Best Memories of Aruba: Part Three!
May 16, 2008 | Tags: Aruba, Daily, Travel
Before I give you the third installment of the Best Memories of Aruba, let me present to you the bird.
After an exhilarating day of ATV riding, Jeff and I saw this Mickey Mouse painted on the wall of a mini-mart store in the alleys of Aruba. That alley was definitely not censored! The painting definitely gave us a laugh, especially after a long day of nearly getting killed on the ATV (or at least me, because you know, Jeff was a pro).
The next day, Jeff and I decided to chill on the Renaissance Island, because we had an early dinner reservation at the Flying Fishbone.
The Renaissance Island has two divided beaches: Flamingo Beach and Iguana Beach. By chillin’ on the island, I mean slathering lots of sunblock on us, lying on a hammock, watching iguanas and lizards slither by quickly, chatting, people watching, and laughing at flamingos that seemed to be on crack. Watch this video until the end.
Should I be worried Jeff might leave me for a flamingo on crack? Hmm. Seriously, though, I’d never seen a pink flamingo before, so it was a pretty neat moment watching them flock around. The flamingos never went over to the Iguana Beach, and I wondered why. Maybe they were taught by the staff to stay on the Flamingo Beach? Or perhaps something in the Flamingo Beach sand makes the flamingos addicted to the Flamingo Beach! Oh the conspiracies!
While in the midst of chilling on the beach, Jeff kept biting his fingernails as if he was thinking. I asked him what he was thinking about, but he kept insisting he wasn’t thinking about anything. I was all, “Bullshit! You’re biting your nails and acting like something is on your mind.” He was not thinking about the proposal that he would do that evening at the Flying Fishbone. He was thinking about how to scare me with a fake iguana!
Apparently Jeff had devised up this prank while at home before going to Aruba, because the so-called fake iguana was purchased before the vacation. He knew there were many iguanas in Aruba and that I was uneasy about the whole iguana thing. Yay for Jeff – another successful prank for his books!
Renaissance Island had other animals, such as parrots. These parrots were bickering, then turned their backs on each other, kind of like siblings:
In the same area (or cage, but that’s an awful word!) as the parrots, there was a pink duck or something. I had never ever seen a pink bird or a pink duck other than a flamingo, so I have no idea what this was. Perhaps someone thought it would be funny to spray paint the duck pink to match the flamingos?
Put simply, Renaissance Island was my favorite beach spot in Aruba. Palm beach was cool, but it was busy. Eagle Beach stank, literally. I needed nose plugs there. But the Renaissance Island? Pure relaxation. In fact, I don’t think I knew what relaxation meant until the Renaissance Island came into my life. Plus you had to take a boat to get there, and the wind while speeding to the island was bliss.
HAHAHAHAHHA. I laughed out loud at your videos. I wanna take a trip with you two someday, I’m positive that I’ll come back with a boatload of funny moments to giggle at.
My fave was the fake iguana. You handled that pretty well once you figured it out (or did the video clip conveniently end at that point?). I think I would have been slapping Jeff at that point. The HAND (*grins*).
Thanks for sharing!
hahaha! that’s funny. seriously i’m in awe at how much the guy plans to play pranks on you! you handle it much better than i could. awesome videos.
*giggles*
The fake iguana one is STILL my favorite.
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Damn, that was funny, could’ve been more funny if your bra was… ooo nevermind… . I am at my usual, a total PERV, forgive me.