It's beautiful here in Aruba. I arrived shortly after noon and just sped through customs. Jumped in a taxi to my hotel on Eagle Beach, thank goodness I don't have to exchange currency here.

 The taxi driver said the temperature was 100˚. It felt like ~90˚ because the air is so dry here. Fortunately, the ocean water was comfortably cool. The ocean was calm, many shades of blue, and totally relaxing.

A few hours later a lightning storm came through and now I'm just waiting for the weather to lighten up so I can walk to the beach a little bit more to find an interesting and relatively cheap place for dinner.