Monday, February 7, 2011

The girls are here!

Betty and Dylaina arrived today, albeit late.  They got on the plane in Toronto and then sunwing determined that the plane was overweight so they said that they would have to remove some luggage, but that they wouldn't take any dive bags off, given that they were heading to a dive destination.  Then they said that they would just get some fuel removed to lighten the load.  It was determined that it would take two hours for the truck to get to them to suck off some fuel, so they decided it would be faster to just disembark and let the plane taxi around the airport for half an hour or so, so off the passngers went.  The plane went for a little tour and they finally re-boarded and got on their way.  Fortunately for us, we were seeing all of these delays on flight tracker, so we weren't waiting at the Roatan airport for them to arrive.  Next adventure; we get to the airport and soon see the two of them make it to the customs counter.  I thought it was taking a long time to process them, and could see Dylaina doing a lot of talking and gestering.  Then the customs officer left her desk and got a supervisor.  Next we see the two of them getting escorted to the back room.......oh oh....Our new friend Genny was there to pick up some people and I asked her what it meant when someone was sent to the back offices in Customs,  She shook her head, never heard of that happening before.....It turns out that customs had not removed some documents from their passport when they left last year, so officially they had spent the last year in Roatan.  Dylaina claimed ignorance.......Eventually they were cleared and all is well.
Snorkelled this morning, nothing spectacular.  Went to the highly rated Lobster Pot for dinner.  Good food and wicked strong Marguritas, but my god they were slow.  It's 10:50 now and we've only been home for half an hour.  But it was another perfect weather day and tomorrow is supposed to be similar although a few degrees cooler (~28)  With a poor long range forecast, I think we're going to take a road trip to the far east end of the island tomorrow.  Should be another great day.

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