SCUBA DIVING...and today I completed the Open Water Diver - Part I (Pool) course. I had spent last week going through the book and DVD lessons and today it was into the water. It was a very busy day learning to get comfortable with the equipment and being in the water. It was a lot of getting buoyant...getting neutral...clear your ears...regulator out...snorkel in...mask off...mask on...get the water out of the mask...share air...you get the picture. Needless to say, I was the best...well oldest student. Fortunately the instructor was older than me, but just barely.
I did stop by Wal-Mart and got a "swimming camera", but I only got a few pictures. I'm not sure how they will turn out because it was an indoor pool in a building with no natural lighting. This is the facility and a previous class...not mine. But this is what we looked like...
Any way, I'm going to wait until spring break when the grand kids are up to finish the roll and post the pictures. Please come back then...there should be some great pictures of them!
Now like so many things, the challenge is to complete Part II (of II), the Open Water training and evaluation. So I have established the Scuba Marlon fund! You see, the course is $129 and requires me to have my own mask ($50-$75 and possibly lenses for my glasses...another $100), snorkel ($30), fins ($75-$100) and booties ($35). Then the trip cost to the dive site (a lake in Arkansas) is $149. So you can see that to finish and gain my "life time certification" will be about $500!! (Sorry about the inheritance girls.)
Fortunately, there is no rush...and I do expect a reasonable tax return! And of course Father's Day is coming...
2 comments:
Sounds like a fun way to spend a Saturday. Beats lawn work!
And if $500 is all there is to out inheritance, feel free to spend it on scuba. Then, use anything else to take mom shopping, but don't let her buy anything for my kids! :-)
I always wanted to grow up to be a rich kid.
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