{"id":13607,"date":"2024-02-09T16:02:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T21:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=13607"},"modified":"2024-02-09T16:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T21:02:57","slug":"carnival-conquest-day-11-aruba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/09\/carnival-conquest-day-11-aruba\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival Conquest Day 11 – Aruba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Silliness in Aruba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It is always sunny in Aruba. Except on the day we were there. It was cloudy all day and even rained a bit. I felt sorry for those people who had booked one of those high-priced beach or snorkeling excursions. They couldn’t have been pleasant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As is our wont (or at least Marlene’s wont), we shopped. We didn’t really buy anything, but we spent about 4 hours considering things that we didn’t buy. Not my idea of a great time – I didn’t even get a beer. I did get a coffee cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mimicking the bull<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Downtown trolley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sharing a booth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Small fort<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pink building downtown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Back on the ship I blogged, had a snack and then read a bit before dinner. I had pasta at dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The casino was brutal. I lost $160 with nary a bonus in the time I played the slots – my only “bonus” was 12 free games which garnered me 25 cents. Down $280 for the cruise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is always sunny in Aruba. Except on the day we were there. It was cloudy all day and even rained a bit. I felt sorry for those people who had booked one of those high-priced beach or snorkeling excursions. They couldn’t have been pleasant. As is our wont (or at least Marlene’s wont), we … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caribbean","category-cruise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3xt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13615,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13607\/revisions\/13615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}