Aruba

We We Day 2 in Aruba my plan is to walk the 1.9 miles to Reflexions beach bar which I think is in Nikki beach. We have breakfast in our balcony again, pack for a beach day and take the lovely walk along the waterfront. We arrive around 9:30 so have pick of lounge chairs, 18.00 for two chairs and umbrella. There is a small pool but we just swam in the very calm water. A highlight of our beach day was observing the swim lessons going on with the local children as well as a group of handy capped adults swimming and being taught to row a boat, love it when we get to observe local activities going on rather than the usual tourist stuff. Also down the beach was a water park playground right on the water, kids playing in it all with life jackets while the moms watched from a bench on shore listening to some very fun loud music. I thought this is what I would be doing if I was a young mom living here on this island! Dave said he liked the beach today much more than the one yesterday, Palm Beach. I had to agree, this is where I will come back to next time in Aruba. Think we enjoyed the bit of a more local experience, Palm Beach was definitely more touristy. We walked back to the ship to drop off our beach stuff and have lunch.Then walked back off the ship to Starbucks for wifi, we did have wifi at the beach but Dave needs to check in with work again. We texted the kids, then went to browse through the shopping mall, they have very high end stores here, and casinos, kind of a Vegas on the ocean feel. We meet up with our friends for dinner in the dining room then went to the show, a female singer, once again not to our liking so left and went back to our room to read and work on the blog.