The Waiting Room

Wednesday April 26th:

We both had a little too much sun over the past two days, so we decided to do some shopping. Oranjestad, Aruba’s capital city, has tons of places to shop for jewelry and cigars. Women were dragging their husbands and boyfriends from jewelry store to jewelry store, while the men were going into the smoke shops in droves! Naturally, the majority of men going into the smoke shops were American since one could buy Cuban cigars.

We looked at anniversary bans at a couple of jewelry shops. My wedding band began to cut into my ring finger as a result of the RA. Husband thought that would be a nice gift. But the funny thing was every ring we looked at had serious flaws in the diamonds. Husband remembered some of the jewelry rating information from when he bought my ring. So when he started questioning the quality of the rings, the prices began to drop and the salesperson began to show us better quality rings. Needless to say, we decided that we would try to have my old ring fixed when we returned home. But Husband did buy me a nice present.




Movado Kara Women's Two-tone Watch

Of course I had to indulge Husband. He purchased two Cuban cigars. At least he was kind enough to sit downwind as he smoked that night at the bar!