The Waiting Room

Monday April 24th and Tuesday, April 25th:

We spent both days just lounging on the beach. The beaches in Aruba are simply beautiful. The sand is pure white, which is nice on the feet. The water is a clear aqua and feels like bathwater. It’s was a bout 85 degrees with the wind blowing about 30 miles and hour. As Husband and I were swimming, he suddenly stops and yells “Holy shit, look at that!” There were two purple-blue fish, about 2 ½ feet long, swimming along with us. Way cool!

We spent the rest of the time lounging and reading. I read all of The Fifth Horseman, by James Patterson on Wednesday. Husband read Hemingway’s “The Nick Adams Stories” for the millionth time. It's his favorite book. Of course we made sure to rotate or go under the umbrella when necessary. Naturally, we made several trips to the Bunker Bar. The Bunker Bar is a bar set up right on the beach. So, frozen beverages were readily available!

We ate at the Italian restaurant both nights. Absolutely yummo food! And lots of wine!

On Monday night, we took the shuttle, which is a large golf cart, to our hotel’s sister resort to check out the casino. Neither one of us is much of a gambler, but we thought it might be fun. Well, $40.00 worth of quarters and an hour later, we were bored and broke. So it was back to the pool bar to enjoy some live music and some frosty beverages! On Tuesday night, we watched a Salsa dance troupe perform at the hotel. God, I wish I could do that!

What really amazed me was the number of American families traveling with small children. I kept wondering how these people were able to afford this kind of trip. I know it cost us about $3500.00 for the two of us (Thank God for Husband’s end of year bonus!), so I can’t imagine how a family of four or more could possibly pull it off? Whatever happened to packing the whole tribe in the family truckster and heading cross country to see the second largest ball of twine?

Oh yeah, we ran into Fred again. He was still begging us to buy a timeshare!