As I am now back from my vacation I shall delight you, dear reader, with
tales from the sea. For those that are working my hope is that you
vicariously live through my experiences as well. The place: Cozumel, a
little island off of the coast of Mexico. It was destroyed last year
during hurricane Wilma, but has since recuperated to be a tourist hot
spot again. I took Wednesday through Sunday off of work and flew down
there with my girlfriend, Holly. We were with a group of 50 divers
gathered from Blue Dolphin Scuba in Frisco, TX. Technically we left on
Thursday but I spent Wednesday getting prepared, like packing, getting
my satellite TV fixed, and buying a PSP with games and movies for the
plane trip. I have no buyer's remorse, the PSP rocks. Anyway, the plane
trip was pretty easy, it took like 2 and half hours but I didn't notice
cause I was watching TRON, the ultimate in computer movies, on my PSP.
Then when we arrived we had to go through customs and stuff and we all
merged as one group of 50 people taking taxi's to the hotel. Right after
we settled in we were off to the first dive of the trip. This dive would
be a walk-in dive from the beach. The people at Papa Hog's Scuba Shop
helped us with our gear and made sure everything was right. Holly and I
were dive buddies the whole time of course. Our first dive was
mesmerizing. We saw tons of fish and the sunset went down and then we
both realized we had gone far out and no one was around. So we went back
to shore to find out we were the last ones to come in. They took our
gear for the night and we ate at the hotel restaurant. The hotel was a
good hotel. There was a group of kids in the lobby on laptops the whole
3 days we were there. Apparently the Blythe Education Group decided to
spend their summer vacation in the lobby at Cozumel surfing the
internet. We both thought that was odd. At the restaurant I had some
weird kind of hamburger made from taco meat. Then we went walking and
spent some time together. The first day was most excellent. I did take
some underwater pictures and will post those once I get them back. Stay
tuned for part 2 tomorrow.

Dive Log Number: 1
Time: 38 min
Water Temp: 85
Average Depth: 14 ft
Max Depth: 26 feet

Thought of the Day
"Jerry, look at my eyes."
"Hmmm... they're a little less beady today."
"Because I'm refreshed! I finally found a way to sleep in my office.
Under the desk! I lie on my back, I tuck in the chair. I'm invisible!"
"Sounds like a real cool fort."
- George and Jerry, in "The Nap"

// posted by Brian @ 8/07/2006 01:14:00 PM