Aruba, Day Two

We spent part of the day lounging around and swimming in our private swimming pool. We also went on a shopping spree at Super Food so we could fill our refrigerator for the week. Super Food is something of an equivalent to Costco at home.  With the current exchange rate for the Aruban florin to the dollar (1 dollar is equivalent to something near 1.79 florin), the prices are very reasonable.

They sell some strange flavors of potato chips at Super Food: maple bacon, barbeque ham, paprika, Bolognese, etc.  Another difference?   The store is filled with entry and exit gates to control the swirling floods of people into and out of various points in the store.

The store is crazy busy, which is odd, because the island is not all that busy.  A map we picked up at the airport noted the island of Aruba has a population of only 102,000 people.  The beaches we stopped at were beautiful and not really all that populated.  Not busy at all.  There was plenty of room for pelicans and other sea birds to dive in alongside swimmers to catch fish. 

We swam at one beach, snorkeled at another, and then walked along a third near sunset last night.  The water was perfectly warm.

So far, I am greatly impressed.

And my buddy Bill—perhaps a leading expert in mispronouncing words from foreign tongues—is just getting started.

I managed only a few photographs yesterday.  Today, we intend to cover the entire island and I will try to capture photographs.

-- Mitchell Hegman