Day5 - Chillaxing

(FJJ) Wednesday we mostly chilled, we hung out by the pool and were pretty good a being layabouts.  We did manage a short walk and found a few coconuts that were not all dried up.  After significant effort we got  the husk off and it was pretty tasty.  The evil mermaids even had them in their drinks in the pool, delivered by their Cabana boys.

After lunch Fred, Ed and Bob set out to find the original Aruba Golf Club.....we found it at the very south tip of the island, in a desert, with 1000's of goats, right near the prison. It looked as if no one has been there in 50 years, but much to our surprise, it was actually open, and has a bar.

We have not decided yet if we are going to invest in the $10 greens fees to play this unique course, Bob says it is sure to guarantee a few Kodak moments.

We decided to go downtown for dinner, and some light shopping.

Paddock's restaurant had a all you can eat ribs night for $13.  I am pretty sure we put the hurt on them. Not sure where they get their ribs, the running joke is that there is no shortage of goats on the island, all I can say is that they were tasty.

After dinner the sun was setting (it sets here about 7PM this time of year) and we decided to head up to the California Light House to see if we could catch it.  I was breezy and beautiful. There is a white table cloth Italian restaurant at the light house, after viewing the menu ($$$$) I doubted would get much business, but their parking lot was full, guess people with means do come to Aruba to play.
 



We ended the evening on the balcony watching a light show.  Lightning in the clouds was pretty spectacular, we originally thought it was heat lightning but after we went to bed it really started to bang and it poured, I guess this is typical for this climate.



Thursday some of us plan to do some more snorkeling and some are thinking of renting Hobie's for sailing.