Day 21 - July 17th

I had today off, which was a nice break. It was absolutely beautiful out, no clouds and a light breeze. Richard and I were able to be dropped in town where I got to do some souvenir shopping and shopping for me. I also got to get a picture of the official swim start and run end of the ironman world championships which is held here in Kona in October. Its pretty cool to envision all the people starting this crazy race.

I'm excited for Wednesday, we're going on another two tank and it will be my nitrox dive, and I get to take the videocamera underwater!

Also we planned an awesome trip for Thursday and Friday, Richard, Jack (new guy) and myself are flying over to Oahu early Thursday and going to go to the Pearl Harbor museum and on Friday we are doing something so absolutely amazing (Jim did it the other day and he was impressed and according to Martina its hard to impress him). However I cannot divulge the details of what we will be doing until after Friday because I was told by my mother that if I am going to do anything dangerous I shouldn't tell her about it until after its done and I'm safe. :o)

Also, for all those that could access the first Manta Video, here is another one. This was from last Thursday when there were 17 Mantas. While its nowhere near experiencing it for real, you can see how amazing it is when there are alot of them swimming around! Enjoy!

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v142/GinnyS/Hawaii/?action=view&current=bestmantassofar.flv

(remember: The site requires Flash 8 or newer to play the video properly. Go to http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer to get it!