Hiatus II

Okay, where do I begin to get caught up on this blog?  Friday was another interesting day at the hospital, saw more great procedures (hand tendon repair) and took more blood (100% success rate).  Weather not cooperating, we delayed our scuba trip by one day.  Instead, we relaxed and watched Pineapple Express, pretty funny.  Saturday, accompanied by sunny skies, we drove up to Charlotteville for our long awaited scuba trip.  We did some fishing for a few hours in the afternoon, but considering it was midday (fishy sleeping time), we didn't catch anything.  I think our guide knew that but was quite content taking our money, oh well, it wasn't too expensive and the boat ride itself was well worth it.   At night we relaxed by the Banana Boat bar, watched a local soccer game, had a few drinks and played our cards.  We were preparing ourselves for the extraordinary day to come.

We got up at 540am for a morning fish.  Success! We caught a tuna and a kingfish(25-30lbs), exciting stuff.  We returned for 8am, ate bacon and eggs for breakfast, and started the introduction for the diving.  To make two amazing but long diving stories short (40 minutes dive time each), we saw a reef shark (at least 5 feet long, we were less than 1 metre away, it wasn't even that scary as the view through the goggles made it seem like watching a nature doc), an octopus, a barracuda, a turtle, two big fish (at least 6 feet, don't remember their name) and thousands of smaller, beautifully coloured fish.  I'm hooked and hope to do my PADI certification when I go back to Australia (we were planning on doing it here but just ran out of time).  We drove back to our house, about an 1.5 hour drive, and despite being utterly exhausted we went to Sunday School.  No not church, it's a weekend festival in Tobago with yummy grilled food, cold beer and a steel band (played some Bob Marley and other classics).  It was the largest conglomeration of tourists we had seen to date on the island, quite refreshing.  Well, then we went to bed  (about midnight), only to have the alarms wake us 6 hours later... WAY TOO EARLY.  I was exhausted today, but still took more blood successfully and observed a lumpectomy, laproscopic cholecystectomy and a hemorrhoidectomy.   

Oh yeah, on an interesting note, I woke up Sunday morning with a weird rash on my knees and ankles, hope it's nothing serious, got some steroid cream today which should clear it up.

I'm off, until later.