Good morning all, and happy Easter
Here is our Easter tradition. We say all the bells went to Rome on Saint Friday cause they stop ringing. They are retruning from Rome on Easter and use to spray all over their way chocolate eggs in the gardens ( or flats ) for the kids. So the kinds are very impatient to get up on Easter morning and run to look for thoses hidden chocolate eggs.
I think the bells forgot my home... I am just preparing myself for work, but no sunset pics to look at. Anyone lurking to share my morning coffee ? I wish you a very nice day.

Good morning Martine and a happy easter to you too. I'll have my cup of coffee with one lump of sugar please.

Hang in with the (*&%#$ airlines, who ever they are.

Hi Martin, no lazy sunday for you ?
Here's your coffee with one sugar lump.
I am READY for the \@#&*/ airlines ! Thanks for sympathize.
It seems nice weather has gone, quite overcast and chilly this morning, but it would be good for the farmers if it could rain, the country has never been so dry since 1976, and farmers start to worry for their crops.
Can't hardly wait till june and our BBQ and dive(s) together in Bonaire... I wish you a nice day.

Thank you for the coffee.

It's no lazy sunday for me, I'm doing a lot of home improvement at the moment, so it's labour day for me...

The sun is shining here, don't know about the temp. but it looks great. tomorrow a day filled with diving, so things will end well

Where are you diving ? North Sea ? Last september when in Sharm el Sheikh, we met a swiss girl who was diving every week end and the whole year in... Neuchatel lake.
That also means Easter monday in Holland is holiday like us, so you too enjoy a long week end.

No, I'm taking some friends, who are not that experienced, diving in the "Grevelingen". It's a former sea arm in Zeeland. It has been closed from the sea, but the water is salt and there is good vis. (most of the time around 3 to 6 meters).

It's a long weekend, next week one day at the office and 3 days at a course, so I will not complain (too hard )

Wow ! Here no way to dive...except the polluted river Seine ( vis 0 ) or swiming pools.
Martin, I have to leave you now cause I have to prepare myself and go for work. Have a pretty nice day, even doing some home work, tomorrow is another day... :o)

Hi guys,

No PBS but PCS. ( "C" ofcourse for Curacao )
Thank God , ( or whoever) for the webcams , so at least I can see that its still cloudy in the Carribeans.
Anybody ever seen or heard a 16 month old girl with JETLAG !!!!
Feel free to come on over !

I can hear that the first laundry is done by now so , while my wife and my dauhgter are doing their well deserved "beaty nap" Daddy is of to get some work done .

Martin , Grevelingen ? You better get up early then, traffic jam is expected way out in to the water as well. And don't drive using the A58 ,I've heard they are doing reconstruction work at the Flake tunnel ,talking about stupid planning!!!
Have fun . Sjoske.
PS WWWWOWWWWW, do I look pretty with my two weeks carribean sun tan !!!!

Waaaaaaaaah!!! Yesterday at this time I was looking at this water for real!

Sjoske and Carol, Welcome back.

Sjoske, I'm leaving early and I use the other side (Oudorp)..

welcome back jos and carol...PBS, PCS....awweee....

looks like a parrot peeking in, and maybe we will have divers!

here is satchmo...

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chubby...

They're here!

dan, you got it! seems to be just you and i this morning! i am getting ready to do my volunteer stint at the ocean institute...what are you doing today? church, food, family?

surfs up dude!

They're leaving

Good morning, Cynde! I was beginning to think that I was the only person here. I just signed on, and, bingo, there they were!
For me, church this morning, then go visit my dad who is in a residential home--actually its a nursing home (alzheimers, mainly) but it has a residential side, then a big prime rib dinner. Just Lorinda, Barbara (a niece) and I for diner. My family is not big into Easter family dinner.
How about you? What is this volunteering that you do?

Hello!

Nice back

Here they are again

Hi Dan, Michael is on his Coast Guard Reserve weekend, so just me for Easter I volunteer with 2 organizations, one is the Ocean Institute in Dana Point...I work in the marine life education center 2 sunday's each month...

you may have gotten this one already...


i'm off, have a great day, and a nice visit with your dad. alzheimer's is such a difficult thing...

Took a look at the "big" picture of the back and realized it wasn't a back.

Thanks, Cynde. You have a good day, too. Just checked out the coast keepers web site you posted on your profile. Very intereisting.

My dad doesn't, fortunately, have alzeimers. In fact, he just turned 96, is still in his right mind, and on his own two feet. Can't see real well, but other than that in reasonably good health.

Goodbye, fin

And goodbye to all from me. Need to get ready for church. Have a blessed Easter, everyone.

And I am back to take over... Nice surprise when at the airport, I didn't handle that \@#}~/* airlines, but two nice ones. Some people were "ill" today, so the planning has been changed :o)
Nice pics today, thanks gang, and welcome home Jos and Carol. Wish they have a gorgeous sunset to post tonight
Well the best way to cure PBD and PCD is to think to the day you return there.

Good Easter to all! Martine, are you still here? I am back from our trip to the beach and boardwalk...we spent most of our time on the roller coaster (16 trips around. Losts of sailboats to wish I was on in Monterey bay and beautiful weather! Jos, I could never see that my daughter was jet lagged on our many trips, she slept all the time on the plane and again at home!I see Chubby is busy today!

Hmm, where did that old pic come from...trying again!

Hi Barbara,
I am still here but just for a little while. I have to get up quite early tomorrow. I swap my schedule with a coleague who needed to start later. So I wish to sleep soon.
Nice to hear you had a good week end. Are you working tomorrow in USA ? Easter monday is holiday in France.
Great news, the sparrows are back in Paris ! I just saw the two first ones a couple of minutes ago. I really love to be awake by their screems in the morning. It means for me summer is around the corner. Yes Chubby made us a visit and Romeo too, and Picasso escorted a diver.

Martine: Do I understand that you and Jean Paul will be in Bonaire same time as us? We are there from June 7-15.

And you too, Rusty? in Bonaire same time as us?

And you too, Rusty? in Bonaire same time as us?
Does this look like what passes for low tide.. with some of the rocks in the water exposed?

Hi, Cathy...not sure if Martine is still awake but I think she will be there for some of those same days...and, yes, Martine tomorrow is a working day for me...back after a weeks vacation which was as taxing as work due all the home improvements going on! I believe this is Jo...

Divers..

Here they are on top...

Woohoo, Cathy, Yes, we'll be on Bonaire same as you, with Martin de Weger (Holland) and Cecil and Rusty (USA). Can't imagine the party we'll have together there. Geeeez !
Jake, just be prepared to have your beach INVADED, afterall, am I not your permanent new cam cleaner ?
We are supposed to stay at Divi (as usual), but I am waiting for JP's return to make the reservations, after all he his my favourite banker (see profile :o) ).
Cathy, you truly manage super in posting pics !!!
We told you, once you got it... ugh?
Have a nice evening gang, I am going to bed now. Nighty night.

Martine, did I miss something??? Is Rusty coming over as well?? When and where will she be on Bonaire???

Looks like Charlotte and Jo..

Going to say goodbye for now...must be off to see "The King and I"....went to the Easter vigil mass yesterday so going out for fun today!
Gold and green jewels..

back from the institute...dan, sorry, i misunderstood your post about your dad...glad he doesn't have AD.

Cathy, i don't think there is much of a "high" or "low" tide on bonaire. Those rocks you see are exposed most of the time...the gold colored ones are actually coral rubble! martin has a spreadsheet going over in "everything else" with a list of names of those that will be on bonaire click here to get to the thread.

splish splash

Only 38 days and I'll be waiving at you guys from this view...



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hey martini...waves and dr. pepper!

Yeah, I can't wait, but I'm going diving tomorrow, maybe I'll post some pictures later (first time down with my digital camera!!!!!!)

martin, PLEASE take pictures and share had 2 new critters today at the institute, red kelp fish and a decorator crab...can't find any info on the red kelp fish though...my new favorites!

some missed fish...


sunsets are coming..