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Archive for the ‘Friends + Family’Aug 13, 09 Comments (0)
 Emily Good morning all. I always try and send photos of those who are staying with us and the things they are doing which brings us to your photo of the day taken by our friend Michelle. This is Emily who by the way is now back home taking a little ride on the dolphin express! Emily stayed with us for five weeks volunteering at the Sea Aquarium. Each day she went in with Aimee and helped out with what ever needed to be done no questions asked and like many others gave up her little bit of free time to help the stranded whale. Her parents came here as well for a week, we didn’t seem to get to do very much with them as we were just so busy but I think they had a great time just the same. She got to do her first dive ever a few days ago with the stingrays, sharks and turtles and then a dive with Aimee and her dolphins, it was kind of a tiny payback for all the help. We really enjoyed having her stay with us and wished she could have stayed longer but with a bright future ahead as a Vetenarian she still has lots to do. So once again Emily thanks again for everything, your one in a million and will be missed!
As I type this out Aimee is still over at the whale, she left at 3:30 in the morning!! I worked yesterday and went for a fast 17 mile bike ride after. There is a race on Sunday but not sure yet if I will join, again it’s a mountain bike race with half of it on the road, not much fun!
Have a great day everyone and thanks for the comments you all are great people! Barry
12-8-2009
Aug 10, 09 Comments (0)
 Beautiful Bride Good evening gang, I already received a bunch of mail wanting a wedding photo so here you go. This is Sorayda. Some of you on the list may remember this name and face (how could you forget) from a photo I took of her a while back holding a starfish in her bikini in the waters at Baya. I work with Sorayda and her brother Kenji and have even been night diving with her father, to say they have a super family is an understatement! As you can imagine or may have guessed she is a model and has been on the cover of countless covers. Her new husband Ryan is quite the lucky man I am sure hearts are breaking all over Curacao as word travels she is now off the market! The wedding was held at the historic 1800’s Ascension Landhouse located on the north coast. I am not a big wedding fan but this was really fun, much like my friend Dave’s wedding I went to a while back in the States. They had a short wedding ceremony followed by great food and drinks and then her brother Kenji cranked up the jams and the party was on! I ended up shooting for six hours until finally my feet and back had enough and then ever so quietly disappeared into the night for a long drive back home. So congratulations once again Sorayda and Ryan you two make a beautiful pair!
I again had to drag myself to work from complete exhaustion and to make things worse it was another crazy busy day!! I am planning on going diving one more time tonight to see if there is any spawning, I heard it wasn’t that great last night.
Have to get moving, need more coffee, Barry
10-8-2009
Jul 4, 09 Comments (0)
 Family Photo at Canoa Good evening all, by overwhelming request for a year or more here is a recent photo of our little family! To say this was a difficult picture to take would be the understatement of the year. I had the camera on a tripod, timer set to 20 seconds and then I would run and try to get myself in the picture, you just can’t believe how hard this was with four dogs and having to climb a little cliff each time!! Inca was by far the best she never moved an inch the whole time, she is now so trained to stay and wait for me to take her picture no matter how long it may take. The puppy Aimee is holding we have temporarily named Brave Heart, and the other with the bird design on her chest is little Raven and of course Aimee’s pride and joy Indi. You can kind of see our Curacao Flag Day shirts everyone in Curacao had these on Thursday it was quite the site. I hope this is to everyone’s satisfaction as you won’t get another for at least a year as I hate to have my photo taken, runs in the family!!
I just got back home from a walk with the dogs and had a close encounter with a local island man! We were out on the trails behind the aquarium when this local island man came walking down a dirt road holding two big rocks! Well playful Indi immediately ran to him (not barking) to say hi but he was frozen in fear thinking Indi and Inca were going to attack although neither dog ever let out a bark! He had his arms up ready to throw the rocks at the dogs and in the loudest voice I could muster I said “throw that rock and your a dead man”!! This guy was psycho! He was yelling “call em off”, “call em off” I was yelling put the rocks down and stop yelling and they will stop bothering you, your just drawing attention to yourself! It was a real mess but ended up turning out alright! I finally calmed him down and showed him that the dogs are as nice as dogs get and Indi just wants to play, she doesn’t want to bite you! He told me he has problems all the time with wild dogs attacking him, I told him maybe if your not so defensive in the beginning they may leave you alone? So in the end as we parted I made him pet Inca and Indi and remember these two dogs if he passes thru here again. That’s a big heads up to you others that walk my trails that these locals who are scared of dogs are very unpredictable so be careful!
The rain we got was so great!! It was overcast most of the day and rained all over the island we really need it. We still have both puppies, please help us find homes!! Happy Fourth of July, Barry
04-07-2009
Mar 1, 09 Comments (0)
 Dutch Island Girl Hey gang, here’s a fun story. This is Sharon and she is on her way as I type to visit a lucky friend of ours who lives in Rapid City, South Dakota. Actually she is meeting him in Salt Lake City first and then I think they may eventually head back up to Rapid after seeing the sights along the way. Who is this mystery man you ask?? It’s our good friend Luke Kretschmar! Yes many of you on my list know Luke and know how great he is! Well for the past few month’s I have been playing “match maker” and I think I have done pretty well if I do say so myself, they are going to make a great pair! Sharon is from Holland and loves snow-boarding and skating so those of you who know Luke know that’s right up his alley! So tomorrow they meet for the first time ever face to face, is that cool or what?? I wanted all my Rapid friends to know about this in advance so you can really welcome her when you see her around town, will try to keep you posted just in case you can stop by and say hi!! Have a great time you two!! I did go back to work today, I felt pretty good other than the hurting foot but even that is getting better. It’s very late for me almost midnight, talk to you tomorrow, Barry February 2, 2009 SITE MAP
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