That means "Welcome" in Papiamento, Aruba's national language. (It's also the only word I learned in Papiamento - most people spoke Spanish and English.) Steve's parents have a timeshare at the
Marriott Ocean Club and generously invited us along for their August vacation. As you can imagine we jumped at the chance!
So yes, I'm back after a week of surf, sand and sun, with a sunburn, a yen for Cuban food and an itch to try making mojitos at home.
Want to see some pictures? Of course you do!
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| Welcome! |
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| Aruban national beer...extremely delicious |
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| A restaurant inland called Papiamento, situated in an old house. Amazing! |
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| Another restaurant, the Flying Fishbone. It's a little hard to tell from the picture, but all of the tables are on the beach and some of them are right in the ocean! |
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| Another view at Flying Fishbone - looking out over the harbor |
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| View from the hotel heading towards the beach |
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| My efforts at being artsy on the beach |
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| Sunset on Saturday night |
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| How can you not like a place they call "One Happy Island"? |
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| My daily view |
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| Giant lizards were running around everywhere...they'll go right up to your table and you can feed them french fries! |
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| Sunset on the beach, Insta-gram style |
It's definitely not easy to be back after a tropical beach vacation! At least now, after 14+ hours of travel back to DC (a combination of Hurricane Isaac, the lovely ground crew at National Airport, and a quirky Aruban airport system that requires you to go through customs and security not once, but
twice) I'm exactly where I want to be after a long trip - laying on my bed, catching up on DVR, wearing my comfy pants with the AC blasting, eating a leftover sandwich.
Now it's on to Labor Day weekend and an upcoming trip to New York!
Anyone else take any fun summer vacations?
xoxo,
b
1 comment:
Looks like you had a great trip! The Flying Fishbone looks like so much fun...I definitely would have wanted a table in the ocean.
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