Aruba Day 1

This blog has turned into my diary of all days not normal. Somehow I think if i blogged every day saying today I went to class, went home, studied, ate some food, went to sleep, and expect to do the same tomorrow, this blog would be pretty durn boring. So, when I go somewhere or do something exciting, it finds its way here.

Speaking of which, here Sara and I are at the Westin Aruba. Our Jet Blue flight was on time and the descent into Aruba was super interesting. We were at about 7,500 feet directly above the airport on the island. Then we turned left away from the airport and continued to descend over the island, then over the water, and finally kept turning left until we were lined up with the runway.

We left the plane and went towards immigration. AA, Delta, United, and Continental flights all had recently arrived and the passport control room was packed to the brim. So much so that people were congregating directly in front of the escalator as more and more people were entering the room. I had to say KEEP MOVING FORWARD PLEASE beacuse you can imagine what it would be like if you were at the bottom of an escalator with nowhere to go and scores more people coming at you...

I had a confirmed rental with Budget rentacar, but after giving my license to the rental agent, he told me you had to be 24...not what I heard from Budget on the phone...but luckily there was someone from a different rental company who was waiting for someone just like me to come by. Ten minutes later we were leaving the airport with a newish Hyundai sedan.

We drove to the hotel past the Aruban Parliament building, past Subway, Quizno's, Wendy's, MCD, Pizza Hut, past Ferregamo, and the cruise dock. I was looking for the Outback Steakhouse but couldnt find it... We found the hotel, parked the car and checked in. It was linner/dunch time so Sara and I unpacked real quick and headed down to poolside for some fish sticks (yumster) and tandoori chicken wrap (delish) oh yeah and a margarita and strawberry daq.

Unfortuately, the spray sunblock that Sara got for us was not functioning at all, so we had to run down to the hotel gift shop to get some more sunblock. We looked at all the different kinds and finally bought the $10 kids tear free banana boat SPF 50...after saying uh uh to the $27 (no joke) block. We hung out on the beach for a little bit until the sun was almost gone. Now we're in the room trying to figure out what to do for the night. It's Flag Day here in Aruba so nothing's open. More excitement to come tomorrow...enjoy the pictures









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