Juriaan will on Thursday at the end of the afternoon first tour of the kitchen from the main restaurant. There are several kitchens for various activities and food: the bread and desserts, fish & meat, for the preparatory work such as cutting and the kitchen with "stoves" where cooking, frying, baking and grilling place. And then he put to work, because there was it started with an afternoon of cooking in the restaurant.
It is Maldivian evening so he can indulge themselves with the curries to be made, the noodles, the samosas and coconut cookies (something between roti and naan-bread but with coconut as the main ingredient). Jur feast their eyes but also the white brigade in the kitchen seems to have not previously a co-host boiling to have had and even the red brigade (operation) is curious and takes a look at the boiling guest.
Just after 19.30, if the restaurant is open and the dinner at the buffet State (and the cooking team continues its preparations for breakfast the dough for croissants to prepare) is Juriaan soaked with sweat at the Sunset Bar . First a bit of a beer to cool off from the kitchen that can exceed 50 degrees hot, and the thirsty, clothe and then see how the buffet in our restaurant (which has much the same menu) is listed. Also the red brigade in our restaurant has heard of Juriaans cooking activities and out one by one to ask how it was. And then we ourselves on the Maledivisiche delights!
On Saturday the alarm early again as we go on our way for a 2 tank dive. The current check by Silvia, Spanish guide for today, is what they desperately: the flow is contrary to what they had expected him (more or less parallel to the reef instead of or incoming or outgoing). We still jump at the place she had indicated earlier in the briefing on the map of the reef known as the illustrious name of Lucky Hell. We have to swim pretty hard after a minute or 5 deep beneath us finally to see the reef, and that while we all sit at nearly 30 meters. According to the briefing we need now only a "piece" to drive along the reef and then we are on the corner where the sharks, eagle rays, barracuda and other big stuff usually sit. But ..... the flow is now still further rotated 90 degrees and we have a strong flow encountered along the reef. And at 30 meters is a threat to Juriaans air consumption. If the angle we did not even have in sight, he is already half the tank around the corner and we decide to leave for what it is and what the upper part of the reef. And after 35 minutes we went upstairs for us is very short, but swimming against the current is not Juriaans thing we know once again.
The second dive also has more flow than last time we were on the same reef (Lucky Rock). The explanation we get for this is that the moon is nearly new and that the movement is at its strongest and that the flow throughout the year in January is always the fiercest, and it's almost January. But we can dive to a large extent these nice drifting with the flow or in the lee quiet shooting, and then we get the weather for one hour with easy to stay on a tank.
After lunch it's time for a swim, read and nap and then at 17.30 Santa Claus on the island. Not with a sleigh with reindeer, but (just like Santa Claus 
) By boat. The beach and pier are filled with guests but as many staff, this is clearly a party for everyone. An hour later, the Christmas cocktail party at the main pool with cocktails but not with gluhwein. And that strange tastes in this climate 
. There is a projector with best wishes for Christmas and New Year, but which can also be used for Christmas karaoke performance of the staff. About 15 staff members, not selected on the vocal qualities bring Silent Night, Jingle Bells, Feliz Navidad and we wish you a merry christmas to sing, backed by the public that the karaoke text to read along and always sing along fanatic.
Then we drink some wine at the Sunset Bar and we go to our Christmas dinner. We ordered a nice bottle of Chilean Chardonnay and shows excellent fit with the lavish, and very tasty, buffet. Really just about everything you can think it says caviar, sushi, beef wellington, various curries, Champagne soup, risotto, salads, cheese platters and a huge dessert buffet with a real eye-catcher of the high profiling sterol caramel tower . After several passages along the buffet you can almost outside our roles, and there we take a coffee!
And then we go to another party in the bar watching. There runs a DJ and not even bad .... Dancing barefoot in the sand on Christmas Eve remains a special experience And tomorrow we'll do it quietly, we'll see what time we wake up and what time we go underwater. It is after all holiday!
