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TeamFun goes to Aruba 2008

Last October we started sparing for our first 2 week vacation ever. We set our sights on Aruba in September... kids are in form- so not there- and Aruba's out of the hurricane belt. Tinpot airfare, cheaper room rates. Sublime! Bought the plane tix in Feb and in March rented 2 weeks at a timeshare (Aruba Ground Club, aka ABC http://www.arubabeachclub.net/) justice on the beach next door to where we stayed our last visit. Manchebo ground, the most beautiful beach I've ever been to (and I've been to a lot!). By June we had secured a Wrangler for our deferment.

We left Sat Sept 13. USAir, no problems and no care for baggage. First in line thru immigrations at the airport, too. Whoohoo! On the oblige to the timeshare, everything was familiar. It was a great concern. Dropped the bags off did a little bit of unpacking, then off to the grocery cumulate to stock up on beer, coffee, Dutch cheeses, fruit, salad fixings and more beer. We'd already scored big at Loyalty Free on our stop over in Charlotte. ;-)

Mike woke us up wonderful early (6am) on Sun 14th. Made coffee... but uh oh.... coffee pot out of whack! Gah! Called housekeeping, left report, then front desk, no housekeeping in. Went over to Dushi Bagels, this bantam bagel and coffee shop decent behind the ABC, got 2 large coffees, and my goodness it was sooo aweful!! I create it was sewage, not coffee. Back at the room cooked up some breakfast, then at the last moment around 9am we gave up the wait and hit the beach, cooler full of Balashi & kiwi.

Speaking of Balashi, http://www.balashi.com let me legitimate say we LOVE THIS STUFF. It's brewed on the isle, right next to the world's biggest desalination bed out. So in essense, you're drinking the Caribbean when you quaff Balashi! LOL! In fact, in the native parlance, Papiamento, Balashi means 'our the best quality'. Cool huh? (and Papiamento translates to 'talk much', hehe). This pic of me holding a starch was taken on the north side of the island, but where was I... Right-mindedness okay first day at the beach. I wrote out a zillion situate cards and we went swimming about 100 times. The soak was much warmer than it was on our last visit, which was over 06/07 New Years. It was definitely spectacular. Even Carbo enjoyed himself.

We had Palapa 27 all but one coast day. We were very fond of that particular spot. That day we red the beach around noonish in search of football. We first tried the Alhambra casino, which sits behind the ABC. It's a craptastic casino, there's like zero ventilation. But they only had the Giants game. We ended up at the Hyatt in the 'elated rise area'. We much prefer the 'low succeed area' where we stay, the beaches are far excellent, there are waaaaaay less people, and you can get a palapa at any antiquated with no hassle (or fee). Of course the grounds at the Hyatt were excellent and extravagant, as was the darn bar bill!!! We met a link from Chicago celebrating their 1st wedding anniversary and had a extensive time hanging with them watching the Giants. We didn't find New England or the Bears and we didn't slow for more than the first game. That day Zambrano pitched the Cub's first no hitter in 36 years, yay! Left side there and headed to Jamaica Me Crazy in search of a familiar we made last time, but they were closed, so we hit the open market that happens on Sat and Sun. Mike got me this super, wonderful, awesome white bedeck, that was such a perfect fit I cried when I put it on (I had lost 23lbs since Feb, so I was dividend stoked). We found a painting also from a local artist that we Non-Standard real liked, but decided to hold off until the next weekend to upon sure we wanted it (and we did, and we got it, LOL). Joe (the guy selling the artwork) said that the artist lives in San Nicholas. I had precisely read "An Island Away" which is a untried that takes place on Aruba, mostly in San Nicholas, so off we went that incessantly to check it out. There's a bar there that's a sort of legendary holiday-maker spot, Charlies Bar. Well that was closed too. D*&n Sundays! LOL Dog-tired is legal on Aruba, but really it's only 'tolerated' in San Nicholas, so you can dream up us driving around after dark getting accursed in this town, haha. Got a cool attempt of Charlies Bar and the moon though. Mike was a bit on a tightrope driving around San Nicholas at night, but I had some balls in me after reading the book. I did not feel threatened. Of progress even so, I'm glad our Jeep didn't break down or anything, hahaa!
On the way back, driving around kinda irremediable but at least knowing we were heading in the right bearing (aka: ocean is on our left, LOL), we ended up at a bar that was so resident, the employees spoke only a couple of English words. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is legitimate crazy for the island, as most natives indicate as it were three languages, and a good many speak 4, 5, and 6 languages! The put out was called Vadero (or Veradero?), and it was a marina bar. We met a woman named Deta who was really bold, we had great conversation with her, she translated for us, and the grub was excellent. We split a conch entree, in this wonderful impudence. We tipped too much, since they gave us Florins as substitution for our American dollars, and we were not yet used to the reciprocity rate. haha, oh well. At least we made the mistake in thier favor, they were considerate people.
We stopped at Pinchos bar/restaurant on the way back. It's on a quay off of a beach. Nice nice in order, but we just stopped for a couple drinks. The proprietress approached us, since we asked for 1800- which they didn't have- turns out she's looking to spread her tequila selection and so she asked us all about our tequila tastes. Seems that she's bias more toward Patron. Oh well what can you do.
Monday Sept 15, it was a wonderful day. We wearied the whole day, like 9am till 4pm, on the beach. We had lunch at Tortuga's, the swimming-pool bar at ABC. We got pan fried grouper atop cesear salad, with territory made dressing. People, I exaggerate not one bit when I say this was the outwit ceasar salad I have ever had, and the most impressive dressing EVER. And WHO KNEW grouper was so freakin' astonishing??! Here are some more pics from that wonderful day.....

Like here's our run-of-the-mill breakfast spot, on our balcony (we had a gas stove top to cook on) Here's me sporting the neat new wrap Mike got for me at the open bazaar. Let me tell you, I was sorta bummed that I did not mislay all the weight I wanted to for this trip, but I was very constituents with my body and that really makes everything wiser. Thank the Goddess for Weight Watchers!!! Yay!!!!

So at 4pm that day we hand the beach to clean up and then walk the 1.3 (or so, hah!) miles up the lakeshore to the Amsterdam Manor Beach bar, as every Monday there's a Communiqu Board happy hour cocktail there. See, I am a member of aruba-bb.com, where all involved are bewitched to the extreme with the island, and that's almost all we talk about. It's been an extraordinarily valuable resource in our planning. One warning is the advice for the Jeep rental place. The cost wa excellent, ya know? So I asked about the whole affliction. True to word, Ricky at More For Less rentals was top grade. More on that later. Here's a sweet sunset pic from that appropriate hour. Oh and by the way it was a fantastic walk up the shore and back. Here's one of my favorite pics of Mike ever, enchanted on that walk back.

Toyota Bandeirante in a quick dive

homemade jeep snorkel: Testing a rest-home made snorkel to my Band (OM314turbo). video by Douglas.

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