Our Trip

We're back from Aruba!! we had a great trip. It went by fast, but I felt ready to come home. Rod wanted to stay 2 more weeks. That might have been pushing it for me! We were there for 1 week, with warm weather but not real sunny. We still managed to get sunburned the one day while being rained on! It was very refreshing to get away and spend time with Rod. We celebrated our 7 year anniversary. We had lots of fun & much needed time together. We snorkled 3 different times. We've done this before but it was a lot better this time, cause we brought our own snorkling gear with us, so we could go on our own instead of the guided tours. We had so much great food. most of our meals we're outside which i love. The one restaurant was on the beach, right by the water. some tables the water would come to their feet when the waves came in. We also did lots of sight seeing. We rented a vehicle and went all over the island with this thing. Lots of off roading, which apparently is legal. it felt weird though! You can imagine the adventures Rod had us on with this poor vehicle, which luckily was 4 wheel drive!

We felt very blessed to be able to do this trip & are so grateful to our family for taking on the boys while we were gone. It was amazing to see God's Creation, so beautiful and creative. From the fish and birds, to the water and waves, to the trees and cactus. Here's a few pics.....

These flamingos were on our beach, about 7 of them, just walking around. They were so cool!!

That's me out there waving...the water is so blue-green. pictures don't do it justice. This is our resort. we took a boat ride out to "our beach" (only our resort could use this beach), it was actually a seperate little island, about a 5 minute boat ride. Peaceful and quiet beach......other then the fact that the airport was right beside it!!
Windy!! while off roading we found so many beautiful things around the island. This is the very north end of the island. This is the other end of the island. The island is only 16 miles by 9 miles (something like that), so we literally covered the whole island.

We brought these green floatie things with us from home. I'm so glad we did. We used them a lot! This is the pool at the resort.

Rod was pretty pumped about this meal....5 different meats, with 3 sides! It was an argentina grill.

Eating along the beach......ahhhhh, I'll stop here...