What to do first? Well, the first matter to attend to was a boat tour and discussing where everyone could fall blissfully to sleep after a couple of rum-laced sleeping aides. We had priced hotel rooms and discussed logistics beforehand. We had suggested that everyone could stay aboard if they thought they would be comfortable […]
Mamaw, Papaw and Toni arrived for the much anticipated Roatan visit last Wednesday. Apparently, the Oklahoma City-to-Houston leg was terrible due to weather. To cap things off, the pilot for the Houston-to-Roatan flight was a little hesitant to apply brakes until right there at the end of the runway. Apparently, Faye is not a fan […]
By Lily On the 12th Cheyenne, Haley, and I played at the beach all day long. Haley and I got out the floaties and paddled out to sea. Then we started a sand castle competition.Haley and me helped Cheyenne on her sand castle by making a pond. Then Cheyenne did not finish hers so there […]
Lily has found three chums to hang with this week. They swim, play “wax statues” on the beach, chase monkeys and giggle loudly. Ok, well, Lily seems to be the principal giggler. That will surprise no one back home. Also, one monkey will chase back and has sharp little claws. Lily is also chums with […]
Most nights, we hit the sheets pretty soon after the sun goes down. Between volleyball, playing on the beach and the nightly cool-down cocktail, we are ready at nightfall to surrender to the gentle rocking of our berths. However, Friday night we soldiered up and stayed up until 11 pm to watch the Fantasy Island […]
We dropped by the dive shop yesterday morning to thumb through their full-color Reef and Coral of Roatan book. There is so much to learn and we want to know a little bit about who we are swimming with down there. It is driving me crazy trying to research reef life via slow internet and […]
We showed up for the cruisers daily volleyball game. I had this pictured as a few of us knocking the ball around with an occasional “not to bad maybe we should keep score” moment. Score was kept. I should have realized what was about to go down when one of the players said to Lily, […]
We spent yesterday snorkeling on the West End Bay reef. We saw lots of interesting coral and colorful fish. The Parrot Fish are the easiest for us to spot and id. We love to watch their fins fluttering so gently as the nibble the corral with their weird-looking mouths. After a couple of hours of […]
Last night, we were both sitting around after dinner talking about how good we were going to sleep after the all-night sail to Utila. Randall looked up and said, “We’re dragging!” We had been sitting there semi-comatose but those two words got us both in gear as the boat drifted precariously close to the neighboring […]
We left on Sunday for Roatan and just made it to Utila, a few miles short of our intended destination. We anchored the first night in Texan Bay and hit the prettiest part of the river the next morning with a beautiful sun breaking through the fog. Lily likes to get on the bow of […]