By: Jan Fearnow from Ocala, Florida
We visit Aruba a lot and since we are renting a house, (from the wonderful family that owns Universal聽Restaurant) we don’t get the paper like we do when we stay at our timeshares at La Cabana, but we love reading it online. Over the 20+ years my husband and I have been coming here to this beautiful, peaceful island we have made so many friends.聽Families, single people, older people, waitresses, waiters, bartenders, restaurant managers, the list goes on and on. The great thing is that we keep in touch.聽 Some bring their children to our house here to swim in the pool, have a cook out, and this year we spent Christmas with them.聽 We even call them our adopted children and grandchildren and it brings us great pleasure.聽
Aruban kindness
Yesterday, I had the unfortunate to revisit ARC (wonderful clinic). My husband had returned to the state due to business and my pain was so bad I knew I could not drive, I texted one of our young mothers to see if she could help.聽 She was at work, but immediately explained to her manager what was happening and was told for her to go now. Not only could聽the manager have said no, but they were kind enough to let her come and help me immediately. True Aruba聽Kindness.聽This lady came聽to the house picked me up, stayed with me at the clinic, brought me back home, went and obtained my prescriptions, brought聽 me soup and continued to check on me throughout the day.聽 She alerted other friends who contacted me and said they would do whatever I needed. This included our landlord who would bring it to me or have it delivered.聽Again, True Aruba Kindness.
It grew later in the night and I wondered why I had not heard from anyone, but they have families of their own so I figured they were busy聽 getting the children to聽 bed, etc.聽 I knew my husband was busy with our businesses so I thought he would聽just call later or send me a fast email to let me know all was good and we would speak the next morning.聽Little did I know that someway my phone had went to air plane mode so I could not receive anything.聽Suddenly there is a knock on my front door and聽I could see聽a person through the blind on my window.聽How can this be happening?聽 I have an 8 ft fence around the house聽the garage door is down tight, and all the gates are closed and locked. I ask “who is it?” My friend said “it’s me are you ok?”聽 I聽open the door asking “how did you get in?”聽After her telling me my husband was worried sick because he couldn’t reach me he ask if there was any way she could check on me.
She had driven to my house immediately, drove her car as close to the聽fence as she聽could, jumped on the hood, sprang over the fence to the garbage can and jumped down to the ground.聽ONCE AGAIN, ARUBA KINDNESS.
After we fixed my phone and we assured my husband I was ok, had not passed out, etc. I let her out the front gate and thanked her a thousand time.
That my friends it what the people and聽businesses are all about in Aruba.聽 Taking care of people you have come to know, love and treat them like family.
Because that is what they truly are while you are in Aruba.聽 YOUR ARUBA FAMILIES, FRIENDS FILLED WITH ARUBA KINDNESS
What more could I ask for on this beautiful island????
