ARUBA: Home Bound

After about a 12 hour layover in Dulles Airport, we have finally boarded our plane.   We decided to sleep in the airport to save money...and because we only took cash and no credit cards and we were running low on funds.  We had to make sure we had enough moolah for the BART ride home then a taxi from the train station.  ...and we thought we were being smart by not taking a credit card...

Although we truly loved Aruba, we are very happy to be back home in the States.

Until next time....


Bon Bini

ARUBA: Time for Good Bye

Today is our last day on the island and it about 4.5 hours we fly back to the United States.

We are both very sad to leave but we must go!  We definitely would love to come back here again this time with friends or family or both!

Aruba is so beautiful!  

Bon Bini!!

ARUBA: God's Creations

It's unfortunate but one of the blogs I wrote is still trying to"publish".

Rather than waiting on blogger, I'll give you a short and sweet posting for Monday's excursion.  On Monday we had our second excursion.   There were a few stops we already saw on our first excursion like the California lighthouse and the natural bridge.  The new landmarks we saw were the bat cave which is the Guadirikri Cave in Arikok National Park and Baby Beach.  Baby Beach took our breath away! It was A M A Z I N G!  I'll let the pictures speak for the beach!

Lunch was provided to before our catamaran snorkeling tour.  On the snorkeling tour we were taken to two spots, one along the beach and the other at a shipwreck.    At both spots we saw beautiful fish, big and small, long and short.

Afterwards we were taken back to our hotel played a game of pool and knocked out around 730 pm or 8 pm.

It was so beautiful on Monday...we had to stop and recognize God for His glorious creations! !

ARUBA: Relax, You're in Aruba

A relaxing day soaking in the sun, Hubby and Wifey having so much fun.  Soaking and bobbing in the Caribbean sea, sun kissed skin, brown and tanned, sitting at the poolside bar just listening to the band.  There's no one else in the world but you and me.  Two snoffycobbs, drinking coffee at the mall, one carmel machiato, please make it a tall. Go home now, get ready for a nice meal.  Let's watch Law and Order: SVU and Forensic Files, Let's walk to Madam Janet, it's only 3 miles.  I love you honey it's just how I feel.

ARUBA: Vargas Wondering in the Desert for 90 Minutes

Our laundry master plan was executed.  I know, the idea of washing clothes doesn't sound like a good idea while on vacation.  At first, I didn't like the idea either, but it's tiring lugging bags of clothes and shoes and whatever else that's never used while on vacation.  We got up about 7am, ate, and began washing our clothes.   In the mean time we got ready for the day, bought coffee and went to the convience store downstairs.  We also got wrapped up in a good movie; and for us since we don't have t.v. at home, it's actually a nice treat to sit down and zone out.  I don't know the name of the movie but the producer was David Russel and the main male actor was the guy who starred in Limitless (another excellent movie by the way). 

Hubby had picked out Bushiri Karting Speedway as something he'd like to do.  We zoomed along the race track, felt the hot wind, and smelled gasoline for 20 minutes.  We both enjoyed the racing.

We then went to Phillip's Animal Park where we fed cute animals!

We then took a cab to the Renaissance mall.  We noticed there wasn't much activity when we got there.  ARGH! It was a $15 dollar cab ride to a closed mall.  We should have read the signs, literally.  On Sundays most stores were closed.  Because we both didn't want to spend more money to get home we decided to walk.  We walked under the blistering Aruban sun, battered by the Caribbean winds and was pelted by the sands.  For 90 minutes we bickered and disregarded our number one goal as we walked to our hotel.  What was the point of doing that to each other especially on our honeymoon?  How self-centered and prideful.  During times like these it's nice to know your spouse knows they are held accountable to God; because of it the love is much sweeter, and forgiving. 

By the way, we walked 3.1 miles.

It was another good day.

ARUBA: One Dusty Vargas

We went on our first Aruba excursion with De Palm Tours to the natural pools.  The pool is located in Arikok National Park.  The ride was like a 40 minute, hot, dusty, simulated Universal Studios ride.  We were able to take a dip into the blue pool but we opted not to.  We instead took pictures of the surroundings and talked to a very nice lady who came to Aruba for her 40th wedding anniversary.  We then travelled to one of Aruba's natural bridges and Aruba's oldest church.  After the church we circled around the California light house and made our way back to the hotel. 

By the way, if you ever thought holding a full open can of soda on a jerky ride is a good idea, it's not.  I didn't think to consider the ride home before opening the soda - the poor people in the back.  Well, I guess I shouldn't feel too bad.  When the excursion was over, we had a 5" thick layer of dirt on our face.  "Don't worry my friend, it's a free $100 face mask treatment like the kind you get at the spa." Oh, well in that case cake it on!

We were told Gianni's had awesome Italian food.  Although I really don't like Italian food, Hubby does.  His eyes lit up at the thought of good Italian eating so we had dinner there.  You know how my food was, so you can guess how excellent Hubby's was.  He had a four cheese pasta that was just so mm mm good!  He let me try some of his delicious food.

After dinner we went searching for Starbucks.  Our smiles were ear to ear at the sight of Starbucks.  Mmm, coffee from Starbucks on Aruba just seems better.  It may be better because of the romantic atmosphere. 

Before heading to the hotel, we caught a water show.  

It was another wonderful day.