An afternoon prepping for the dive trip....
Trip Start
Aug 11, 2005
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Trip End
May 22, 2006
Sharm El Sheikh,
Egypt
Sunday, August 28, 2005
We met the Dive Master, Mohammed and Tita (the man of all trades...housekeeper, waiter, a/c guru) and got ourselves organized for a room and dive gear rental. Since we were first to show up, we got the pick of the rooms and chose space over a double bed. We then took off to kill off the afternoon. We knew that this is an easy task in Egypt as simple things like hitting the Internet café, a supermarket, the bank machine and having some lunch would easily eat up 4-5 hours and it did just that!
We returned back to the boat at around 6pm along with another diver that wasn't part of the charter coming from England. She was a riot: Aino (pronounced I Know) from Finland. A couple of hours later, Jos and Marten showed and eventually everyone arrived. We had a late and yummy supper, a short briefing, a little paperwork and then it was off to bed to rest up for the upcoming dives.
I (Tamalyn) still don't know how I managed to get any sleep that night. I was so keyed up. It was like Christmas Eve for me. Every once in a while, I'd turn to Gerald and say, with a huge grin and a giddy giggle, "We in the Red Sea, we're going to dive the Red Sea! We're really here!" I guess the late night and short sleep the night before turned out to be a great thing for me.
