Tubing & Geocaching

January 21, 2015

Tuesday was another day without any scheduled activities.  We started the morning late after having slept in.  I wish I could say these beds were as great as ours at home, but unfortunately it’s not even close.  After breakfast I walked with Pete and Laurie to find out information on renting bikes.  We are thinking we would like to bike to the nearby dormant volcano, Hooisberg.  The walk took us down the beach to to the end of all the hotels.  We found for $25/day they would drop the bikes off at our hotel. After Tom’s and my last bike experience in the Bahamas (where we used some free hotel bikes, and Tom’s bike tire was mostly flat and then the chain came off) he is a little leery of trying bikes again. We saw some bikes parked outside the trailer in which they were operating and asked if those were the bikes.  Thankfully she said no, and said they keep theirs stored in their facility to protect them from the sand and salt water.  We liked the sound of that already.  With no commitments made, we headed back to the resort.

SOB_42881As we came back upon our beach we saw Vince, Alissa, and Ryan with Uncle Tommy getting ready to go on their tubing ride.  Tom strapped our GoPro to Vince and off they went for their 20 minute ride while Uncle Tommy rode along in the boat to take pictures.  We watched from the shore and saw the kids getting whipped around and flying out a couple of times.  When they got back they said it was awesome!!  We weren’t sure if the GoPro was on and recording, so we waited until we got back to the room much later in the evening to see the results.  I was happy to see that it recorded the beginning 6 minutes of the ride.  So fun to listen to the kids screaming and laughing.  The GoPro must have got bumped along the way because it did stop recording and took some pictures too.  The pictures didn’t turn out as great, but happy to have the video.

After lunch I took Alissa and Vince and we went to find a couple of nearby geocaches.  Once again I’m impressed with Aruba in the fact that we could walk out the hotel doors and feel completely safe walking the sidewalks to the geocaches.  The caches were an easy find and nice walk.  When we got back Ryan was disappointed that he didn’t get to go, so we decided to head back out the opposite direction to get another.  Ella wanted to go along on the adventure too, so we waited for her to put on shorts and sneakers.  Well all that waiting made Ryan change his mind and wanted to go swimming instead, so Pete, Laurie, Ella, and I headed out to find another geocache .7 miles away. When I was researching geocaches before we came I noticed there was a cache close to our hotel placed by a geocacher from Wisconsin who I am familiar with.  This was her cache that we were set out to find.  As we got close to ground zero it was Laurie who made the find!  Still can’t believe all the way in Aruba we were looking for a cache by WisJanine.  By the time we got back from our walk it was dinner time.  I can’t believe how fast the day flew.  I never even sat in a beach chair all day!
For dinner we went to the Mexican restaurant in the hotel.  We found the food to be quite good and enjoyed our mixed fajitas of chicken and steak.  After lounging in the lobby listening to some music for a bit, it was back up to the room to finish our game of Phase 10.  Alissa ultimately won by getting Phase 10 first. It had creeped past 11:00pm again so off to bed it was.  We didn’t secure our bikes for Wednesday, so that will be the first priority of the morning.  If the bikes don’t work out, I anticipate another lazy day of reading and sun.
Jess

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