We’re in Aruba this week because I won a seat at the Aruba Classic. We flew in yesterday on a trip that took more than 12 hours. So far, it has been excellent. The kids were really well behaved on the trip.

Aruba is a nice touristy town. Hot and humid of course. The beaches are clean and not too crowded. Prices are high, but English and USD are pretty much everywhere. There’s a lot of American restaurant chains, McDonalds, Wendy’s, TGIF, Tony Roma’s, Sbarros, Hooters. We ate at one of the the hotel’s restaurants having a decent prime rib buffet dinner.

Ultimate Bet and the Radisson have really gone all out. UB has a pretty big staff on hand and they reserved the whole hotel. The UB branding is everywhere. We got a nice bag of schwag which includes a decent bag, 2 shirts, a deck of UB cards, a silkscreened wrap. In addition to that bag, I got a second pretty nice shoulder bag because I’m a VIP online.

The tournament starts on Monday at noon(local time is EST), but I don’t play until noon on Tuesday, because the whole family is here I won’t be playing cards much until Tuesday. I’ll try to get an hour or two of poker in after they go to sleep. I played a bit last night. At the end of the night I overheard them at the 5/10 plo table next to me explaining to a player that he had to play exactly two cards. Obviously I was in the wrong game. Results for last night: 2 hours at 2/5 cash nlhe +$50.

I’ll try to twitter results too when the tournament starts.

There’s a change coming, a change we can believe in. Lucas went pee in the toilet for the first time at home yesterday.

I made a deal with my parents. I promised not to give Barack Obama any more money if they didn’t give John McCain any more money. Unfortunately, I think I got the worse end of the deal because they weren’t going to give him that much, while I might be willing to give the limit to Barack. My dad mentioned that we could do mutual abstaining, but that doesn’t really matter because both our states are solidly decided already. Maybe I can have Tracy give to Barack instead.