That weather's so hot right now

Dude. It was 89 degrees today with a humidity of 77%. I die.

Another long day. Weird too. I stressed myself out pretty extremely last night, to the point where I was up every few minutes, terrified that I'd get the ascent or descent as my open water skills.

This morning we did a fun dive to the Cayes. Before we took off, I headed over to Rio Coco, which is my new favorite. I had a coffee and the most delicious bagel with avocado. The Cayes are little islands on the north side of Utila. It was about a 40 minute boat ride, and there's a beautiful reef there, and we did a drift dive. Went to a max of about 75 ft for 53 minutes. Good solid dive. It was great to just have fun and not have to stress about skills and problem solving and such.

Then we went to a little restaurant on one of the cayes called Cayeview Restaurant. Clever, I know. The place was not designed for vegetarians, the choices were burger, fish burger, or chicken burger, so I had a plate of fries for lunch.

We were back on Utila proper by 12, and I was home by 12:30. Took a shower, ate a peanut butter sandwich, and sat around stressed about what horrible skills I was going to get assigned. I knew this would happen. I stress when there's nothing I can do, but once I have something to do, I'm good to go. I have my full assignment list, so now I'm excited.

The orientation for the exam started at 6 at Mango Inn, so I got there around 5:30, as did the rest of the class. 3 people aren't taking the exams. 2 people didn't pass their tests, and 1 is taking his in Canada in a few months. So there's 14 of us from the UDC IDC, and a handful from Underwater Vision.

I got assigned a small group; there's only 5 of us (me, John, Marylee, Steven, and Paul) all of whom I've worked with before. The two examiners are guys in their 60's, seem very nice. My group grabbed dinner at Mango since it was right there (split a pizza, it was quite good but I burnt the roof of my mouth) and went over our skills, who's assisting who, etc.

I've got a good set of skills, I'm feeling pretty comfortable with them, as I've done all of them previously in the IDC. We'll see how tomorrow goes!