Aruba Blue Village Noord

Day 11: Aruba<br><br>Ahhhhh were FINALLY here. After all that traveling, we made it. I'm kissing the ground I&#8217;m standing on right now. I kid I kid. But seriously its so nice to finally be here. Its absolutely gorgeous. We anchored and put our dinghy in the water and headed to town about 5 minute dinghy ride ...

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Dear Blog,<br><br>ARUBA, here I am. Today is day 3 of my cruise and our first stop on dry land. The ship made its way into the port of Aruba at 8:00am this morning. By that time, we were up, had breakfast and on the top deck to view the wonderful landscape of the island. The water was calm as the ship's captain proceeded in maneuvering this gigantic monster of a ship to the pier. The sun was starting to shine through the clouds. Today will ...

I left you yesterday with a little boy snoozing in the afternoon. When he woke up and got spoiled, we went downstairs to inquire about the car. And give the laundry to Ingrid. The owners are in the office. Stanley is writing religious text for the Jehovah's witness magazine, Ingrid is reading their bible. Stanley calls. The offices are closed already. Ingrid ...

... long. It is my dive 150 with dive computer: 117 hours of diving, deepest 43,3 meters, this one it is 26 degrees: COLD!!!!! Everybody but us wear wet suits (some of them doubles). The landscape is not like anything we saw before: almost no sand is seen because of the huge amount of corals. There is a big wreck down there. The visibility is worse than any of dives since the tour. Carlos explains why afterwards ...

After a rough night last night, we decide to head back down to Baby beach before dawn. My husband is insistent in trying to find the missing ring and has already woken up and showered by 5:15 am. I, however, struggle to get myself to do the same. There is something really relaxing about driving on a small island before everyone is up. No traffic on the road and we slowly watch the island come to life as the sun rises. At Baby Beach, we look for the ...

... decorated altar with the Virgin Mary surrounded by flowers. The wooden pews are small, an indication that the original inhabitants [Arawak Indians] of the island were as small as me :) We don't stay too long at the chapel and I'm in dire need of some shade, so we jump in to our jeep and hit the roads through Arikok. Arikok is situated on the eastern coast where the waters are much rougher than Eagle/Palm Beach. As the Wrangler maneuvers us through ...

Now on our third day, we anticipate another full day of relaxation and sun. Aruba has many ethnicities. Apart from Dutch, there are several from South America such as Venezuelan[the coast is 20 miles from the southern tip of the island], Colombian, and Surinamese. There are also, African, Filipino and Chinese. Today we check into the Westin nearby Eagle Beach and pickup our new ride, a ...

... Helen &amp; Les were great, could not have done this without them. Had a great weekend with Dominic ...

The first day in Aruba we decided to do it right and sat on the beach for most of the day. I take that back... at one point in the day we moved to the resort pool for a bit but eventually went back to the beach. After a bit we decided to take a walk on the beach to see the other resorts. Toward the end of the day we decided to sit under the "chickee" and wait for our first Aruba sunset. It was amazing but went down fast. I barely got a picture!