We woke up to the island we have been waiting for Aruba.
This is the wonderful island that treated Barb when she was
sick.
We were so excited to go to lunch with Dr. Becker who was
one of 2 Pulmonologists who saved Barb’s life!!
First, we went off the ship to the Catholic Cathedral on
Aruba which was a short cab ride away.
Our cab driver was Beverly and she has lived on Aruba all
her life. She was delightful. She took us to the church and dropped us
off.
On the internet the service was to start at 10:00am;
however, it was wrong and they started at 9:00am
We walked in a just after the homily and was able to partake
in communion so that was good.
When we got out, it was going to be an hour before Beverly
came to pick us up. A wonderful person
had heard that we told Beverly to come back at 11:15am and said she would call
her to pick us up early, which she did.
We dropped Barb &
Tim off in the center of the cruise port and Beverly took us to a store to buy
a couple of items we needed. Then she
took us back to town, dropped us off and came back to take us to lunch.
Lunch was at a local restaurant called the Red Fish Inn Jason,
Jeff and Ed had eaten there before.
It was a teary greeting when Dr. Becker arrived and we had a
delightful couple of hours to eat, thank her and just enjoy her company.
We would out that the other Doctor had taken a position at
the hospital on the island of Bonaire. Dr Becker had his new email so that we could
see if he could join us for lunch in a couple of days when we arrive in
Bonaire.
Dr Becker dropped us off at the cruise ship and we walked
around the cruise port for a little bit before getting back on the ship and going
outside for about an hour of sun.
We are actually south of the north tip of South America for
the next three days so the sun is almost directly overhead and it is
intense.
We then cleaned up and met Barb & Tim and then had
Beverly again take us to a restaurant on the beach called Passions on the Beach. We had been there several times before including
once with Barb and Tim and they asked to go back which were happy to do.
Dinner was wonderful.
We started at 6:00pm and soon there was a nice sunset and we had a great
dinner – probably the best so far.
After dinner we came back to the ship and went to the pool
deck for a sail away party that was really fun.
Lots of music – lots of dancing.
The ship does not sail for Curacao until midnight so the
casino is not open.
That’s it for this day’s blog -
