Jennifer Croat

Another beautiful island! In Aruba, we rented a jeep for the day ($60 +$19 for insurance) and explored on our own. The street map we were given was horrible, but it didn’t seem to matter. Aruba is such a small island and we felt safe at all times. We set off to find the Natural Bridge and somehow, by taking, a left here and a right there, found it, and got to see a lot of Aruba in doing so! After touring that side of the island, we made our way over to Palm Beach where we relaxed by/in the water for a few hours before we had to head back to Oranjestad for the Submarine Excursion we’d signed up for. That was a fun excursion. You take a boat ride out to a submarine that takes you 150 ft below the water surface. We saw sunken ships, a sea turtle, lots of fish and coral, plus how many people can say they’ve been in a submarine. After the submarine ride, we shopped and stopped at a few of the bars on the strip before heading back to the ship to get showered. Then, to end our day in Aruba, we headed to Carlos and Charlie’s; an awesome bar about 2 blocks from the ship. It reminded me a lot of Spring Break in college!!! We had to be back on the ship at 10:30pm, so at about 10:25 pm, almost everyone in the bar shuffled out and start heading back to the ship. Everyone was laughing and dancing in the streets, and when we got back to the boat, there were tons of people on the balconies of the ship, laughing and dancing with us.

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