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Aruba...One Happy Island & One Happy Couple...!
 
April, 2012 for our 17th anniversary

We stayed on Palm Beach where all the action is...
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Aruba is a small island about 15 miles north of Venezuela, SA

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Divi-Divi Tree on Eagle Beach grows SW due to tradewinds that always blow on Aruba.

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Palm Beach in Aruba is where our hotel was located...near all the action!

Alto Vista Chapel in Aruba...
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We have seen more tiny little churches in our travels...as well as some mighty big ones too.

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California Lighthouse...pretty tall next to Ronnie

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You just got to hop a bus and go downtown for lots of shopping!

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You will see the Dutch influence arhitecture, especially downtown.

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Ronnie & Kathy inside the Hard Rock Cafe in Aruba...

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Natural Bridge from centuries of errosion from the sea.

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Waves crash against the rocks...this is how the natural bridge was formed.

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Ronnie & Kathy enjoying Aruba tour...

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Ronnie standing in front of a Divi tree...it always grows in a 45 degree direction due to the winds

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Ronnie & Kathy just hangin' out with Smokey Joe at his place...what fun!

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Aruba beaches are just awesome!

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Aruba has all kinds of water activities...

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Aruba has very nice beaches and lots of fun water sports.

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Oh what fun...bring pulled by a power boat on a hugh blow-up chair!

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Typical cemetary in Aruba...painted the same color as their house.

The Paddock
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While downtown, we stopped for a cold beer at this quaint place on the waterfront.

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Just gotta stop in at the local Hard Rock Cafe for lunch and a T-shirt...

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This is where a much larger natural bridge collasped 6 years ago...sorry we missed it.

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Rock looks like a Hippo with his mouth wide open...yikes!

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Cactus planted for fence...the inner part of Aruba is a desert where cactus grow wild.

Aruba is one of the four constituent countries that form the Kingdom of the Netherlands, together with the Netherlands, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten whose citizens share a single nationality: Dutch citizen.
 
Together with Bonaire, it forms a group referred to as the ABC islands of the Leeward Antilles, the southern island chain of the Lesser Antilles.
 
The island is only 69 sq. miles in size with very little rainfall with an average temperature of 83-88F.

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