The Adventures of the George Family: #Aruba

Brian and I were lucky to go on our first solo trip since having kids - actually since our honeymoon! Since we usually schedule a trip around meeting up with friends or family, we don't usually use our time off to go on a trip just the two of us, until this past week! And we were double lucky, as Brian's company paid for our entire trip - yea!

Grama & Papa came to stay with Tristan and Talia for six nights while we made the long journey down to Aruba. I was surprised by just how long it took for us to get down there. We were there only four nights, but since we live in a small town that does not have an international airport, it took us three flights and 15 hours of traveling one way, thus traveling overnight for two of the nights. Brian and I joked that we could have gone over to Europe in that amount of time!

Since it was a company-paid trip, we were spoiled the entire time. Catamaran/snorkeling trip one day, all hosted meals, swim up bar, etc. It was hard to not have an amazing time!

Here are some pics of our very memorable trip:

On our way! Pretty excited about our first solo trip :)

And we were even more excited when we learned that we were flying first class the entire way down!

First night hosted dinner right on the beach. Not too bad :)

Beautiful night

Our first activity was a team sand building competition. Have to admit that I was a little scared we were going to fail, but then was pleasantly surprised to find out that we had some amazingly creative people on our team! Still think we were robbed with second place :)

This is what we started with. Still cannot believe what we created with this!

Our amazing group putting it all together!

We thought this was our competition...until they got 3rd.

This was 1st???!!! Robbed, I tell ya :)

All 14 of the groups

Had to get another couple shot of us in front of "Vantiva".

And then this is how we spent our second day in paradise :)

Not rough at all

This is the very fun couple who were in our sand building group. It bonded us so much that we ended up hanging out the entire rest of the trip with them! In fact, # became a theme of our trip and I now laugh every time I think of hashtagging anything (hence the name of this post :)! Funny that even on our first solo trip, we still find another fun couple to hang out with! They are even making plans to come visit us next winter :)