alexbenke.com http://www.alexbenke.com/blog you must do the things you think you cannot do... Sun, 08 Aug 2010 03:06:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 alexbenkebloghttp://feedburner.google.com What do you want? http://www.alexbenke.com/blog/2010/03/28/what-do-you-want/ http://www.alexbenke.com/blog/2010/03/28/what-do-you-want/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:18:16 +0000 Alex Benke http://www.alexbenke.com/blog/?p=65 “The price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted.” – Neil Gaiman, Sandman (via @tferriss)

]]> http://www.alexbenke.com/blog/2010/03/28/what-do-you-want/feed/ 0 Aruba with the little one http://www.alexbenke.com/blog/2010/02/01/aruba-with-the-little-one/ http://www.alexbenke.com/blog/2010/02/01/aruba-with-the-little-one/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:41:34 +0000 Alex Benke http://www.alexbenke.com/blog/?p=88 Did you know my little angel was an experienced international traveler at 3 months?  That’s right!  Lisa and I took a baby-moon to Aruba in January, and stayed at our favorite place, the Radisson.  The trip was our first with a munchkin in tow, and it worked out very well.  3mos is quite possibly the perfect age to travel – we at out every night late, and she slept through dinner every time!  During the day, Little Amalia was tough to keep out of the sun with her incredibly pure white skin (no sunblock until 6mos), but she enjoyed her little beach tent. If you haven’t been to Aruba, we highly recommend it. The beaches are amazing, white sugar-like sand. The Radisson has palapas on the beach that you rent for free each morning (see in the background of this picture) to give refuge from the incredibly hot sun. The wind is great for water sports – in fact, Aruba is the windsurfing capital of the world. I did some windsurfing for my first time, learning from some Dutch kids way down at the end of the beach, past all the commercial lesson places. It was an awesome experience, but now I want to try kite-surfing – they were zipping all around me during the few hours I was out.


Even babies need passports – check out Amalia’s passport picture! Imagine, this is good until she’s 5 yrs old!

Check out the Picture album from the trip.

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