Greetings from Aruba!

Here we are, finally, in paradise. Not a complete one though.
Let me start with our trip. My genious idea to bring our cat to a four hour flight, proved to be not as genious. Nina was fine until we took off! I guess the noises of taking off scared her, so she started meowing in her carring case. So I took her to the bathroom where I let her out. She was still scared. You know how stable and quiet plane bathrooms are. We stayed there until she came down, which translates to the real time into a half an hour. When she volunteerly went back to her bag, I took her back to the seat. I repeated the same ritual two more times, but she didn't even want to get out of the bag, to that small, dirty bathroom. Smart cat. Somehow, four hours went by without bigger incidents.
On our cab ride from the Aruba airport to our Amsterdam Manor resort, we enjoyed beautifull Arubian architecture of Oranjestad. It's Dutch colonial, with small vivid color buildings everywhere, so you have a bright yellow house next to a pink one. I really like that colorfullness. Our resort is small but with everything one needs: the pool, beautiful powder sugary beach and crystal clean coldish water, bar on the beach, couple of restaurants with good food, a store and obviously internet.
We dined at Mango's, a restuarant right in the middle of the Amsterdam Manor. Our snaper and shrimp in creole sause were delicious. The rooms are actually miniture yellow houses, with kitchenettes inside, and tiny outdoor areas.
It's windy but M. says that's good-it keeps the mosquitos away. Mosquitos can be a big problem in the Caribbean. They were in the U.S.Virgin Islands three or so years ago.
All in all, it seems to be a great place. I wish the water is warmer, but as M. poined out, it is January.