Getting Ready for Thanksgiving:

Well the guest staying with us this week at Coral Paradise Resort will well fed this Thursday, Thanksgiving Day.

A couple who stayed with us only 5 weeks ago decided to come back down for Thanksgiving week and put on a feast.

Bill & Sherry with son Jesse are going to cook up a storm for all of the guest and a some friends on the Island.

I will have some photos on the blog after the event.

Below is some of the foods they will be preparing.

2 Roast Turkey's, Brown Sugar Ham (Spiral Sliced), Corn Pudding, Glazed Sweet Potatoes. Mac & Cheese, Stuffing-Traditional, Stuffing-Cornbread, Cranberry Sauce, C resent & Parker House Rolls, Cheesecake, Apple Pie & Pumpkin Pie

Happy Thanksgiving to All

Coral Paradise Resort congratulates  Tuomo Laaninen & Laura Sarkkjmen

who celebrated their Honeymoon with us while staying in Bonaire.

Tuomo & Laura are from Finland and are active Divers

We loved having them stay with us at Coral Paradise Resort and had a lot of fun with them.

If you ain't ever had um you do won't understand what I'm talking about. 

A few weeks later Patrice called me  to come over to the restaurant and that he had something for me. When I arrived he handed me a gift, two dozen raw oysters that he had ordered for me and had flew in from France. WOW.

Well I had never eaten oysters from France but as I had this opportunity and I was going to make the most of it. I went shopping at a few stores to get what I was looking for: Horseradish, Tabasco, Worcestershire sauce, lemon, and Saltine crackers. No Dixie beer in Bonaire but I had some Polar's & Corona's in the fridge that worked just fine. I didn't have my oyster knife with me (lost in Katrina) as I though I would see an oyster again but I improvised screwdriver and a couple of knives. Interesting note when you shuck European Oysters start from the opposite end away from the hinge. Use a sharp knife and cut towards the hinge.

Man let me tell you the Oysters were Salty and Oh So Good, the perfect size. It was such a feeling of New Orleans, for a while I thought I was at Acme Oyster House in the French Quarter except I was under my Palm Trees in the Caribbean at our resort. Freaking Awesome... 

Patrice thank you so much. I'll end with with I started with:  If you ain't ever had um you do won't understand what I'm talking about.

Grace Spath was certified this week as a PADI Junior Open Water Diver. Grace did all of her classroom & confined water work in the states. When she arrived at Coral Paradise Resort in Bonaire she did her mandatory 2 days of diving and 4 dives with Brenda and myself.

While we were underwater on dive #3 an eagle ray just happened to fly by only 3 feet from us. I think the ray actually winked at Grace as to acknowledge what a good student she was in his world under the sea. What a memory to have on your open water certification dive.

During the rest of their stay we did several shore dives and boat dives with her favorite dive-master Lutti, finding octopus, frogfish, seahorses and many other varieties of sea life that Bonaire has to offer.  

This is the 3rd trip that Grace and her parents have stayed with us at Coral Paradise Resort and I am proud to to be her certifying instructor here in Bonaire.

Kenny Treadaway