Geo Caching in Aruba

Trip Start Apr 08, 2009
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Trip End Apr 19, 2009


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Friday, April 10, 2009

I slept before 10pm last night and woke up early. By 6am I made breakfast and prepared lunch to take with us. I was eating breakfast when DH woke up and joined me. After breakfast he wanted to walk along the beach. I decided to go swimming so I went with him. There was nobody swimming yet but there were a few people strolling. DS joined me followed by DD1. We were surprised to see some wave action but the waves were not too big nor too small. The kids enjoyed body surfing. We swam for > 2 hours.
 
We went Geo Caching this morning. We went to workman's cache first but the cache was right in the tent area. We chose not to look for it. We wondered what with those tents? It reminded us about the tent city on Oahu. We proceeded to look for the Divi Tree Cache and we found it. Then we went to the beach in front of the Amsterdam Manor. It was crowded. We went to the California Lighthouse Eagle Beach
Eagle Beach
 . We've been there before but this time we were geo caching. We took picture of the lighthouse again and the view of the high rise hotels and the ocean. Then we went to looked for the Postcard Cash. The coastline view on the way to the cache was awesome. Once again we found the cache. We proceeded to look for the Tierra del Sol cache. We went to Tierra del sol golf course only to find out that it was not on the golf course. We went back to the lighthouse and made a turn towards a desert area were we found the cache. It was another fantastic site. DS said we're closed to the Wishing Rock cache and might as well look for it. After a rocky climb we found the cache. We enjoyed the view of the ocean. We made our own wishing rock before we left. Then we headed to Seroe Colorado for The Other Lighthouse Cache. The kids had a hard time looking for the cache until we realized there was a trail going down. They found the cache while I continued taking pictures. I've notice that there is another natural bridge in the area. We went to Baby Beach. I can't believe the improvement this beach had since we were there two years ago. The place was crowded and a lot of people were camped out. We realized that people were setting up for the weekend's wet and wild beach party. So we turned around and proceeded to go to find the Grapefield cache. On the way we stopped to take picture of the giant red anchor and the Bachelor's Beach were people were kite surfing. We were unable to continue with our search because there where people camped out at the exact location where the cache was hidden Loving the paella.
Loving the paella.
 . We had lunch and stopped by Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto. Then we went back to our hotel to freshen up.

We went downtown to have dinner at Baryo Fiesta, a Filipino Cuisine. I really want to have the shrimp sinigang but they don't have anymore shrimp dish available that day. They also have karaoke that was so loud it could break your eardrum. We told the receptionist that we'll come back next time. We went to Casa Tua instead. The food was delicious. Even the zuppa frutti mare was really good. The kids had pizza and they love it. They want to eat there again.

We walked around downtown Oranjestad before heading back home.
 
When we came back to our room, we've notice that our patio furnitures were switched to a nasty looking one. It looks like the neighbor has ours. We called the desk and spoke with the supervisor Lauren. She said that they did not do any switching of furnitures and will look into it tomorrow. Ya...ya...ya!
 
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