This is the final week in sunny Aruba! This week we did have a little rain but it came and went within an hour and the sun came out again.
It has been a wonderful trip with friends we see each year. We spend time catching up with each other and soaking in the sun, water and delicious food. Need to go on a diet when I get home. Luckily we put in over 10k steps each day and sometimes even 16k steps. We sleep well after those busy days.
This is last night at the famous Gianni’s Italian Restaurant. Everyone must try this restaurant when they are down here. They have a wall above of cheese balls in which they make Pasta Fromaggio – pasta and cheese (expensive version of mac and cheese). They put on a show doing it. Sorry I didn’t take a photo of my Linguine Fruitta de Mare! It was delicious with clams, shrimp and calamari! But John snapped a photo of me enjoying my favorite – red sangri! Love it more than just wine now!
Most nights we were too full to have gelato but did manage to have it a couple of times. There is always next year!!
Check out the enormous Caribbean lobsters in the tank! I have tried them but prefer Maine lobsters – so much better!
Here are some night views of lovely Aruba!
A fun night on Wednesday with good friend at Bavaria Restaurant!
Interesting place but not my favorite food – German – but we had a fabulous time with the waiter laughing and joking and snapping photos of the fascinating stuff that was displayed there. Wonderful evening with friends!
The food above was a hug ham hock, chicken schnitzel Hawaiian (my dinner) and pork schnitzel with onions. I snapped all the food of my friends too to share. This was one time when I did not forget to do that. Sigh!
I promise to share many more photos after I get home from my husband’s camera. He took tons of photos!
Thank you so much for stopping by to read about my memorable trip. Feeling wonderful and relaxed and ready to get back home and work on some more books!
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Janice
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Janice is an multi-award-winning author with 37 books: 18 children's books for PS-Gr 4, 12 middle-grade/preteen, one young adult book, written under Janice Spina, and 5 novels, and a short story collection written under J.E. Spina. She is also a writer of poetry, blogger, avid reader, reviewer and a copy editor. Janice has always loved writing and started very young writing poetry, then stories.
Her books have received 28 Book Awards and a few Finalists in contests.
AWARDS:
4 MOM'S CHOICE AWARDS - SILVER MEDAL - Lamby the Lonely Lamby, Ricky the Rambunctious Raccoon, Louey the Lazy Elephant, Jesse the Precocious Polar Bear
11 PINNACLE BOOK ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS - Davey & Derek Junior Detectives, Books 1, 2, 3, 5, & 6. Abby & Holly Series, Books 1-6
READERS' FAVORITE AWARDS - HONORABLE MENTION - Davey & Derek Book 1,
READERS' FAVORITE AWARDS - SILVER MEDAL - Davey & Derek Junior Detectives Series, Book 3
READERS' FAVORITE AWARDS - BRONZE MEDAL - Abby & Holly Book 1
READERS’ FAVORITE AWARDS - HONORABLE MENTION — Abby & Holly Book 2
READERS’ FAVORITE AWARDS - FINALIST - Davey & Derek Book 6
5 PINNACLE BOOK ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS - Jerry the Crabby Crayfish, Broose the Moose on the loose, Colby the Courageous Cat, Jeffrey the Jittery Giraffe, Sebastian Meets Marvin the Monkey
BOOK EXCELLENCE AWARD - FINALIST - Davey & Derek Book 6
Authorsdb Cover Contest Silver Medal - Davey & Derek Book 5
FINALISTS:
Authorsdb First Lines Contest, - Hunting Mariah and Mariah's Revenge were Finalists
Red City Review Awards - Finalist - Davey & Derek Book 4
READERS’ FAVORITE BOOK AWARDS - 5-STAR REVIEW - Davey & Derek Book 4
All Janice's books are available on Amazon.com, Kindle, B&N and other online book sites.
One of her sports' poems was published in The Lawrence Eagle Tribune in October of 2008. She is currently working on book 1 of a YA fantasy series. There will be six books in all in this series. She hopes to work on a series of four books in a crime/mystery genre that will be offsprings of her thriller, Hunting Mariah.
Her hobbies are crocheting, walking to keep fit, hula hooping, tap dancing, going to the movies with her husband, and spending time with her five grandchildren.
Janice loves to hear from readers and appreciates reviews. Sign up on her blog http://jemsbooks.blog for a copy of her newsletters under Contact Me. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband who is her illustrator and cover creator.
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Thank you for a wonderful virtual trip to Aruba, Janice. So glad you had three weeks there.
Happy you enjoyed it. I have more photos to share from my husband’s camera soon. Wonderful trip! 🤗😘🦃🍁
Looking forward to seeing them!
Excellent photos, Janice. You had a wonderful three weeks in Aruba. German food is not my favorite wither. I like fresh vegetables, and prefer fresh fish or meat. 🙂
It was a fun night even if the food wasn’t the best. 😁
Yes, I know. It’s the company that counts! 🙂
Lovely photographs, Janice. I looks like so much fun.
It was! 😁😘
Looks and sounds like a wonderful place to visit! Maybe my hubby and I will get to go someday!
It is like Heaven!
Janice, it always looks like you have a fabulous time when you travel. And I do know what you mean about spending the days outdoors and all that fresh ocean air, it whacks me out by 10pm LOL. And I’m with you on Maine lobsters! ❤ xxx
❤️ 🤗 😘