Family

Ahhhhhhh…..

Not leaving until Sunday..

Ahhh… awoken earlier by the sunlight from the 5:50am sunrise. Just wrapped up a nice breakfast down by the ocean..

Time to get covered in sunblock and head down to the beach for a fine morning of reading The Guns of August

Life is grand…

Sitting on the terrace overlooking the Atlantic here in St. Croix…
A full glass of Talisker on ice…
Nothing but the wind and the crashing waves filling my ears…

Heaven…

A couple additional views of the resort we’re staying at – this is facing away from the ocean from the grass near our rooms:

Unfortunately, it wasn’t me or a member of my family doing this, but during lunch yesterday we were treated to this just off of the coast of our hotel:

Neat!

I awoke this morning to the scent of salt and this view from the terrace outside of the room:

6:45am. What a way to wake up…..

Traveled from the eastern side of St. Croix this evening into Christensted (one of only two larger towns here) for “Jump-Up” which is a unique street festival consisting of mainly steel drum bands and alot of drinking.

When in Rome, do as the Romans… yeah, so I had many chilled (and frozen) adult beverages.

Quite tasty let me tell you.

The steel drum band below was the largest and the most entertaining – they attracted quite the crowd:

This was the first place I’ve ever been to where one could walk around and drink alcohol in the streets – or even get it made on the street, as we saw with this fellow who was running a full service bar out of the back end of his pickup. Note the presence of the current brother-in-law prospect standing against the truck.

Small world, by the way, as the “bartender” of this particular establishment was from Connecticut – noted by his t-shirt.

After an afternoon of this, returned to the resort and had a few more fine frozen drinks at the oceanside bar. Now I sit on my terrace overlooking the ocean with a large glass of water (to avoid the hangover you see) and ponder the day’s events.

Only nine more nights of this bliss….