Bonaire, Netherland Antilles



Deb Ward, Nancy Smith & Judy Lesley



We had a great day here and lots of fun with the girls laughing.  I will tell you more later as I just wanted to see if I could upload some pictures since the weather has cleared. 

It had been raining rather hard and we were not able to see a lot until we actually got very close. Kay, Judy, Nancy, Debbie and I went to lunch in the dining room. We got this waiter who was so funny that we were there for the entire hour and a half that they were open for lunch. His name was Lime which was pronounced Leemay. He was so funny that we couldn’t stop laughing and I took a video of him trying to feed Judy her lunch. That was the most we have laughed since we have been on the ship. He told us he day name was Emil (Lime backwards) and dinner name was Lime and his evening name was Jessica…what a hoot he was.

We all met on the pier and walked into the downtown area. Everything was quite flooded and wet but at least it had quit raining. There were lots of places that had really nice crafts to look at and I think we all came back to the ship with a few purchases. This was a short stay for us so there really wasn’t time to go anywhere else and it was so humid and hot we headed back to the ship. The heat just makes you tired. We ran into almost all the girls from the group at one point..Suzy and Rita had gone snorkeling and saw seas snakes and several varieties of eel (yuck) but they loved it and said they had a great time. Deb was with us and we saw Judy B and Martha while out as well. We had a nice day and the people on Bonaire were very nice. This is a tiny island that looks like Aruba. As of January they will no longer be part of Netherland Antilles but will be owned by Holland. The natives are not very happy about the change. They say they will get all the problems with none of the benefits.

We went to dinner and on to the casino and neither of us did well so we came back to wait for Carol Calvin to bring us the evening brain teaser.



Lime with Judy