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Before I begin to tell you about an amazing time we had on our favorite Caribbean Island, Curaçao, I have to say how hard this is to write. I remember sitting in our vacation rental home, chatting casually with the other 3 adults about the Corona Virus while the 4 kids played in the shade of palm trees. We had no idea how our lives were about to be flipped upside down. So I sat on this trip report for a very long time. And even now, a year later, it is hard to think about how life was then and how it is now.
Why write about it now? Well, it has been a YEAR since we went on the trip! So besides being overdue, I see this trip report as a way to relive and remember this AMAZING time. Plus, for the first time in 7 years, we will not be taking a mid-winter January/February vacation. And it is cold here in Kentucky, so this report is a way to take my mind somewhere warm. Now, on to the trip! This would be our second time visiting Curacao. If you aren't familiar with our first trip, you can read all about it here. The kids were 3 and adorable on that trip! Here is the basic rundown of our plan for our 2020 trip. (For some background of the island, check out my 2017 pre-trip report). Who is going? This time, we would be traveling with our good friends, the Bush Family! Ashley and Brandon flew the KC-135 with Rob at Grissom and now Brandon flies for Delta. Ashley is still in the AF Reserve, but she is currently at Scott Air Force Base (along with Rob, but she does a different job) and she is also a stay-at-home mom to Becket and Tucker, two loving and very active little boys. When? We flew down to the island at the end of January 2020 and we were back in the beginning of February. That gave us a week on the island. It is always so nice to escape the dreary midwestern winter and get a dose of tropical sun! Where? The daily flight to Curaçao from Miami leaves around noon. Since flights from Indianapolis (for the Bushes) and Cincinnati (for us) arrive later than that, we all arrived a night early and stayed near the Miami Airport. Once on the island, we rented a house in an area of the island called Jan Theil and planned to stay there 7 nights. We chose the house because it had a pool and shallow baby pool, plus a playground in the backyard. We would then fly back to Miami for a night before returning home. What's the plan? There was no agenda planned for this trip! We knew we wanted to eat at the Iguana Cafe at least once and we knew we wanted a day at Mambo Beach, but other than that it was wide open!
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