The Perfect Saturday

At the clinic, we work hard all week.. but man, do we ever know how to relax just as hard on the days off. This morning, we started the day off with snorkeling at 7am.. yes I said AM!! Which seems crazy, especially on a Saturday, but its when the ocean is the nicest, and it isn't too hot. We went snorkeling down next to Anthony's Key (which is a local resort and dolphin training centre/santuary). Our friends, Suzie & Darren, are staying at a beach house right next to Anthony's key, so their private dock is like 10 -20 meters from the edge of the dolphin pens. So we went snorkeling right up next to the dolphin pens and from there we could see the dolphins SO well! It was fantastic! The dolphins are kept in the pens by a net but the holes in the netting are easily the size of a small plate (prob 5 inches in diameter) so the dolphins can easily stick their snouts (do dolphins have 'snouts' or  what would you call their nose/beak thing..anyways) out through the holes and everyone was petting them etc. It was like our own private dolphin encounter.. only we didn't pay a thing for it! (and the owners of Anthony's Key, know that we do it and they are fine with it.. as long as we don't bother the dolphins while they are training.. which is another reason why we go so early in the morning). So we played with the dolphins and then just snorkeled around.. we saw some pretty sweet fish, a lobster (which wasn't a huge draw for me, but the girls from New Jersey loved it! lol) and a pretty big sting ray! I'm not over my fear of fish yet.. but I'm making some serious progress! :)
Then after the sweet swim, at like 10 am I did some schoolwork on my laptop and the internet since both are finally working again! Praise God! Then this afternoon a bunch of the volunteers went out to Brick Bay, a local community prob 1 hr away on the south side of the island. Peggy, the woman who owns/founded/runs the clinic is a bit of a local celebrity here and everyone really appreciates what she does for the local people. So everyone knows Peggy and we get a lot of sweet connections through her. She knows this American couple who are building condos in Brick Bay.. the condos aren't completely finished yet and not furnished, thus not sold.. but the pool, beach and patio area are done and lonely without guests to enjoy them. So these nice people offered to let us volunteers come and spend the afternoon there. So we went over and enjoyed the pool, the view and I personally enjoyed a lounge chair & good book in the sun! It was beautiful and I think I'm finally getting some color! I look so pastey white next to the Hispanic Hondurans and the Roatan Islanders (who are black).
Then this evening, I was wiped so I just enjoyed a nice supper with my family here and have been chilling for the rest of the evening. I did a bit more schoolwork (researching for a paper! What fun! lol please sense the sarcasm). It is really really hard to do schoolwork when you are on a beautiful tropical island with tons and tons of things to do that are more fun and exciting than school! lol, so I'm trying to stay on top of things!
I also got a chance to skype my family and a few friends, which was wicked!! Its nice to be able to share just how exciting my time at the clinic has been and really express how much fun I'm having! Man, skype is a wonderful thing!!