Merry Christmas from Bill!

Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 from Bonaire!!! We had an excellent day!! We didn’t have any set plans for the day, so we embraced the “caribe lyfe” as they say here and took it easy. 
Food here for breakfast and lunch seems to be the same things each day. I tend to have meats and cheese with bread for both and some fruit added in occasionally. They do cook to order some things at all meals and those options are usually good, I’ve only done that for supper once so far. The rest of the choice have been good so I haven’t done it more. The staff still needs to work on providing drinks. I’m not sure if they are purposely slow due to most are ordering alcoholic beverages and they are trying to keep costs down? You would think they would be Johnny on the spot though with water. Speaking of the water here, it’s desalinated sea water so it’s very good. 

We went into town on the scooter and looked around a little, there wasn’t much to do since it’s Christmas and most places were closed. We are going to go in some morning for souvenirs. The island is known for diving with a history in donkey and salt exports. There is also a slave history here as well. I’m going to guess most souvenirs will be dive related. 

The salt fields/concentration ponds are owned by Cargill. It’s interesting to see the big piles of salt and it’s not in a D.O.T. Shed for road use. I know slaves were used in the salt production back in the day and hopefully we get a chance to find out more of the history of all that at some point. 

After our scooter cruise downtown we were going to snorkel. I had a good idea in theory to take the scooter out to some of the other dive sites and snorkel but, the accesses along the beach road are very rocky with some sharp corals and we don’t have aqua sock or shoes for the water with us so… 
we came back to the resort and went snorkeling for quite a while. I got some videos and pictures with my little camera. I am able to save pictures to my phone so we do have some of those, for some reason it won’t let me save 720 resolution videos though. I may have to see if I can change some settings either on the phone or the camera so we can get some of those posted! 

Snorkeling was fun, I think that was the longest I have had my face in the water. We seem to do really well with snorkeling. I’m hoping it is helping to prepare us for scuba if we get to do that on Friday. 

They had a “special” Christmas dinner tonight, not sure what made it special. I had to wear long pants because they put a note under our door yesterday requesting no shorts and to dress to impress. Emily looked very nice, she usually does though. Food was basically same type, there were more deserts, nothing that was impressive though and there were still plenty of shorts and sweatshirts to be seen. They are probably not going to get long pants tomorrow for Boxing Day dinner, I only brought one pair of legs. (My Columbia pant/ shorts)

We are sitting out by the ocean doing our updates. It’s very nice out, the breeze is strong but keeps it a nice temperature and there are a few waves 🌊 we can hear. They are picking up the cushions to close this area down, so it’s time to wrap this up. I should find out about the exercise area but I also feel like relaxing. 
I hope everyone had a wonderful day and enjoyed however you chose to celebrate Christmas.