Family celebration, she said.
This is interesting from CTV boards:
"So....you're asked about a girl you were seen with because no one has seen her for a day...how do you know she didn't just 'bag' her classmates to stay in Aruba and have fun? Why jump to a conclusion that something sinister has happened to her? "Yeah, officer, we hung then went to the beach. I gave it my best shot she turned me down and I walked away and called my friend to come get me." Sounds reasonable to me...at that point YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW ANYTHING HAPPENED TO HER."
Not so incidentally......where WERE those responsible adults...i.e. chaperons? I was one of many chaperons for a group of HS students to DC once, and we worked in shifts patrolling the hotel halls during the night to make SURE no student slipped out and got into trouble.