Another Lazy Day

So the past few days have been lazy ones. We haven't had any customer divers or cruise ship guest come in...which is nice because then the interns get to take the boats out and just mess around. However, since I was getting over my cold and stuff, I decided to take Sunday off from diving to give my air spaces (sinuses and ears) time to equalize. They needed some time off. I just studied and laid around.
Yesterday was a little more exciting. I got to go on three dives. We did two morning dives. It was just me and the two other guys around here, Steve and Mike, that went. We decided to go to the east end of the island that no one goes to dive. There are plenty of dive sites there, it is just to remote for people to go there regularly. Turns out the diving up there is spectacular. We first dove Three Crabs, where we went down a canyon to a wall. We went down to 120 ft, and worked our way up. The neatest part was when we went around this corner and then looked up. The wall was completely covered with these huge black branching corals. They stuck out from the wall a good 6 feet with a span of 7 feet. It was so spectacular. Another great part about this dive was all the sponges. There was this one reef that was covered in sponges of every shape, size and color. The majority of them were the barrel sponges, which are my favorite. It is so neat to see a field of them all together. The second dive was at Dennis's Place. The reef here was the coolest. It was just tiers of corals and sponges placed on top of each other. It reminded me of the reef shown in Finding Nemo. It was so healthy and alive. After the morning dives we went to the shop and ate our daily portion of rice and beans. During lunch a new intern showed up. She is from the UK but for the past year and a half she has been working on a Disney Cruise line.
We then went on our third dive to Milton's Bight. We saw a really large spotted eagle ray but not much else. We mostly just goofed around and played games. Everyones favorite seems to be the "riding" game. Everyone trys to sneak up on one another and then latch on to their tank and ride them. If you get a good hold on them they can not get rid of you. It kind of fun to catch each other off guard.
On the way home we went to the store. I was walking around and all the sudden two guys turned up my aisle and both were carrying AK 47s. That always takes you by surprise and reminds you that you are no longer in America. Back at the casa we all just napped and then decided to go for chinese food since we got a new intern. This Chinese place actually serves really good Chinese. It is communal Chinese food so the whole table orders about 3 plates and then we all eat from them. The crazy part is how big the plates are. There is always leftovers. After eating we went to my favorite place, Cream of the Trop. This is the local ice cream shop and the ice cream is SO good. So far I have had cinnamon, tiramisu, coconut, chocolate mocha, and tamarindo. All have been amazing.
Today, we woke up to go the shop but everyone is getting sick. The shop manager, Marshall, thought he had strep so he went to the doctor. About half the other interns went with him to get checked out or have their physicals done. I just hung out at the house and slept in the hammock. When they got back everyone just decided to stay home and take the day off. So just another lazy day at the house. So far I haven't done anything productive besides going to visit the community's pet monkey. She gets real lonely so I went down with Amanda to see her. She ran over and sat down in front of us and then hunched over. It was really weird but then we figured out she wanted us to "groom" her. We proceeded to pick through her hair and pet her and she was in heaven. It was so strange....I would have never expected to be practically asked by a monkey to groom it.

I think later a bunch of the interns are going to the beach and stuff. Besides that....who knows