Our oldest clothing and balaclavas to protect ourselves from all the dust kicked up from the off-road vehicles everywhere. If you look closely, you can see the “clean” diagonal stripe across Dave’s shirt from the seat belt.
On Saturday we spent the day on the desolate, but beautiful, northeast side of the island. The orientation of the island with the prevailing arid winds makes one side much more desert-like than the other. The boys thoroughly enjoyed taking turns driving the off-road vehicle. There’s some controversy in driving “UTVs” around, mainly from folks who don’t respect the roads and destroy the wildlife and plants when they try to go completely off road. We made a point to respect the map and stay on the roads. In the future, if we go back, we’ll check out one of the horseback tours.
In the evening we took a Kukoo Kunuku Party Bus tour, bar hopping throughout Oranjestad. We behaved and the following day we actually woke up feeling decently. I’m sure being at sea level has given us some superpowers.
#graduationcelebration2023
This is the vehicle we rented for most of the day.
Dave and I want to explore the northeastern part of the island via horseback if/when we get back to Aruba…A lot of folks don’t realize all the cactus that grow on the windward side of the island.
The sign over Tim’s head shows the bus’s celebrations…we snuck in Tim’s celebration!This is called the Old Dutch Bar. It was our favorite of the three places we visited on the party bus. Tim has a massive Tito’s martini.There were maracas in the back of the seat in front of us.At the La Ronda Cafe. When an aspiring Instagram or TikTok influencer offers to take your picture…
