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Tuesday 3 January 2017

A Happy New Year for everyone!

More than one thousand participants at MooMba’s New Year’s Day dip

The number of partici-
pants at the annual New
Year’s Day dip is growing
explosively, but nobody
had expected that more
than one thousand people
would show up at MooM-
ba Beach to take a dip in
the ocean to welcome the
New Year. On January 1st
at noon sharp, they took
the plunge.
``It’s an unprecedented,
record-breaking number,
which we are extremely
proud of,’’ says Alfons
Linders, the marketing wiz-
zard of the Aruba Wine
And Dine (AWD) group,
who organized the suc-
cessful event. ``Some
youthful partygoers had soup afterwards is sending
extended the festivi- to the various shore loca-
ties for the New Year by tions all over the world, but
taking a dip, others were nobody minded when they
families and lots of visi- went underwater without a
tors, who came down hat. The pea soup tasted
especially for the event. just as good barehead-
A growing number of ed as with a Unox hat.
Arubans is participating, The New Year’s dip at
which is great,’’ he added. MooMba has become
650 Unox hats had been a fun tradition on Aruba.
doled out, the maximum Come and join the fun next
amount that the world- year if you have missed the
wide sponsor of the pea 2017 edition!