Run around, rest, and do nothing but be busy

The day started early for us, 6:15am, as Pat and Natalie, who are joining us for two of the weeks we are here, were arriving on the red-eye flight from Houston. The same car rental firm forgot to pick them up at the airport, so they took a cab and arrived at about 7:20am. We had arranged for our rental truck to be dropped off at the unit at 8am; they showed at 8:50am. They informed me that they had given away our rental truck, which was a nice one, and they only had a wreck for us. I asked if they had Pat and Natalie’s truck, and the woman looked at me funny. She didn’t and said that she had them arriving later in the day. I had told them on the phone the night before that Pat and Natalie were arriving on the red-eye in the morning and not to forget to pick them up. She said she would be back in about 30 minutes with Pat and Natalie’s truck, so we went out to get some breakfast. Our truck had no seat belts and Trudy didn’t want to keep it. When Pat and Natalie’s truck arrived we talked to them about getting a new truck. We arranged to exchange the truck at 5pm for a brand new truck. At 5pm when we arrived at the garage to pick up the new tuck and they had the hood up and were working on it. Apparently the air conditioning didn’t work; we took the truck anyway and they are going to e-mail us when they get a new truck and we can again exchange.

We also did some grocery shopping and got registered with Yellow Submarine for the diving for the next three weeks. And I managed to have a nap.

The evening ended with a wonderful meal from “Bobbie Jans”. I want everyone to understand how much I like this restaurant. On a web site dedicated to Bonaire; www.bonairetalk.com, there was a post asking for your 7 favourite restaurants; I posts “Bobbie Jans” seven times. They are only open on the weekends, so I will be having them again tomorrow evening.