Thursday, April 14th

Since we had pretty much finished up the food, we fixed coffee.  I forgot to mention that the coffee we didn't get back was the Costa Rico stuff while the second one she brought we did get back because I suppose it had not yet been opened.  We decide we will finish packing, cleaning up the unit, get dressed and do our checkout and have the porters keep our luggage (gutsy choice after the porter incident a week earlier) and have breakfast at the pool restaurant where we ran into the Cincinnati Kid yesterday.   I called down before we left to have them check on the charge that wasn't mine and Debbie went down and brought up a luggage cart so we didn't have to carry or drag anything.  When I checked out, they had removed the charge that wasn't mine and my total bill was $60.06 after all our dinners, cocktails etc.  Pretty cool although we both said it would have been awful to have to live through another day without the AC as this morning it was hot.

After a pleasant breakfast and playing Words with Friends, which dear Lady Kay, is like Scrabble that you can play on your iPhone, Android phone or iTouch, iPad etc.  It is quite fun and addicting.  I wanted to clear out all the games waiting for "my move" before I turned it off for the trip home.  The porter got us a cab and while riding to the airport we realize this is the first cab ride we have had this trip!  In prior years we took many cab rides since we never rented a car.  We are the first in line at the Delta counter which isn't even open yet.  We chat with some others that get in line behind us and 20 minutes later the employees show up and we check in and head to customs and then Homeland Security.  We look through the shops as I wanted to get some aloe lotion.  They are remodeling the airport too so things are very different than the last time we left there and also gone was the shop I bought my watch in...bummer as I wanted to look in there again.  But we see a sign with an arrow that says "casino" hmmmm do we dare look for it?  We find it as did the couple that was behind us in line at the counter.  The girl staffing the area said they have 3 now and one is on the concourse across from the gate we are leaving from.  Obviously this is a good omen so we head to pick up our screened luggage and go through Homeland Security and deposit the luggage on the belt again and head through the last security checkpoint.  Yippee we are up the escalator and down the concourse into the casino which is directly across from our gate.  I put $20 in a quarter machine and on the 3rd roll hit it for $130!  Debbie is playing a penny machine and having fun and the time passed quickly.  Soon we were boarding and had an extremely annoying male flight attendant in first class but like the rest of our trip, how bad can it be in first class?  We ask for a specific drink and they don't have it.  He would constantly come up with reasons they didn't have this or that.  Anyway we had Bloody Mary's, dinner and watched "The King's Speech" which is an awesome movie.   Soon we are landing in Atlanta and our vacation is over...just like that..its done, finished...dammit Debbie!  Debbie spent the night at my house and then drove home the next day.  We determined it was our best trip to Aruba regardless of the things that happened.

Thanks to Lady Kay for reading our adventures after she returned from her cruise.  Stay tuned for future adventures.