Our dive site was called One Tree Island (from the picture you can understand why). We dove in 40 feet of water around the rocks and island. The visibility was less than the Maldives but still good. We saw some eels, puffer fish, lobsters, napoleon fish and then when we surfaced we saw a school of dolphin swimming all around us. The water was a little colder than the Maldives so we decided to stop at one dive and head back to the hotel.
The Martin family apparently grew up playing scrabble. The Civale family did not. That has led to a rather one sided competition between Amy and Anthony in scrabble where Amy has historically always won (and many times by a large margin). Anthony bought a travel scrabble game and our first contest was at the Banyan Tree. A miraculous thing happened - Amy lost.
And Anthony won
Anthony decided it was best to retire from the game and go out on top.
We took a buggie up to the spa for another treatment. The buggie rides reminded us of roller coaster rides because Banyan Tree was very hilly and there was a lot of ups and downs and we were facing backwards so we never knew when we were going up or down. Amy enjoyed this. Anthony did not.
A drink before the treatment
We got the harmony massage which was quite possibly the best massage known to mankind. It involved two therapists massaging each of us (a total of 4 people) for 90 minutes. Glorious!
We went to hang out at the main pool at the resort for a while. It had great views.
Along the way, we heard some blog feedback from Amy's sister, Leanne. We love hearing people's feedback about the blog, so bring it on. This particular comment was that there were SOOOOO many pictures of Amy, that it got a little boring to keep seeing her sister all the time. So, Leanne, this montage is for you.
We took a stroll on the beach. The Seychelles were very beautiful at night as the sun was going down.
The last night we had a private BBQ at our villa. The food was very good and it was a romantic and private setting.
We left early the last day to catch a helicopter to North Island. But first, we figured out how to use the automatic picture feature on the camera so we could take pictures of ourselves.
The Banyan tree was a fun stop on the honeymoon. It was different than the Maldives. We spent most of our time around the villa with less diving and more reading, relaxing and sun tanning (much to Amy's joy!). Both Amy and Anthony were excited about the final stop on the honeymoon - the exclusive North Island in the Seychelles.
2 comments:
In regards to Scrabble, I noticed that there was a Spanish word as well as slang, both illegal and I hope not played by a Martin who knows the rules!
Ole is actually acceptable in the scrabble dictionary:
OLE ole oles \ n pl. -S a shout of approval
I am still very puzzled on what the "tom_raid" word is supposed to be.
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