According to the Rudy Benner descending countdown program . . . 18 days!!!!

I'm going crazy again, too much to do before departure, too little time.
Family wanting to come and stay, other family needing serious surgery.  Two
classes a week in Spanish has taught me that I don't know much Spanish and
instructing a college course one night a week in my own discipline, lots of
work for the clients, hasn't left me much time for all the other things in
life than need to be taken care of prior to departure.  Still no weight loss
to help me into my smaller hotweather clothes and now not enough time to
meet my goals in that regard.  I suppose if I'd quit partying so much on the
few evenings I have free, I'd not be in such a bind but it's been a lot of
fun.  Too bad I couldn't convince myself that tax prep, exercise and home
organization were of primary concern.

I shall have to incorporate a bit more discipline into my schedule and see
if that's of any help at all. Ya like that will actually happen.

18 days!!!!!  Yahoo!!  Until the yahoo sisters show their faces in West End
again.  I hope they are ready for us too.

I can't seem to pass a dollar store without picking up a bunch toys,
soothers, rattles, crayons, coloring books, silly pens, etc. to pass out to
the kids in French Harbor and Punta Gorda.

Our plans are to make the day trip island tour early in the week so that we
aren't too run down.  The last time we took toys to the kids, was an
absolute mob scene and I was suffering from tourista which made it all that
much more interesting. I must learn how to say in Spanish "Get in line" "one
at a time" and "be good".  Hopefully, that will help out a bit.  Kalina says
if it gets too rough, we'll just throw everything out the window of 'el
carro' and let the melee begin.

I'd like to do the zipline canopy tour again, but probably won't have time
to fit it in, since this trip is only a week long.  I'm trying to remember
when I last did a one week trip.

Oh yes, of course, the diving . . .with some great luck we'll catch sight of
a whale shark, since it is the time of the full moon. I hope to have another
encounter or two with live dolphins and I'm particularly looking forward to
the eel garden and the sailfin blennies' signalling one another.  And dare I
wish for another pair of mating burrfish? Sigh.

See ya at the airport Rudy.