Another gorgeous day in Roatan, although Eileen found it a bit warm. Went for our morning walk with the camera so that I could get a collection of hibiscus pictures. Eileen is going to scrapbook a collage of them someday, there are some many different ones along the road here. Finished my book, loaded up an empty crate in the car and then we took off for French Harbour. The Cerveceria was the first stop. It sure is easy to get a crate of beer here. Drive up, pop the trunk, being the nice guy I am, I take the empty crate to their stack and head to the wicket. By the time I've handed over my $23, the next crate is loaded and the trunk is closed. Off we go to the bank. The last time I took a withdrawl in French Harbour, I got an awesome exchange rate, so I thought I would try this bank again. Had to wait a couple of minutes but when it was my turn I got in and stuck in the card. All Spanish but I perservered, and again and again, but couldn't get it to work. Finally gave up and went across the street to another bank, where a guard lets you in the first door to the ATM, then there is another guard at a second door to get into the actual bank. Had a short wait there, but this time when I got up there I stuck in the card as usual and entered my PIN. One of the guards saw me and told me that I had to take out the card. Unlike our ATM's, you are just supposed to swipe you card here and the do the PIN thing. Got my PIN accepted and then stared to enter an amount. Hit the 5 and right away the guard pointed to the screen which said maximum 4000, so I cancelled and started again. Entered 4000 and got another Spanish message. The guard looked at the TD symbol on my card and pointed to the bank across the street........Back I went. Did the swipe thing and voila, I'm in. Hit the English button and nothing changes. Again and still spanish, so I take my best shot. Couple of buttons later and English appears "Enter value of payday loan"....I retreat. Take my next best shot, message says something about unable to complete transaction. Was hesitant with my third choiceof button interpretation but success. Got my lempiras from the right account. Should go log into the bank site and see how the exchange rate went. While all this was going on Eileen was in a clothing store, so we had to hit there to pay for a new top.....call it an extra banking fee....
Picked up a few groceries at Eldons and from there we went out to the Iguana farm which was pretty neat. There are some many different sizes, shapes, and colors in those guys, When you get there they give you some stalks of vegetation that they obviously like, because there are iggys coming from every direction.
Feeding frenzy
Catching some sun
Didn't take long at the Iguana Farm. It was only $8 each which was good because it was fun but not worth more than $8. Short trip back down the road to Pineapple Villas and Herbies Sports Bar. Nice view of French Harbour from the deck but the air conditioning felt good inside. Watched the tenth end of a Scotties curling match on one of their hundred or so TV's and had a really good lunch.
View from the deck at Herbies
Headed home, stopped for a couple of pastries at the bakery (closed Mondays...damn) got an ice cream at the Hungry Monkey, then made it to the house.
Eileen needed to hit some water so she headed to the pool, I felt lazy and had a nice nap. Late afternoon we walked down to Smugglers and ran into Ralph and Karen who had spent a good part of the day there and loved it. Had a good chat with them and then they headed off to West Bay to catch the water taxi back to West End, Ralph groaning about the hill climb that he was about to endure. Planning to hook up with them for dinner at Blue Bahia on Wednesday. Had a couple of beer at Smugglers, it was pretty quiet there.
Smugglers. Don't I tan so nicely?? How do I photoshop that red to a nice golden brown?? It really isn't as red as it looks......must have been flash exposure
Walked back to the house before it got dark, bbq'd up a pack of buffalo wings from the bulk gourmet that were really good, bottle of wine, some salad, life is good. Movie playing behind me but I'm not sure there is an audience.....
Have the morning dives booked for tomorrow. Eileen might come along to Luna Beach tomorrow. Went through my logbook this afternoon and made a list of the dives I have done in Roatan. There have been a lot of repeats but I've done 32 different dive sites here. I wanted to show the list to the divemaster to see if there are any good ones that I have missed.
We've got two more home meals in the freezer and three or four wanna do restaurants left yet, so we're starting to get to the point that we're fitting in calendar spaces. So many good choices, but we're going for our favourites and a couple of newbies. Can't be count down time already, can it??
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