On Thursday, we decided to tackle some shopping and get out and see the island at bit. We walked along the beach to a resort that we'd learned the night before had a pretty good breakfast buffet. We had a nice breakfast, then walked around a new, partially under-construction shopping area. There didn't end up being much there, nor much that was open that early. We decided to head "downtown" and jumped in a couple of cabs.
Downtown Oranjestad was interesting. One side of the street was lined with individual vendors in glorified tents selling all kinds of cheap tourist crap. Almost every vendor had the same stuff, so we quickly tired of that. We crossed the street to find and interesting dichotomy of shopping choices...there were either very high end, Beverly Hills-like shops (Tommy Hillfiger, Feregamo, Yves Saint Laurent) or more cheasy tourist crap. We did find the boys some cute t-shirts but the trip was otherwise a bust. We had lunch downtown at Iguana Joes, and I probably had the best steak quesadilla I've ever had in my life. Yum!
We decided to get the kids back to the resort while the rest of the family enjoyed a drink at the notorious Carlos and Charlie's (the last place Natalie Holloway was seen alive). A little morbid if you ask me.
Back at the resort, Christopher took Thomas down to the pool. I napped and tried to get Andrew to do the same (fat chance). We followed about 20 minutes later.
Thursday night we had dinner at a great local restaurant that featured outdoor seating along a vine covered stone wall, and a short distance away, smaller tables the circled a small swimming pool. It was such a pretty restaurant, and probably the nicest we've ever taken the boys to. They did really well, though, and we got to each in relative peace. I stayed back with the boys again while the rest of the family partied it up back downtown at Carlos and Charlie's. This was truly okay with me :)
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