High heels, teddy Bears and regulators

Life it's all about moments.
You are 20, and you are packing for the first time to go across the globe.
In your bag pack: your scuba gear, your board shorts and because you are a Woman, always your make up and a pair of high heels (because you never know). Then you spend your first 8 months in Thailand, and you remember that once, you had shoes, and they are there. Hidding underneath your bed, they are green, a new ecosystem is covering them, and just putting them in the trash you think: more space for scuba gear.

But you still a Woman.
So when you come out after a dive with the face full of snot, you check your hair, just in case. ( girls, we are all glamour).
At the dive centre i keep a hair brush, in case I have 5 minutes to try to look like a person, and then when I have 5 minutes, I put as much food in my mouth as I can (always in a very feminine way).

Then 15 years later of your first bag pack, you get pregnant.
In you PADI bag pack, that you keep since your IDC and you love because it's soooo practical, and you can put everything inside, suddenly there is no more space.
A monkey, a milk bottle, nappies, baby towel, etc.... Are taking the space of your sun glasses, bikinis, conditioner and all the scuba girly things that obviously you NEED to survive!

The thing is, that 15 years travelling once taught you that you didn't need things, even been a Woman.
Because I'm a woman that scuba, so a scuba girl, and lately a scuba mum.
So I sit my kid on the floor of the dive centre, that is by far, where I spend most of the time, and he plays. He plays with a mask, some fins and a regulator.
He knows that this things are part of our life.

I thought about this, because lately I had a few student kids.
They are amazing divers.
And sometimes have interesting questions like:
Why the alternate air source it's called like that and not the:
"To share"
Or the: "For friends"????????

And I think that my kid will start soon enough asking me this kind of questions, and I have to be ready for the answers.
Been a CD, don't give you the answers for everything ;-)

For now, just in case, in my bag pack I keep a bikini, a monkey, my mask and dive computer: because you never know, just in case or.... Because I'm a girl in love with the sea.

Happy Sunday