We arrived in time to see the soft-opening of the new downtown trolley
in Aruba.
It will run from the Cruise terminal to the end of historic main street
Caya Betico Croes.
We hopped onto the trolley and the Prime Minister of Aruba Mike Eman
snapped a picture with us.
On Christmas day we went to mass in San Nicolas. Here we are
next to Father Juancho.
One of our traditions is now to have lunch at Greta Posner's right
after Christmas.
It is always great to see her and Oiky's family. Our
friendship goes back to
when I was born.
My youngest nephew Roderick. He is Roland's second son.
Such a cutie.
Aggie brought him his first Hess Truck. Vroom!
We also went go-carting at Bushiri Track.
Always tons of fun, and Agnes decided to race a bunch of little kids
as she was tired of being passed by us.
Zumba
at the Renaissance Mall and Marketplace
(where the white tiger used to be located).
We were invited to another party with the Posner's and were
thrilled to find out Aruban musical icon Etty
Toppenberg
was going to perform for us. It was an honor to meet him.
We danced the night away
(photo by Ike Posner).
We also met with Aggie's relatives. Auntie Jennie, Uncle
Eddie (who is the park ranger),
Christopher, and Shalane Croes.
We went to lunch at the Zeerover
seafood restaurant, and met another Aruban icon, Rolly
Bislik. His picture also hangs at the Paseo
Herencia mall near mine.
Rolly is a famous swimmer, and swam the distance from Aruba to
Venezuela many years ago. It was thrill meeting him too.
Our lunch of fried fish and shrimp. Wow, that was good.
The restaurant is owned by Rolly's family, and we also met his sister
and husband who
live next to the restaurant in the house that Rolly was born in.
Two great friends!
This year, Michelle got in the act of lighting fireworks.
One
of the homework assignments Christopher had was to shoot a stop motion
animation video. After some thought, we purchased a small
Lego
set, and he set to work using Ah Yeh's old tripod and shot a wonderful
video. He got an A on the assignment.
This is the video he shot. "Cleanup at the quarry".
Parting view from Aruba: pano from Mom's house on the hill.
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