riginally we had planned on doing another two-tank morning dive today, but that has fallen through. Matt had a bit of trouble clearing his ears yesterday and they are not happy with him this morning. If you can’t clear your ears, you really can’t dive. I didn’t figure it was worth the risk of making them worse, but we decided to get breakfast and re-evaluate.

I was ambivalent about the dives. I thought it was fun yesterday, but honestly the Mantas were the best part - well and the out of control dolphins that were cruising around with us and literally riding along at the bow of the boat. The aquatic life wasn’t really as good as Cozumel and I was fine not going again. Matt finally decided that his ears were not going to cooperate and we decided to call it off.

We did the tourist thing and walked along the shops on the main strip, buying a few souvenirs and Kona coffee to take home. After working up an appetite, we got way too much fried chicken at Chicken Holic - it was so cheap that we thought it was going to be tiny portions. Apparently we found the one spot that was a value - ha!

Lunch was promptly followed by a nap. After that, we decided to go get some sun and try the local favorite, Mai Tais! Since we were about the whitest people on the island, we enjoyed our sun under the shade of an umbrella. It was fun to just relax and enjoy the nice ocean breeze blowing in. We have big plans for the morning, so relaxing while we could sounded smart!