We took it easy on Monday, taking a look around Oranjestaad, the main city on Aruba. It’s quite a neat little town, with lots of different architectural styles. The mall kind of looks like a wedding cake, done up in raspberry sherbet, with lots of levels, and layers, with little figurines and creatures everywhere!

Click on the panorama, and see a larger version of the picture – there is quite a bit of detail in it.

We had lunch at Iguana Joes, a kind of open air restaurant/bar that is very popular in these warmer climates. The food was pretty good. But it was more fun to sit on the second level and watch the traffic go by… tons of De Palm Tour buses, seemingly one for every ten people on the island!

But there are lots of horns going off, and people running yellow lights, and pretending not to see pedestrians walk across the street. There are already eighteen dead in traffic accidents here, with a population of barely 100,000, so you can imagine how poor the drivers are!

We checked out the local Harley dealer – only 165 a day to rent one. Gotta say, the new flat black paint job on the Harleys look terrible. The kid’s sized Harley on a rocker were cute as heck tho!

We stopped off at the local market and picked up some things to make for dinner. Then we came home for a swim and had dinner at Coco Locos instead!

There are two pools here, and two hot tubs. Each hot tub is in a Romanesque pergola, surrounded by statues like Venus on the half shell, Neptune with his trident and cherubs. It`s a very attractive complex.

Note the cruelty of my wife – dumping me on my butt in the pool…