{"id":123,"date":"2010-10-20T22:02:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T02:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bonaire2010.mcguireclan.org\/?p=123"},"modified":"2014-06-01T13:24:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T18:24:57","slug":"wednesday-10-20-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"20 Oct 2010  Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_135\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1020store1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135\" src=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1020store1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1020store1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-135\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milk in front (sealed in boxes -- refrigerate after opening -- we don't use it to drink),  Cereal to the right and Bread to the left<\/p><\/div>Today I have been a bit lazy, trying to fight off this cold. I am feeling better, so will probably be up to the evening swim tonight.  A good thing about an evening swim, is that we don&#8217;t become sunburned and it is cool and relaxing after a hot day. The water is so clear we can easily see our feet even at 5ft. and the sun down!  It is beautiful.<div id=\"attachment_137\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1020store21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137\" src=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1020store21-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1020store2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fruit is cheaper at this market, but it is prepackaged, but you can't sort out the bad ones!<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>After lunch, I took Larry to the office and then did some grocery shopping.  I took some pictures inside the store for those of you who are interested.  They do carry some American foods for the Americans who are not brave enough to look at the pictures and try something that they may or may not <div id=\"attachment_141\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1020kraftmacaroni2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141\" src=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1020kraftmacaroni2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1020kraftmacaroni\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-141\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If there are two prices, the top is Antillean guilders and the bottom is U.S. dollars<\/p><\/div>recognize.  They are also more convenient so the kitchen doesn&#8217;t heat up quite so much. So far I have not given in and paid the extra money for the convenience.<\/p>\n<p>This morning we discovered that the ants had found our sugar.  They were on the outside of the container after a little sugar which was<div id=\"attachment_142\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1020kroepoek1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142\" src=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1020kroepoek1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1020kroepoek\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-142\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malaysian prepackaged food with Dutch instructions!<\/p><\/div> there.  I changed containers and then washed down the kitchen and sprayed around the windows. Will have to be a little more careful.  I am so thankful that we have not seen cockroaches.  They grow pretty big here and I really do not want to find one, even if my grandsons would love to see it.<\/p>\n<p>We did discover that there is a snake on Bonaire.  It grows to a length of 4 inches, and is only seen at dusk when it  comes out to feed.  It looks like a skinny worm.  I have never seen one of these. I think the cockroaches might be bigger <div id=\"attachment_143\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1020store3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143\" src=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1020store3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1020store3\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-143\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charcoal on the bottom shelves, various candles above that and the rest you look at the pictures to guess what is in the jar or can.<\/p><\/div>than the snake&#8230; well maybe not quite that long, but much wider. I&#8217;d rather see the snake!<div id=\"attachment_144\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1020spices.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144\" src=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1020spices-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1020spices\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-144\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Badia brand Spices<\/p><\/div>   <div id=\"attachment_146\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1020beef1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146\" src=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1020beef1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1020beef\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-146\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beef section<\/p><\/div>  <div id=\"attachment_147\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1020chicken.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147\" src=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1020chicken-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1020chicken\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-147\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicken in the front, hotdogs in the back and assorted in between<\/p><\/div>   <\/p>\n<p>NOTE \u2014 To see a bigger (and in some cases, expanded) version of any of the images in this blog, just click on the one you want to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I have been a bit lazy, trying to fight off this cold. I am feeling better, so will probably be up to the evening swim tonight. A good thing about an evening swim, is that we don&#8217;t become sunburned and it is cool and relaxing after a hot day. The water is so clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10,8],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bonaire-2010","tag-10","tag-bonaire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}