Aruba, we won't be back.

 

Last few photos of Aruba. It was a nice little island to visit, but I wouldn't go back. The 'rich culture' of the Caribbean was not obvious (is this the most insulting thing to say about a country? Am I turning into a colonialist?) The beaches were great but there really is nothing to do on a cloudy day. Well actually now we have kids clouds are perfect for beach days. The map showed a couple of old one room chapels but nothing to hold anyone's attention for long. I felt like they needed to take some tips from America. Here are some of my favourite American attractions:

- big Sue the largest Holstein cow (a 34 ft model cow in a field in North dakota)

- the first place the British stepped foot on the land (literally the rock their feet touched. Even if this is not dubiously found until 60 years after the event)

- Wall Drug Store. A chemists in a place called wall. It was advertised for over 100 miles on the road. To be fair it did have a model dinosaur in the parking lot

- the corn palace. A building which has a small amount of corn pinned up on it, not a palace made out of corn which people might wrongly assume.

- a house where a criminal grew up (There are numerous but I've seen Jesse James' house first hand)

- crazy horse statue. Again not quite what you think. Pay your entrance fee and turn the kink in the road only to see that it's not finished. In Fact It still looks very much like a cliff face and not at all like a Nobel Indian pointing to the land where his kin lie dead.

Ready for a seafood dinner :)

Ice cream for breakfast. We've really settled into this travelling thing!