Aruba
In August of 2024, Ariel, Jacob, Ethan and I went on a trip to the desert island of Aruba. Unfortunately for me, I got pretty sick, starting on the plane and ended up spending about 70% of the entire trip in the room recovering. But Ariel, Jacob, and Ethan had a lot of fun every day at the beach and pool. And by the end of the trip I had recovered enough to be able to take some really cool trips with them to Arikok National Park (which has some shockingly different vistas vs the rest of the Caribbean islands), and enjoy some really great restaurants. I even got to spend a couple of sunsets with them in ocean as the sun sank into the water — one of my favorite things to do when the sun goes down.