Hohoho, gooooood morning buddies.

I got a superb book about freshwaterfishes from Santa. You know, such book about their colours, living space, scientific names etc.
And one book about diving spots in Indonesia.
(I already have one about Bonaire )

How about you?

Merry XMas,
Ilona

good morning Ilona.
Just checking in briefly, gotta visit the family of course.
And, wait and see for the 'books to come'

have a merry Xmas....

Merry Xmas All!
I haven't left work yet, but I think I just got coal in my stocking this year. We'll see when I get home.

early tail

uh, new sign

Good morning, and Merry Christmas.


Good coffee w/amaretto this morning. Ham and bacon and buttermilk biscuits, scrambed eggs with cheese, grape jam and cantelope to follow.

Merry Christmas from Joan & Alan



We are really wearing the hats underwater

Cute, Joan and Alan.

Some early visitors in their pj's at the bongo's cam...

Good Morning and Merry Christmas everyone!

Joel and I are off for the day! I wish you all a wonderful day with your families.

I sent out pics by email, if you did not get them please email me if you would like to get them and I can send them later to you! Quinn had fun with the paper and boxes this morning.

Merry Christmas!

This is Seb and Mary. Morning Eileen!


I was cooking but my hubby called me to see.

and one more
Looks like they have santa in a bag, lol.

GOOD MORNING AND MERRRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

Merry Christmas!

Hi Kathy,
Seb and Mare are still dry this morning; we haven't gotten into the water yet. I don't know who those folks are but Merry Christmas to them too.

Soon we will be under the water, soon.

Good Morning BTer's and Merry Christmas to all.. Looks like another good day on Bonaire wish we were there. Jone and Alan great pic of you guy's really is Christmasy!! 9d in Indiana and our festivities start in 2 hours. Got alot of work to do this morning I'm cooking Prime Rib on the grill for dinner and I had better get going!! I hope Santa left everyone what they wanted. My wife knows what I want she just doesn't know how to wrap it!! :-) Have a good day......... Ron

Good Morning All It is warmer here it is 24 degrees F.

Can't quite make out the names.
Sorry for the mis-ID Mare! lol

Christmas is finally here! My mom and dad came on Thursday and been really busy, haven't been able to cam since. Going to my son's for Christmas dinner. Hope everyone got lots of presents.

It is 25F here and cold! Going down to 17F as day goes on. Warm spell is gone forever now.

Enjoy your holidays with family and friends everyone.

Kathy, how are you doing watching the goodies? I was real bad yesterday and with all the food in this house today and at my son's, not sure I can maintain today either! I guess Monday is a new day to start again.

Happy Christmas everybody. I hope that you are all enjoying your day, and that santa brought you lots of nice presents. I am off to spend the afternoon with my brother soon. Annie B.

Shame we can't read the signs today.

Merry Christmas to all from Scuba Santa in the bag!

More visitors.

The 2 divers earlier were Lisa and I following through on a tradition we have each Christmas of "seeing" our family and friends from the Reef cam. Merry Christmas from us as well!

Merry Christmas Susan. I am still smiling about Santa in the bag. Annie B.

Hi Annie, have fun at your brother's house. My FIL is here, and we're having a relaxing morning.

Debbie, I've been SO BAD. I'll have to go on a "starvation diet" after this! Starting....tomorrow. I have 21 days to be swim suit ready. argh

Susan, thanks for the entertainment!

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Torsten

A fin of some sort...and the art is being moved. That one actually looks like some sort of calender, or schedule of events to me.

I am glad you enjoyed. He is very well traveled. We have a journal and everything.....

Susan and Lisa, Your Christmas tradition is cool!!

Merry Christmas to you all:-{)}

This is a very different Christmas for me this year. I will not be cooking X-mas dinner for the first time that I can remember. My son got married this last July and bought a home some 40 minutes away and invited us all over to his home for dinner. Such a nice thing to do, his first Christmas with his new wife and all, wanting to share it with us too!. My parents are here too and also going along. I just feel that I should be doing something in the kitchen other than eat!

Found this little guy on the u/w cam

Merry Christmas from Sault Ste. Marie, Canada

Mrs. T and I drove up yesterday - 10 hours!!

Currently -15 C, +5F translation - DAMN COLD!!

Hope everyone is having a great Christmas

People on the cam.....


Bill

Odd how this thing just keeps hanging around.


And a couple w/a santa hat.

This looks inviting.
Merry Christmas, Bill.

Merry Christmas to each and everyone. Hope everyone got what they wanted for Christmas. Going to my parents now will see ya'll on BT tomorrow. Andy

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU !
Don't forget to watch the cams tomorrow from 8 AM till 11 PM as the Queen Mary II is expected in KRALENDIJK for a few hours stop. Happy them :o)
Bed time here ... See you soon

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

Susan - I knew that was Lisa and you - I just could not log on till now to tell anyone!!! LOL!! My kids and hubby ties up the computer all day playing with their gifts!!! An iPod and a new golf computer game!!

I hope that you and Lisa are having a great, quiet Christmas in your new home!!!

This is too cute to not post!!

Merry Christmas all! Susan, thanks for the Santa in the bag ;-)

Cooking spagetti for michael and I, and making cheesecake for the kids who are arriving tomorrow...our best Christmas present is that my stepson Dylon, who is 16 is NOT going home! He will be living with us from now on! We are soooo excited, he is such a neat kid, has the best smile and laugh...best part is since he got certified last summer, we can do a LOT more diving with him now! wooohoooooo!!!!!

Cindy - wonderful news!!! I bet Dylon is very excited too!!

Right now we have a goose cooking on the grill and I finally have the computer!!!

Cynde - I was so excited that I misspelled your name - please accept my apologies!!!

Martine - its good to see you posting!!!

Cynde, that's GREAT news! I wish the same would happen here! Hi Mary. We've stayed in all day and have eaten too much. Right now my husband and his dad are having MORE red velvet cake and coffee. Me, I poured a glass of wine. Too much food this weekend! They are watching a shark dive video we had made last year. lol I guess I'll go join them.

A few raindrops and picasso on his rounds.

A fish has come to wish everyone a Happy Christmas Night!!!

Kathy - sounds like a great Christmas - Dirk and I just finished watching a video called Sensational Seas - I gave to to Dirk for Christmas - made me want to get into the water right now!!!

Nice capture of the raindrops!!

Merry Christmas BT'rs

The 10:54 capture was Sue and I, we brought a sign to hold up, but the camera is high and our sign too small.

Susan and Lisa we hope your move went well.

Cynde congratulations for Dylon joining you and Michael - Lots more diving.

Just had the best day diving today, Frog Fish, little Seahorse, Squid, Great Barracuda, Midnight Blue Parrotfish, free swimming White Spotted and Huge Green Moray encounters and then 30 minutes with a small untagged Hawksbill turtle all the way back to the boat. This turtle was cool and not shy at all he swam three feet away for most of the time.

Whoa! Came back to find this!

Mary, I'm back in the water in 21 days and CANNOT wait. Not Bonaire, but Roatan - but I've never been there so I'm very excited.

more luscious color and signs that are too far

Brian, we have the same camera, but you've got that monster strobe, lol. Hope you got some good pics today!

Another one that came in a blast of quick color and then faded. Glorious while it lasted!

Kathy

We have just had a rain storm for twenty mins in Bon. I have a new camera - Nikon D70 and have some more cools shots from today.

Enjoy Roatan

Thanks Brian. Enjoy Bonaire! We don't get to go back until July and that seems far, far away.

hmm, almost like a second sunset


I've got more company on the way, so this better hurry. lol

Hope everyone had a great Christmas Day and now it's evening here. Just got back from having dinner at my son's house. His wife is a great cook. Lots of good food and company. He gave us this great portrait of the sun setting through some palm trees that is breathtaking! I was so touched. He said I could look at that and think of Bonaire! I have just the place for hubby to hang it too!

Great captures on the cam today gals and guys, well, my parents are still here till Monday, so I better go entertain for awhile.

We just had the most interesting meeting. My husband found his biological father 2 years ago on Christmas Eve (he was adopted). Tonight we met a stepson his father raised and his wife - they drove down for a few hours to meet with hubby's real dad who has come up for the weekend and is still here. He and my husband are having the best time talking and bonding. He's such a nice fellow, and he really was bamboozled out of his son...long story of a 1957 divorce and subsequent marriages and an adoption of my husband by a stepfather. We didn't want hubby's dad's stepson and his wife to go and they hated to leave. It was great! They are from TN, and we have plans to meet with them soon. Very, very nice people. With my gigantic family, and my husband growing up thinking he was an only child, it's amazing watching his family grow. It's just thrilling and tear jerking all at the same time. And they are all very nice people! We'll meet his half sisters soon, and hopefully his half brother, we've all talked and everyone is interested in the meeting, and the stepbrother says he looks just like his sisters. Magic on Christmas. Hope ya'll had some.

Merry Christmas, Kathy! Wow, that's some story, I'm still a little confused on who is who, but it sounds wonderful for you all. I have always thought that Christmas is a very magical day!

Larry is my husband.
He was born in 1957 to his mom and her husband, Larry's biological dad, Herbert. Herbert was in the Army and was sent to Korea for 2 years. His wife, Larry's mom, stayed in Ft. Riley, KS. While Herbert was in Korea, Larry's mom divorced Herbert and married another man, Richard, also Army. Somehow, and definitely not legal and proper, Larry's mom pushed though an adoption of Larry by his stepfather, Richard, when Larry was less than 2 years old. Herbet had searched for him since. Larry never knew he was not his "father's" child (stepfather/adopted father) until a cousin told him when he was sixteen. He might have asked one question of his mother, but his was not an open family, he was shot down and then he let it lie all those years. Me, I'm a truthteller. lol I couldn't stand it. I urged him to find his biological father, because really, I couldn't understand not knowing or wondering, plus his only child stuff was irritating because he didn't know how to deal with my gigantic family. I really hoped he had family, I wanted him to find out. He went into search mode 3 years ago on the internet, silently from me, opened his adoption records, filed for his parents marraige records, etc., and then called me in for help, and 2 years ago Christmas Eve he found his biological father. And when he did reach him that night on the phone, his bio father (Herbert) cried and cried, thought of it as the greatest blessing of his life. And we immediately went to see him, just 5 hours away. And subsequently took the children and grandchildren to see him and began from that moment to involve him in our life. He and Larry talk almost every day. In the meantime, in that 45 year span, Larry's bio dad (Herbert) had married 3 more times. 2 wives died. He raised a stepson alone after one died, and the daughters were grown and on their own by the time of the second divorce, and the second death of a spouse. Now, after all these years, it's all hooking back up. All these lost children who shared a father are finding each other, and being with him.

Hope that explained it! The visitors tonight were Larry's dad's (Herbert) stepson Randy, (that he raised after Randy's mother's death) and Randy's wife. There are 2 half sisters and a half brother that are blood relatives to Larry that we haven't met yet, who want to meet very badly, and that's where it stands.



It makes me happy. And Larry is very happy, downstairs with his father who he looks so much like, pouring through photo albums.

Glad to see that you all had a nice Christmas, but what a crazy mixed up world we live in. My Dad was Canadian, and my husband's mother was married to a rich French man who owned a perfume factory in France, he died in a road accident when Trev was a baby. That is all I know about who we are. Annie B.

Hahaha! Some of us could even be related.

Hi Kathy,

I got it now, that is amazing, I am happy for your husband and father! Good luck with reuniting all of his kin! Debbie

Great story Kathy. I teared up reading it! Family isn't always about blood, but it's important to know what all that involved. But those great big blended families are fabulous too, as evidenced in your photo on CC!