Half and half

Arriving in Bonaire, Oasis guest house, Jibe City, wild flamingos and donkeys in the street!

Half and half: Since more or less half the family is international, and the rest of the family is fluent in English, the blog will be more or less half and half English/Norwegian.

Thursday 2nd of January 2020: We arrived early evening at Bonaire airport, a miniature airport, resembling the one in Koh Samui a lot. Flamingosigns everywhere and several of the signposts on surfboards. Getting off the plane the humidity hit us, the most wonderful feeling in the world – it can not get too hot! We were picked up by John, one of the 2 people that run Oasis Guest house. The guest house is a sort of bed and breakfast, a lovely little place with its own pool, located in a calm area outside of Kralendjiik, the capital of Bonaire. John is a volunteer in rescuing Flamingos that blow away from the place they nest and eat before they learn to fly (they can’t fly before their wings cross in the back). He rescued 400 last year, and not surprisingly we are now on “fallen/blown away flamingo outlook” at all times when traveling by car(with Mille-saving the world supergirl orchestrating it), wondering if Mille may just stay on here for the rest of her life rescuing flamingos! Will keep you posted on this!

Friday 2nd of January 2020: Waking up to 30 degrees humid heat is the best after 3 months of darkness and cold back home. After a nice breakfast by the pool, we got into our Hilux, threw our beach, snorkel and surfstuff in the back of the truck and left for jibe city! Love the roadsigns(the one for Jibe City, the surf spot is the middle, handwritten one)

Saturday 3rd of January 2020: Day 2 was due for kids clinic of surf for Noah and Mille, and in the afternoon beginner 2 course for mama. All of us loved it, the children really got the hang of it. Noah advanced to a bigger sail within the first lesson and Mille understood the steering and turning upwinds! And mama learned how to jibe – before Erik! Lucky for me it wasn’t too windy, meaning there was time to understand what I did without being thrown out to sea 😉 We all loved it – this will be costly for Erik! Erik still hasn’t been out on the water, just making sure the rest of us are comfortable first. The real wind is said to be coming on Tuesday when the clouds go away!

Sunday 5th of January 2020: today is a rainy / cloudy day, good for our white/red sunburned selves to relax and catch up with alovera, homework and article studies.