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Let me give you a run-down of our day...

 

The day started out pretty cloudy with a few little showers.  It didn't start clearing up until around noon.

 

Then we went parasailing!  It was AWESOME.  I didn't even get scared and took some pictures with my underwater camer because I didn't know if parasailing involved getting wet.  Literaly like the best thing we've done here and one my personal top 10.

 

After that we decided to try snorkeling.  They have a lot of tourist boats off the coast toward the lighthouse.  We decided to buy snorkeling gear instead of renting it so that we could explore all the different areas of the island - they have a lot of wreckage within easy swimming distance.  We drove until we saw the boats and tried it.  I pretty much got it on the first try but poor Stephen was struggling with his mask - it was quite entertaining.  We saw some awesome fish, sea urchins and funky coral.  Our neighbors usually go in the mornings they say and can see octopus, squid and blowfish.  We're going to try to go with them tomorrow before they leave so we can see some of that stuff!

 

Okay, so we snorkeled (is that a word?) for about 30-45min before deciding to go back to our beach area and swim.  We get back to the car and guess what.  One of windows was busted in.  They took the disposable camera with the awesome pics of parasailing, my VS beach bag, a couple of motel beach towels, 2 pair of pool goggles, Stephen's shirt, and my shorts WITH the hotel key in the pocket.  The hotel key WITH the safe key attached.  Forget the car, we were worried sick about our money and documents! - I mean Aruba is nice and all but not at all a place that I want to be for an extended stay.  Lord have mercy.  Luckily everything turned out fine.  Nothing was missing.  We got another lock to the room door and their bringing another lock for the safe; it's 1 key per lock.  We just got back a little bit ago from exchanging cars at the airport (thank goodness we decided to get insurance!!!!).

 

Let me close again with 5 more things I have learned about Aruba since my last post:

1- punks who don't feel like working like normal folks so they decide to steal other people's things are not partial to just the U.S.

2- even the smallest cars can be pimped out.

3- just because I don't speak your native tongue doesn't mean I'm estupido.

4- next time you're asked if you want to pay an extra $15 a day for car-rental insurance, just remember "Aruba."

5- always remember, in Aruba if you take pictures someone else can take your pictures!