Harbour Village Marina
Kralendijk,
Bonaire
12.09.849N
68.17.088W

Today’s big project was getting some major provisioning done before turning in the car. Dale & Gerry had dropped off the propane bottles for re-filling and while in the marina office checked on laundry and mail. Nothing yet.

We took off about 9am and were able to find just about everything that we needed. I actually found bread that is good for a month. Can’t wait to try that. We also found yogurt that doesn’t have to be refrigerated; that should be interesting too. We took turns returning to the boat since the little Suzuki couldn’t hold us and the groceries.

Once we were back, Nicky needed to make a quick trip to the dentist because one of her fillings fell out during the night. All of this needed to be accomplished before the car had to be returned by noon; and we did it.

Back on the Palace I needed to take anything in cardboard out, vacuum seal larger purchases into smaller ones and put everything away. For all of you giving me a rough time about toilet paper, I did not buy any on this trip. (I’ll restock when we get to Puerto Rico). Dale excused himself and stayed out of the way due to the fact that I tend to get Touret’s Syndrome when things don’t fit; turn about is fair play and I've learned from the best. Really there was no need, I hadn’t over shopped on this trip and the only time I got frustrated was when a tube of biscuit dough burst before I had a chance to get it into the refrigerator.

Have you ever noticed that we seem to always be trying to work around various island holidays to check or check out? Bonaire is no different. The weather looks good to head north on Sunday and the holiday celebrating Queen Beatrice’s birthday is on Monday and Tuesday, which means we need to check out and retrieve our flare gun on Friday or Saturday. Since we’re still in the marina and can walk to the nice Argentinean restaurant across the harbor, we decided to celebrate Dale’s birthday tonight instead of tomorrow. Nicky and I had bought the guys gifts at the El Conquistador back in February. Gerry had to wait to get his gift until now because we figured that as soon as Dale saw it, he’d know what he got.

The restaurant was right across from our boats and we had window seats. The prime rib was excellent (we’ll be eating it for the next 2 days) and the guys seemed to like their new shirts.
We waddled back to our boats and said good night. Tomorrow we’ll leave the marina and head back to a mooring ball. Hopefully, we’ll get some snorkeling in before we have to leave.