Thanks -- always a wealth of great info!
I think DW will do fine but since it has been a few years it probably isn't a bad idea to work in slowly. DW has been nothing but calm in other less than ideal situations (e.g. diving in 10' vis/high current with Manta Rays off Bora Bora, emergency air sharing situation on her first night dive when my rented reg (my rig blew a seal earlier in the day) blew the HP line at the gauge -- talk about low viz because of all the bubbles and I very very quickly had no air --but she was cool and collected we took our time with a nice ascent and safety stop)
And we prefer morning dives so it sounds like that should work nicely. We are going on vacation first and diving second -- so I am prepared for less than stellar diving. We normally go on our "beach vacation" in April (before hurricane season and after peak $$ season) -- but couldn't get away this year until now. So we choose Aruba (never been) due to the location outside the normal hurricane belt (vigorous knocking on wood).
Maybe we'll fall in love like others on the board and return for years to come.....