Honeymoon Part Deuce: ARUBA Day 4

Up an hour earlier this morning to get more fit into the day...my husband went for a swim in the sea while I put together breakfast: egg white omelet with smoked turkey and cheese, fresh fruit, and coffee.  We ate on the balcony then took our walk on the beach.  We layed out for a few hours, some island dogs came by us at one point (although during daylight hours much less scary!).  Finally I bought a huge white hat for the beach I had been eying since we arrived.  Too bad it's too windy on the island to wear it!!

We had lunch in our room, then headed up to MooMba Beach by the high rises for the Jolly Pirates snorkeling/booze cruise tour.  While walking toward the pier, something wet landed on my shoulder and baseball hat, looked like water when I looked at my shoulder so I asked my husband if water landed on my hat as well. I tipped my head down for him to see and as I did, this clear slimy bird sh*t slid off the front of my hat.  I was so disgusted!  My husband was laughing so hard he almost peed his pants.  He told me it's good luck to get sh*t on.  I told him that's what people tell you so you don't feel so bad about the fact that you are covered in sh*t...moving on.

We had time to kill before boarding the boat so we sat at a beach bar and had a beer.  Finally we took a smaller boat over to the pirate ship.  The trip lasted 3 hours, during which there was open bar, we stopped at 2 different sites to snorkel (the Antilla shipwreck and the Peter Ellis shipwreck).  At the first stop the guys running the ship told us we had to put our flippers on, life vests, snorkel gear, and jump off the top of the boat.  It took me a good 5 seconds before I could manage enough courage to jump 10 feet (if that) into the 60-foot deep water, but I finally did it.  At first trying to snorkel out in the middle of a sea I was having anxiety, a tough time breathing through the tube, but finally after I saw all the cool fish I think I forgot what I was doing and I snorkled around just fine.  As we were getting out of the water one guy loudly said to some girl "did you pee?" and she was squinting and scrunching up her face and she said "not yet, I'm trying".  Really??? Why don't you just announce it the world...musta had one too many Aruba Aribas before getting in the water...

After the 2nd snorkeling stop, one of the guys came around pouring shots in everyone's mouths (not that anyone needed them!) Turns out the girl I was sitting next to and talking to the entire time on the boat is from my state, and only lives about 30 minutes from me!  Talk about a small world...

Finally there was a rope swing: anyone who wanted to jump off the boat from the swing lined up and then one by one jumped into the water.  My husband went twice, decided the line was too long and asked the guys if he could jump off the opposite side of the boat and they said sure so there he went.

By the time we were coming back in to shore, we were all drinking and dancing and it wasn't even 6 pm yet!  We got back to our room and had something to eat, then actually went out to dinner at Matthews (all you can eat ribs?  My husband couldn't resist ;)

I was feeling a little woozy from all the sweet island drinks so we went back to our room and I was sleeping by 9:30 pm!