Good morning - a beautiful sky to greet your sleepy eyes this Monday morning.

Go Satchmo!

Good afternoon Rusty,
we're not getting a christmas tree yet. I think we'll get one next week (when Sinterklaas has left the country ).

Bon Dia all. Back to NH tonight. It's been a fun trip, it's going to suck to go back to work tommorow. I'd rather be going to Bonaire like some other people that I hate.

Hi Maragrite!
U lucky...
At what time are u leaving?

Good Morning, Igor, Rusty and my other Bonaire-Loving Friends. Tomarrow is our day. We've much to do and won't get to chat. How will you know it is us at the gate, and on the reef cam? We're almost always on our way to or from a dive, so I will probably be in the same swim attire I have on in my profile. Or in my new very hot pink and black skins .I ordered the same for Jimmy, but in royal.Came in same pink!!! Jimmy not a happy camper but a good sport and will probably wear it.
Soooooo, two flamingo pink matchie poo dive skins will be us. Additionally, I am packing my magic wand(courtesy of Ariel Goblinfrost) and will use my powers to transport you all to the Magical Island. Hope it functions better than my gif posting powers. margarite

I just poped in to say

Margarite, Have a great trip. We shall be watching for you. Annie B.

I didn't pope, I popped. LOL

Margarite,
does this mean I've 2 be ready anytime 2 be beamed 2 Bonaire? I wonder how my boss will react when I appear in diving-gear 4 work
But it would be worth the trouble!

Igor we leave early morning and will get to Flamingo Airport at8:45 pm. We are staying at Divers Paradise Apts. so will visit the street cam often. We are going for our AOW...wish us luck. Also I'm considering a windsurfing lesson . Will meet Merci and Annie P. maybe. We are going to make time to see the Hot Shots at Lac Bay. They will be warmng up for the King of the Carribbean. OH MY GOSH!!!!TOO MUCH JOY!! TOO MUCH EXCITEMENT!!

Be ready to go Igor.....who knows?

Okay Margarite. I'll prepare my colleagues 4 a sudden disappearance!
Have a good trip and come wave at us a lot! We will look out 4 2 flamingo-divers.
Good luck on the AOW and if u're going 4 a windsurfing lesson: keep your eyes on the board and the water, don't peek at the Sorobon-beach all the time

Igor, you know me even better than I thought.

Thanks to everyone for sharing in this happy day. I will raise a glass of cheer and toast you all at the sunsets. Good to know there are others out there who understand my insanity. I will lurk today.....chat later. But just so I don't miss anyone...Have a terrific Sinterclaas Day!! Hope you get lots of presents and goodies and no spankings(unless ,of course, that's what you would like )

Sheesh!!! look at all those upload errors Should of quit while I was ahead. Oh, well, you get the idea., thanks for the well wishes. When I wave my magic wand, you will be the first to be beamed to Bon.

Here's how it works.....every day around sunset(aka Wogga Hour), you consume vast quantities of wogga; then stare at the monitor with great intensity and squint your eyes. I shall wave my magic wand, and POOF! you will"be" with me on the island. So glad you all will be joining me after all.

Thanks Margarite, I shall be waiting. Got me bags packed, ready to be zapped.

Rats!

Gotta zap off to work soon, so I'll catcha later.

Igor, you will be second,since you are ready to go.

Gotta make like a banana and split. Be back later. I hope these flippin' bananas work.

Margarita - me! Me! I wanna get zapped, too, please!



Hi Annie! Bye, Annie! Hi Igor - I'll be right behind you when you land on Bonaire!

Igor, what about the kicking? Can't we pretend to kick each other for Sinterklass Day?

U only get spanked or put in the bag of Sinterklaas & Zwarte Piet (he will take u with him when he's returning 2 Spain) if u've been behaving bad. U haven't been doing that, now have u Rusty?
Don't try 2 fool Sinterklaas 'cause he has all the inside information in his Great Book!

Couldn't leave w/out you. ,you're next in line...........

Igor,

Sinterklaas I'm bad, I'm bad, take me to Spain!! 15 cm of snow overnight, another 15 expected tonight and temperatures going to -21C. I'll go anywhere!! Got to transport my wee brain to Bonaire Ommmmm

margarite, How will we tell you apart? ;-)

Cheers,

Bill

Hi Bill,
sounds like real Christmas-weather! Spain could be nice! I don't know if Sinterklaas takes bribes and if he travels 2 Canada though....

Margarite, if u keep this up u'll have 2 warn the flamingo's on Bonaire 4 low-flying BT'rs in dive-gear. There will be a whole flock of them over Bonaire in no time

Good aftenoon all!!
found some lucky tourists that yearn to be on the cam..

James and Margarite! have a great trip..! My first day back at work in an hour! Only 6months to go till next trip...uhhhhh PBD already!
Not gonna be many brain cells firing tonight at work....hope there is not alot of sick people in the emergency room tonight!

Diving diving!

Hi Meryl,
just hang in there. I'm just home from my first day and I did survive! So there's hope

Rusty,
I'm nicking all your captures and posting them 2 the webcam-thread, that way it looks as if I'm paying much attention

mornin' all, meryl, welcome back to the nut house...i was telling micheal and the kids about Sinterklauss...check this out...

Name: Nicholas of Myra (also known as Nicholas of Bari)

Popular Names: Sinterklaas and Santa Claus

Marital Status: single

Year of Birth: 271 A.D.

Birth Place: Patara, Turkey (a port town)

Domicile: Spain

Profession: miracle-worker and protector of children, sailors, unmarried girls, merchants and those wrongly accused of crimes...protector of unmarried girls???

Date of Death : December 6th, 342 or 343 A.D.

Burial spot: Myra, in the southwest of present-day Turkey

Feast Day: December 6th (but traditionally celebrated on the eve: December 5th)

ok, protector of unmarried girls...funny...and he is dead, but the legand live on!

for more, go here...
http://www.minbuza.nl/default.asp?CMS_ITEM=MBZ302885

Bluetang u may never say that!
He's not dead! He's in the Netherlands now! He arrived in his Big Steam Ship 'Pakjesboot 12' in Zaltbommel on saturday 16 nov.

Wow, look what I saw flying over Bonaire...

You iz kwazy kids! Iz this anybody we know? (Who is that behind those Foster Grants?)



Hey, Igor:

igor, that's funny. I thought it was pretty cruel to post the date of sinterklauss' death!

Maybe he's an imposter, Cynde. Strange that bad kids in Holland go to Spain. Where do bad American kids go? Bill, where do bad Canadian kids go?

I caught Charlotte and Satchmo earlier - but not *together*. I think he's too homely for her.

Rusty, LOL!!! But that's Santa and not Sinterklaas, I met him in person last saterday, he's alive and kicking!!!

Oh sure, Martin, ours croaked but yours is alive and *kicking*? Maybe Sinterklass does the USA in his spare time at the end of the month? (My Dad sent me that photo - it was called How To Save Money This Christmas!)

Uh-oh! Blikje is going to SPAIN this year! Bad dog! LOL

Caught another street cam visitor:



Are we up for another thread?

rusty, i guess hell can freeze over! that one is great! i still believe in santa clause...i believe, i believe, i believe...

it always cracks me up to see blijke jump the fence

hey, it's dr. doolittle!

So it was probably Mikey that I posted at 3:31?

i would say the resemblence is remarkable!!!

going to be tough to see him come out though with the south cam the way it is...

i think this must be them coming back by...hey, anyone heard from woodie?

Cynde Check out the other THREAD

James & Margarite, Have a wonderful trip!! Please take lots of pictures to share with those of us stuck anywhere in the world but BONAIRE. Pictures keep us going until the next real visit.
Be safe, Debbie