I have no idea whether Natalee's parents knew what went on - it does bother me though that I've heard her mom say that she'd been to Aruba before.. (maybe it was ages ago..) and that Jug's son had been there a few years ago - he even told them that Carlos and Charlies was a very wild place.
I am NOT blaming Natalee or her family in ANY way - I am just saying as the mom of 21 year old and 16 year old boys.. (or men .. depending on their frame of mind on any given day.. ;) ) It makes me look more carefully at what they are doing and who they are doing things with...
It also has brought about MANY conversations in our house as to appropriate places to go and appropriate times to be home. As well as reporting in (these things pertaining more to the 16 year old of course - but since the 21 year old lives at home we've had the ... "As a courtesy - so I can sleep - please let me know what time you'll be home" speech...
I suspect when it is all over, she will be the first one to want to educate parents about sending their kids to foreign countries on vacation.
She didn't know what was going on over there either..poor lady.
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