Message #244

[Johan555]

is this Fake ?

Afgelopen zondag publiceerde een medescholier van Natalee die bij haar op de kamer zat tijdens de Aruba trip het volgende stukje op haar weblog.
Inmiddels is het er al weer vanaf gehaald.
Mackin McKinney - Natalee’s Aruba Roommate

This is a name I’ve known as a MB student, but I don’t remember ever
hearing she was one of Natalee’s roommates.

Mackin McKinney Blog (Natalee’s Friend)

http://mackinmckinney.blogspot.com/2008/04/natalee-holloway.html

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Natalee Holloway

We had just had celebrated our big high school graduation and were scheduled to go to Aruba the next morning. There were one hundred and twenty five of our best friends going down to celebrate after finally graduating from Mountain Brook High School. A group of us had spent the night at my house the so that we could get up early and all head to the airport together. We talked about all the fun things we wanted to do and how excited we all were, as we were all completely oblivious to what was about to happen. I never would have guessed that this would be the last time that Natalee would be in my house with all of us.

Our flight was scheduled to leave at seven in the morning so we had to get up very early. None of us really had slept the night before because we were all too excited. We finally arrived in Aruba and were greeted by buses that were going to take us to our resort. It was an all inclusive hotel that had tons of places to eat and bars on the property. We had to decide who was going to be in our rooms before we arrived and there was a door that opened to the next room to combine them. Natalee and I shared a room with two other girls along with four more of our friends in the next room. Everyone was so excited that we immediately put on our bathing suits and headed to the pool. The first night everyone decided to stay at the hotel and just go to the bars and the casinos. We were having a ball and everyone was so laid back and care free.

As our trip was coming to a close on our last night everyone decided that we were going to ride the bus into town and go to the hot spot Carlos and Charlies. We were scheduled to go out on a day cruise on a sailboat for the day and then were going to go home and eat dinner before we headed out for our big night on the town. The sailboat was amazing and there was a bar on the boat so all of us were laying out on the front of the boat getting sun and enjoying our tropical drinks. Natalee and all of us began to talk about these guys that we had met in the casino the night before and how they had said that they were going to go to Carlos and Charlies also. None of us really had wanted to be around them, but they had come to our hotel and started conversation with all of us.

We got in from the day out on the water and ran to our rooms to shower and get ready for dinner and a crazy last night in Aruba. After enjoying a nice dinner at the hotel, all of us loaded up onto the buses and headed into town. The bar was so crowded and everyone began drinking and dancing. The bar tenders were getting people on stage to compete in contest and of course all of our friends were on stage. It began getting late and the bar was closing so all of us were forced outside into the street. Most of the group was together, but none of us could find Natalee. The bar was so crazy when everyone was leaving that there was no trying to find someone cause everyone was pushing and shoving and of course had lots to drink. Everyone began cramming into cabs and headed back to the hotel. There was another group that had gone to another bar so most of us figured Natalee had gone with them. Everyone was exhausted and ready to go to bed so when we got back to the hotel we fell right to sleep.

We woke up the next morning to find that Natalee was not in our room and figured that she had just stayed in another room. Natalee was never the type to be late and would never miss something like a flight home. It was getting close to the time we were supposed to leave for the airport and there was still no sign of Natalee. Me and some of my friends began to cry and started to seriously worry about Natalee. One of our teachers that was on the trip stayed behind and called Natalee’s parents and told them to head down to Aruba immediately that Natalee didn’t return home from the bar the night before. All of us were freaking out and didn’t know what to do. We had tried to stay behind with our teacher but they wouldn’t let us.

The night we got home everyone came over to my house to spend the night and we had heard that there was to be an announcement on the news stating that Natalee Holloway was missing on a graduation trip and hadn’t returned home from Aruba. All of us were in shock and had a really hard time dealing with everything that was going on. We didn’t know what to do and had no clue that our lives were about to change. One of our best friends had gone missing and we didn’t know if she was dead or alive.