Windy night

Wind is howling pretty good here on the east side tonight, but from the looks of the Saskatoon weather forecast, I think our visibility is a little better than what is predicted for home in the next 24 hours.  I suspect that the bare grass than Glen told us was still visible on the edge of the lane may get covered up.
We decided to head over to Sandy Bay this morning to check out the Underwater Museum, expecting that they might be busy with cruise shippers.  Stopped at the dive shop to get my flippers and booties.  They had absolutely nobody booked to dive today, so when Sylvia saw me she sort of looked panicked, since they didn't even have a boat captain around.  She was quite relieved when she found out why I was there. When we got to the underwater museum, we were the only people around.  They were even going to have to call someone to come and give us the tour, but when we found out it was $35 per person, we declined.  Headed back towards West End, but stopped in at the little bakery that we frequented last year and picked up a couple of their pastries and a loaf of bread.  Good blueberry danishes.....Stopped at West end a picked up a tee shirt that Glen had asked us to get for him. On the way back to West Bay we stopped at the lookout that is right next to one of the zip line operations.  Paid our one tourist dollar to climb up their lighthouse for a look at the scenery, hoping that we could see the Turrets (our housing development), but there was still one hill obstructing that view.  Nice view of the West End area from there though:

West End view, you can see the floating bar moored out by the reef (center right) and the pennisula at Half Moon Bay (right edge)

 Stopped at the house, picked up the beer cozies and went down to Smugglers, thinking we would have lunch and a snorkel, although I knew that the tides wouldn't be in our favour.  It was calm enough but the tide was really low, so we skipped the snorkelling part, had a good lunch of wings and nachos, and soaked up their sun for a few hours.  Screaming hot down there where it's out of the wind.
Came back to the house about 3.  There is this one bird that has been desperatly trying to get into the patio doors on the second level of the house for weeks now.  I don't know what he wants in for.

Need to look this guy up in a birdbook when we get back too.

Showered and headed to CocoLobo for their Friday night happy hour, hoping that Genny might have the same plans.  We parked in an empty lot just outside the entrance to west End, took a few steps towards town and heard someone calling Brian, Brian.  It was Genny, heading into the same parking area.  Perfect!  We walked to Coco Lobo with her and Steven, and had a good time there for an hour or so.  Genny still laughs hysterically when anyone mentions the night that her and Shawnda met the four of us (Betty and Dylaina making up the foursome) after we had come off the floating bar sunset booze cruise last year.  I don't remember the details of the humour that night, but I suspect that Dylaina played a pivitol role.   After happy hour we walked down to the Rotisere Chicken and had dinner.  Full chicken dinner, beers, deserts, and four cinamon buns to go for $25 per couple, tip included.  No wonder that place is so popular. About half way back to the car, I hear someone yelling Brian again.  This time it's Trish and her gang, who had just finished dinner at Tongs and were starting to look for a way to get home.  Eileen said we could take two, but there was about six or seven of them.  Genny couldn't leave until we finished our visit, cause I was holding the bag of cinammon buns.....Got back to the cars, said our good byes and made it home.  They've actually filled in the potholes on the road between West End and West Bay, so the driving is even more fun now than it used to be.  Also a lot safer as there isn't all the lane changing happening while you're evading the holes.  All in all, it turned out to be a pretty good day.

Morning dives booked for tomorrow.  I'm the only one on the dive board, and if it stays that way I suspect that Adam will take me on a bit of a deeper dive that he wants to do. He told me to bring my logbook along with me tomorrow, so that he can check out my dive history.  It's up at Melissas Place which is a site that is straight out from Tranquil Seas.  It'll be a bit of a boat ride, so we'll likely do two dive sites up there and just come back to Luna Beach after the two dives are done.