We just got back from a trip to the Dutch island of Curacao in
the Carribean, spending Thanksgiving week with Denise's brother
Dan and his wife Francelly. Dan works in the American Consulate 
on Curacao six months out of the year - bummer job eh?
	We arrived at night but in the morning got a breathtaking
view of the Spanish Waters at Jan Sofat. Here are a couple shots
off of Dan and Francelly's apartment balcony:



We took a driving tour of the island, and on top of a huge bridge
got a pretty good view of the main city of Willemstad:



On Monday-Thursday, Denise and I were enrolled in a PADI 
Openwater SCUBA course, and after the day divided between 
classroom, pool, and the warm Carribean Sea, we were pretty much 
pooped all week long. One day though, Francelly took us down to 
Willemstad to shop and people-watch. Check out the tourists in 
the background - I think they thought the horizontal drawbridge 
was malfunctioning!



We did go out to some nice restaurants. The most memorable was a 
horse ranch that only serves dinner one night a week, and you 
have to get there before 7pm to hope to get a table. You place 
your order for how many spits of meat you want, and go back to 
your table to talk and sip wine by candlelight. Then the bread 
arrives, and you watch the meat go into the fire. A while later,
your spits arrive, the skewers hanging from a rack over your 
table. Finger food all around baby! Personally, I don't think 
I've ever eaten so much meat as that night. The beef was like 
nothing I'd ever tasted before - from Argentina, I'm told. 
Anyway, here is a shot of Dan and Francelly sitting across the 
table from us over candlelight, just as we were getting ready
to peel ourselves from our seats. :)



Did you know that every native on Curacao speaks four languages
fluently? 

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