Curacao trip

My parents decided to take a trip to Curacao and suggested that all their kids and grandkids to join them.  So we did!

We had an 8 am flight out with a connection in Miami.  So it made for a long travel day but everyone did well.  We stayed at a Marriott resort on the beach and it was beautiful.  We spent a lot of time on the beach or at the pool but we did get out an see a bit of the island as well.

At the beach!

Jeff playing with Claire and Audrey

Ellie hanging out in the shade

Beach babes

Ellie gets a little lunch from Paaps

Ellie's first experience with the ocean

Us kids plus my mom went on a ATV ride while my aunt and my dad stayed back with the three girls.  We had a blast riding around various neighborhoods, to an aloe plant farm, by the water and viewing a bat cave.

The line of ATVs

Island vegetation

Off we go!

A little hike up to the cave

Jeff checks out the bats

Brandi pretends there are no bats

View from the top

Mom and her kiddos

It was a little dusty

The ladies get a spa treatment -
little fishies eating the dead skin off our feet

It felt a little funny

You can see how much Jamie enjoyed it  :)

We went into town for dinner a few evenings and had some delicious seafood and steaks.  The guys even took babysitting duty one night so the ladies could have a ladies night!

The view from our first night out

The family

View from the second night out

Ladies' night!

The floating bridge.  We got watch them move it
out of the way and have tugs pull in a giant ship

The bridge at night

Jeff and I, our girls, and Mom and Dori did a train tour of the town of Willemstad and went to an aquarium on our last day.

Getting ready for the train tour

Dolphins!

Sharks and fish

Ellie enjoying the aquarium

Flamingos!

We had a great time!  The girls did well traveling.  Sleeping all in the same room was a little tough but we survived.  Ellie did okay napping on the go or in her little tent on the beach.  Claire was afraid of getting in the ocean but enjoyed playing in the sand.  She did get a little more comfortable with the pool by the end of the trip.  So hopefully after a summer of pool time she will be good to go for our beach trip in September!