Wednesday, June 3,2015

The best part of a vacation in Aruba is that you can count on the weather being beach worthy.  You can't say that about many places you vacation.  Another beautiful morning.  After fixing breakfast for the kids, we all headed to the pool.  This property is huge and the pools span several acres.  There is a waterfall pool with a water slide, a lazy river (my and Kay's favorite) that wanders through beautifully landscaped grounds and bridges.   There are two separate toddler pools as well that are off to the sides and hot tubs in the center of the lazy river tucked into the foliage.  Then after the lazy river there is a swim up bar pool or "sports pool" as they call it and after that almost on the beach is an adults only pool.  The kids liked hanging at the sports pool since they had organized daily activities there everyday.  They had a DJ that would direct the daily schedule and play music.  At 11 AM they had pool aerobics and Kay did this one morning while I was doing things in the "villa" as they are called.  At 1 PM they played pool Bingo and Chris wanted to do this as they had cash prizes.  He played yesterday and didn't win but today he won $10 and it made his day!  They had dance contests one day and the kids loved watching the drunk people try to dance and they actually participated in the Conga Line that was formed one afternoon.  Chris's favorite was playing pool volleyball which he did every afternoon.

 

 

 

Everyday we would try to find a center place of lounge chairs we could call home base for the day where I could keep track of where the kids were and not too far from one of the entrances to the lazy river so that Kay and I would have easy access.  We actually found chairs in the smoking section this day (didn't matter because there were few people smoking and the wind was so strong that you couldn't smell it anyway).  We would have to anchor everything down because the wind would blow it away regardless of how heavy it was.  Generally the breeze Aruba is known for is about a steady 21 mph which actually makes the heat bearable there.  The gusts this week however were blowing at hurricane force...really.  Kay and I thought we had things tied down when a gust came between the two buildings and blew my swim tube so fast that I couldn't even see which direction it went...it was just gone!  I got up to go find it and a security guard was walking across one of the bridges with it!  We had a similar incident with Kay trying to get in her tube when we were getting in the "lackadaisical river" as Kay called it.  We laughed a lot at all this nonsense and the kids laughed at us!  We would float around the river for hours or until we were numb and wrinkled (the kids would say I was wrinkled before I got in..lol) then get out and sun and do it again.  I fixed dinner each night and Kay and the kids (mostly Kay) did clean up...it worked great and was easy.  Chris helped me the nights we went downstairs to grill.  The kids enjoyed watching the sunsets and just generally walking on the beach after dinner and by the time we would get back each night we either played games or sat on the balcony and enjoyed the rustling of the palm trees in the breeze.  We had wifi so the kids could do their phone thing and communicate with their friends.  Most nights all of us turned in early.