to the villa's pier, I threw my wetsuits in without even asking if I'm on it, but - oops - for some reason, I was placed on a different boat from the group I have been diving with over the past week or so. I felt a little annoyed, because a) this particular group is super nice and we all seem to be very compatible in terms of what we like and what we can handle during diving, and b) I prefer Aristeo to Edgar. And to top it all, the boat I should have been on went North! That was unbearable to watch, so I created a little diversion on my actual boat, and after picking up somebody from downtown, we, too, went North.

Actually, as always, every cloud has a silver lining: I ended up having lunch with "my" group anyway, because we were at the surface interval at the same time, and we went to my beloved San Juan for the second dive, instead of the Eagle Ray City with Aristeo.

The highlight of the day was diving with a 15-year old girl, who is absolutely amazing. She handled a pretty stressful current at Barracuda and San Juan with utmost elegance. And all with a camera, too! Witnessing things like this makes me very happy.

The highlight of the night was a http://www.scubaboard.com/ gathering at Wet Wendy's. Their margaritas are spectacular and usually they make a huge frozen margarita "tower" drinks, but today for some reason Claire (the Hungarian girl who owns the bar) decided that they would melt too quickly in this weather, and served ONE drink in TWO glasses - both HUGE. Margaritas we tried: mango + strawberry = yum, mango + pear = yum, avocado = wow!