One Happy Island

There are no words to adequately describe the vacation in Aruba. Other than the relatively constant in weather (80-90 degrees daily, sunny, and windy), the island is a unique, and perhaps odd, assortment of vegetation, terrain, languages, and animals.
Interesting tidbits:

• Palm trees are not native to Aruba. Nor are they numerous outside of resort areas.
• Divi trees bend westward.
• The cacti and Divi trees wind around each other so much it often forms a wall/canopy that you cannot see through. They are used as fences in many places.
  
• Aruban driving laws state that you must stop for iguanas, goats, and donkeys.
• Goats roam freely, as do chickens.
• There were ostrich farms and donkey sanctuaries.
• Aruba does have a military. We drove through their firing range.
• Some parts of the ground were covered in a coral-like substance, as if once part of the ocean floor. Other areas offered sand dunes, red rock (much like Utah), and still others showed us a black rock that reminded me of the pumice from volcanoes.

For those of you not on facebook, here are just a few pictures from our blissful week-long getaway. We certainly hope we will return to this happy place again.