We have been back from vacation for a week now and I am finally getting around to writing about it. I have been working a little more recently and trying to get back into home mode from being in vacation mode for 2 weeks is a little hard.

Aruba is beautiful. The beaches are gorgeous, the people are so friendly and it has a nice variety of things to do. It may have been the fact there was air conditioning, but it felt nice a hot. Saba has been so cold recently it was nice to be able to swim and tan. We spent some days at the beach, some by the pool, went shopping, a day at sea on a pirate ship, did our own tour of the island, went scuba diving and even did some snorkeling. It was a full vacation but we came back feeling very rested. 

We celebrated Christmas down there and were overwhelmed by all the gifts we received. Since there is not much to buy for Christmas presents on Saba we took everyone out to eat as our gift to them. We found the best place. Amazonia. Meat, meat and more meat. It had a huge and delicious salad bar that had way more then typical salad toppings. That is just the starter, after that the show begins. You flip the switch showing you are ready for the main event and then they swarm your table. And I mean swarm. The first time there were 6 people with meat on huge swords surrounding our table. That was the first round. By the end of it we had something like 15 different cuts of meat. Chicken, pork, beef, lamb, sausage.... Yum! Then they brought out the grilled pineapple. I could have ate the whole thing. We will definitely be making that when we get home and have our BBQ back.

Here are a few of the pictures from the trip. I guess I did not get the pictures of Amazonia from Joel's dad so those are missing. I will do another post in a little while with an update on what is going on around here...

The pirate ship! 

The next two pictures is what we saw when we laid by the pool.


There is that relaxed smile that is missing for about 3.5 months at a time. 

Christmas presents!! Fabric! YAY! 

Family portraits



Scuba diving, and we all made it in the picture. 

Do you like our matching snorkel gear? 

And look even Santa came to visit!