We arrived in Aruba late afternoon/early evening and took a taxi from the airport to our hotel at the Marriott Stellaris Resort and Casino. Once we checked in, we quickly settled in and freshened up, and headed out to explore the area and walk to our first dinner reservation at Bavaria, a German restaurant. We walked along the beach and were so excited to see the turquoise colored waters and baby powder white sand! We snapped some pics and walked along the beach to check out the strip. It wasn't hard finding the restaurant - we had to ask a few people and got there in no time. We were literally the only other table having dinner there that night as they claimed that weekends are slow for them as people are normally traveling in and out of Aruba and it's also low season (US summers).
YOLO = my motto for this trip
The food was good - we had pretzels and a salad to start, veal and pork schnitzel, and a bratwurst sausage sample for entrees and shared everything. Everyone else was not too impressed by the food but I thought it was a solid meal. We stopped by a grocery store nearby after and picked up some essentials for the room (water and snacks). We eventually noticed that there was a pretty large population of Chinese people in Aruba and they owned nearly all of the supermarkets and minimarts.
We walked back to the hotel passing by the strip on the road and little souvenir shops and stores. We also mad a run through the small mall complex where Eunice and Erica got 2 tiny scoops of Haagen Daz. Once we got back to the hotel, we went to bed early since we knew we had to get up early next morning for our Jolly Pirates snorkeling and rope swing tour.
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