This attraction was in down town Aruba. There were a lot of people there taking pictures.
This is a map of the whole island of Aruba. The island is 17 miles long and 2 miles wide. They have many attractions on the happy island. They call their island The Happy Island because they want everyone to be happy while they are there. Their main industry is tourism. There are a total of 102,911 people that live in Aruba. The main factory that was used to support the people of Aruba closed in 2012. Every since then they have been catering more to tourism for their income. They have shuttle buses, cabs, and vans that carry tourist around to different locations. They have boats that carry people over to another island called De Palm Island. We spent an entire day on the De Palm Island visiting the water park, buffet breakfast and lunch, and soaking up plenty of sun shine. We continued our trip by visiting Baby Beach at the south end of the island. We took one day just to tour the entire island and see the butterfly attraction in mid-town. We went to some of the open markets to purchase our souvenirs. Everything was very prices. The day we went to shop at the food store we were totally surprised. A loaf of bread was $4.33. Many things were twice the price of ours. The trip to the food store was interesting because you got in a glass trapped door to enter and leave the food store. Once you were in the door with your cart you had to stand there until they decided to let the door open on the other side to let you into the store. They said that this had cut way down on their crime by catching criminals before they could get out of the store. It definitely was an experience.
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