Today was very nice.  We decided to take it easy and not drive too much, like the last two days have been.  So we picked a beach and went there for its great snorkeling, great boogie boarding and great swimming.  All that stuff was really great -- there just wasn't any sun!  Yep, it's true.  As we sat on the beach, we looked around us, and there was a circular cloud above us that pretty much covered ONLY our beach.  We kept thinking it would go away, but when we finally left around 3:00pm, it was still there!  But actually, it was a blessing because it kept us from getting burnt.  We are both just slightly pink tonite, and not hurting from the sun.  The boogie boarding was MUCH tamer -- the waves, instead of being about 6 feet tall, were about 1 1/2 feet tall...  Almost boring.  But after the other day, we completely enjoyed the relaxing waves!  And both of us rode a few waves all the way into the sand.  I was out deeper, just lying on my board enjoying the rocking waves, but I suddenly remembered a program I watched where the sharks thought people on boogie boards looked like turtles and took a taste.  I got sort of freaked out as I remembered that, so I didn't stay out there very long.  We also went snorkeling.  There was a great coral reef at the south end of the beach with live coral of many different varieties and colors, and lots of fish.  It was really neat!  Unfortunately, I was still a little bit freaked out about sharks (I have no idea why) so I didn't want to go out too far where more coral was.  We were just about to quit when we saw a sea turtle!  It wasn't very far away, so we followed it for a few minutes, and actually got so close I thought we'd be able to touch it.  But we didn't.  Then we saw a second sea turtle cavorting with the first one.  It was the coolest thing!

We went to another beach so we could get some sun and warm up a little bit, and stayed there for an hour or so.  Then we came home to cook supper.  We stopped on the way at a surfing beach that's just a few minutes from where we're staying and watched the surfers.  The waves were fairly big -- bigger than I'd want to take on -- and it was quite cool watching all the surfers!  It looks like such a fun sport, but I think you'd have to be a pretty strong swimmer or you could get pretty exhausted and drown pretty easy...

When we got home, Perry came into the kitchen and found a tiny little tail-less gecko on our fridge!  We took some pictures, and then he carried it outside.  Perry was so cute -- as he was carrying it out he said (in a cute little high voice) "Ok, I'm going to take you outside now, little lizard-guy..."  It was the cutest thing ever!!

And for New Years, we are staying here in our cute little flat, watching a movie. I know we're sort of boring, but neither of us are party animals, and we don't know anyone here. And the other thing is that we don't really want to be somewhere where we have to drive back and risk getting hit by a drunk driver... So here we are.

Happy New Years to all of you, our wonderful family and friends!! We hope your year of 2007 will be the best one yet!