Yay! We finally made it to Aruba, we left Redlands at 9:00pm Friday night for the 12:45 am red eye to Houston, that flight was delayed for Houston's bad weather and then we were delayed in Houston waiting for some other planes to come in.
First night adventure, we got checked in, cleaned up and went to dinner at The Old Fisherman in Orangestad. We were heading back to the hotel, probably about 5 miles away when a tire comes rolling down the road right towards us. The jeep ahead of us had its left rear tire just fall off. We passed them and then decided maybe we should go back and help. It wasn't easy changing the tire, the jeep was on its axle so it wouldn't jack up high enough so they had to jack it up, put the tire under it and then lower the jack and lifted it up high enough to get the tire back on the three of five bolts that were left. It's just about done here, Brent and Craig showed the son how to work the jack and tighten up the lug nuts. Craig checked the other tires, two of them had very loose lug nuts.
The family was very nice, from New Jersey, the younger son in the picture, Nick, was very frightened when this all happened, by this point he was all smiles, knowing they were going to be ok. Everyone we met was from New York, New Jersey or Boston. I didn't realize it only takes them 4 1/2 hours to get there, from the west coast it's 3 hours to Houston and then 4 1/2 to Aruba.
Yay! We finally made it to Aruba, we left Redlands at 9:00pm Friday night for the 12:45 am red eye to Houston, that flight was delayed for Houston's bad weather and then we were delayed in Houston waiting for some other planes to come in.
First night adventure, we got checked in, cleaned up and went to dinner at The Old Fisherman in Orangestad. We were heading back to the hotel, probably about 5 miles away when a tire comes rolling down the road right towards us. The jeep ahead of us had its left rear tire just fall off. We passed them and then decided maybe we should go back and help. It wasn't easy changing the tire, the jeep was on its axle so it wouldn't jack up high enough so they had to jack it up, put the tire under it and then lower the jack and lifted it up high enough to get the tire back on the three of five bolts that were left. It's just about done here, Brent and Craig showed the son how to work the jack and tighten up the lug nuts. Craig checked the other tires, two of them had very loose lug nuts.
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