Bon Bini!

I am trying to come up with a viable reason for moving to Aruba. Look at this place - would YOU ever want to leave here?? It has actually rained twice since we've been here, but only for a half hour at a time, and the sun is so strong that 15 minutes later everything is dry again!

Maybe it's just that I have never been anywhere tropical, but this is truly paradise. Every day is 85 degrees and partly cloudy. 85 is usually way too hot for me, but there's a perfect, cool sea breeze that makes you feel like you could sit outside in that weather for the rest of your life and never have to move. At night the breeze stays and the temperature drops to 75 - you are comfortable in pants and a t-shirt anywhere you go.

We haven't done much else besides sit on the beach/poolside so far - and, of course, hit up every Happy Hour we can find. It's been a little foggy of a trip so far from that perspective. The food is incredible. The other day I had Sole (the fish) wrapped around bits of crab and shrimp with a lobster sauce on top. I have never in my life had something that delicious! We tried to go mini-golfing today - I know, but I love it and it's been so long since I last went - but for some reason the place closes down on Wednesday. Instead we went downtown and had dinner at this neat little Italian restaurant right on the water. Everything here is open air - the restaurants, the "malls", everything. Fresh air everywhere you go. Tomorrow or Friday we're going to take a "Jeep tour" which basically consists of off-roading with a guide to places where you can go snorkeling in the reef and things of that nature. I only wish my camera could go underwater!

Back home (and to reality) in a few days... not looking forward to it, but "nothing gold can stay." I suppose this wouldn't seem like paradise if I lived here all the time - though our cabbie was born and raised here and says he can't find a place in the world he likes better (and he's traveled - he must make a killing here!). Funny, next weekend I'll have pictures of me snowboarding with the Lahey crew, ha!

Speaking of pictures, some of the Aruba pics are up on Webshots already: http://community.webshots.com/album/541795816OcPSud Enjoy!