Well, this will probably be short, but we thought we’d make a slightly anti-climactic post about our payment to Blue Ventures for our trip! For those of you who haven’t seen our facebook statuses over the last week, this is to say that we have officially paid off our accommodation and program fees, to the tune of £4142.01 each (that’s about $13 000 CDN for the two of us).  But that includes pretty much everything we’re gonna need while on site (including dive gear, food, beds, experience of a lifetime, &c.) for our 3+ months.

And we’re so unbelievably excited!  The only downside of this is that we have two weeks of exams to get through first.  What a downer.  But knowing that we have this amazing adventure ahead of us will probably fill the “light at the end of the tunnel” role quite nicely.

Oh!  And we bit the bullet and bought an Ikelite underwater camera case for Renne’s Canon.  Since we picked up a little extra (relative term) money from PDAing to some groups at our university, we thought it would be a good investment.  So if we don’t come home with thousands of coral reef and fish pictures, we should be sent back!

So that’s pretty much where we’re at on this sunny Saturday morning!  Not sure what the day has in store (well, most of it will be spent studying) but hopefully we’re able to enjoy the nice weather at some point too.

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