Time to post some pics before Alex turns 10 (this Saturday!) and then I have to do that post before I do this one and all of sudden these are lost because it’s too late. It’s been a theme over the past…year? two years? EEEEEK.
So, we had a pretty nice little February everyone. I don’t know how I managed to squeak out approvals for back-to-back vacations from our family’s fearless leader but ya’ll, I did.
Vacation 1 Aruba.
Home base: AirBnB
Traveling companions: Jason, Kari and Ben
This one was meant to be a getaway for just Jason and I, but once we realized we had two bedrooms in our condo (we saved our Marriott points for Puerto Rico, see Vacation 2), I gave Kari and Ben a nice long advance notice of about 10 days and said come with us to Aruba OBVIOUSLY. And they did!
We spent the first night watching the Superbowl on the beach, the next day on UTV’s exploring the island (despite having been to Aruba many times before, we had never done this!) and the rest of the time with our toes in the sand, not doing dishes, not working, not parenting, and not worrying about much besides our dinner reservations. It looked like this!
Night 1 Superbowl. It’s one of the only identifiable parts of the timeline since after this it was blur of beaches and cocktails. But seriously this was at Moomba Beach and quite the setup.
“I’m only watching the Superbowl from the beach from now on!” – Jason
Day 1. UTV’s along Aruba’s coastline. SO many pictures of this, the landscape was pretty incredible, very rocky and desert-y with rough waters. We rented from Arubiana instead of doing a tour – we were on our own timeline and followed a virtual guide on their app to hit the sights we wanted to see. Our route:
It was really, really awesome.
Here’s a video of Jason banching down the hill and doing a donut:
It was a dusty, hot, thirsty day during which we all got sunburned in strange patterns but we loved it!
The rest of the things went by at a nice cadence: coffee by the pool, pack lunch, beach, cocktails, back to the pool, off to dinner. Sooo relaxing.
The lenses on my iPhone camera were smudged with sunscreen half the time and the other half of the time I was blinded by the sun but I think the photos more or less tell the story 😉
This one took a village. GG, Grandpa, Grandma, Becky and Joe, and a bunch of parents who drove Ashton and Alex where they needed to be. Thank you! It took more time to plan being away than actually being away but it was all worth it. We got home on Thursday night, and three days later…see Part 2!
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