{"id":255,"date":"2007-12-08T16:21:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T21:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2007-12-08T16:21:24","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T21:21:24","slug":"bonaire-update-aruba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Bonaire Update &#038; Aruba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a wonderful anniversary last night.\u00a0 The ship was having some sort of barbecue shin-dig for dinner by the pool deck.\u00a0 Jan and I wanted to have a romantic dinner so we ate ashore at a place called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salsabonaire.com\" title=\"Salsa\" target=\"_blank\">Salsa<\/a>.\u00a0 It was wonderful!\u00a0 Had a bottle of a good South African wine and a meal of fish soup, gamba&#8217;s (a kind of shrimp I think) and a curry dish for two with Wahoo, beef, and other stuff I don&#8217;t remember.\u00a0 Topped off with Death by Chocolate.\u00a0 This will probably be remembered as one of our best anniversary meals ever.<\/p>\n<p>Today we are in Aruba after a rough night at sea.\u00a0 Lots of wind, waves and rain but, luckily, neither Jan nor I had problems with it, other than being awakened by waves crashing against the porthole.\u00a0 This morning we took an excursion on a small submarine down to 130 feet depth.\u00a0 Saw glorious fish and coral.\u00a0 Jan and a new friend then went shopping &#8211; something available in abundance in Oranjestad.<\/p>\n<p>We hear about the bad weather hack in the states.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t think our being in a warm place is in any way the cause of the storms.<\/p>\n<p>Next &#8211; two days at sea heading towards Panama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a wonderful anniversary last night.\u00a0 The ship was having some sort of barbecue shin-dig for dinner by the pool deck.\u00a0 Jan and I wanted to have a romantic dinner so we ate ashore at a place called Salsa.\u00a0 It was wonderful!\u00a0 Had a bottle of a good South African wine and a meal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}