Day 1 in Paradise

We spent 5 nights in the US Virgin Islands. It was a dream! Even the flights were great...but I'm sure it's all relative. 6+ hours of flying sounds awful to some, but when you're used to flying alone with 3 kids, being alone with your husband instead is a pretty quiet upgrade. We watched a movie, napped, read, snacked, and talked a lot. It wasn't too shabby.

Our first adventure: the road to our Bed and Breakfast.
Ummm...civilization much?
We felt like we were in the line for Disney Jungle Cruise


Hmm...make that Indiana Jones Adventure....Minus any concern for general safety.

But just over the hill was Secret Harbor beach.

We swam, relaxed, and enjoyed people watching the one other group on the beach that evening-a pair of middle aged drunk guys from Chicago and their wives and teenage daughters. Guy #1 swam out to the floating dock and gave us a free show where he impersonated Flipper, then sang "This is How We Do It" about 10 times. With a dance. He did the running man and the cabbage patch justice. It was quite hillarious. They kept asking me if I was getting married, because of the flower in my hair. They left when their daughter swam out to the dock to pull her father off his "stage" and was stung by a sting ray.

Aaron and I watched the sunset with only the sound of the ocean and steel drums. It was great. We ate dinner at an outdoor grill right on the water. It was perfect!

I'm not going to lie, on our way back from the beach, we ended up walking down this road in total darkness. It was pitch black outside and we kept falling into huge pits in the road. There was buzzing in our ears, and then we heard large somethings scurrying past our feet into the brush.

All huddled together, we walked like a couple of scaredy cats walking through a haunted house.

The next morning, we woke to realize we had been eaten alive by mosquitos on our little night hike. Like I had more than 50 bites on one ankle.

In the light of the day, we discovered what had been crawling past our feet in the dark.

Ahhhh! They are so prehistoric looking. And reeeeally creepy. And they are everywhere. Like squirrels. Aaron was like, "is this an episode of Land of the Lost?"
Yeah, we rented a car.

Other than the creepy location and even creepier owner, the B&B was nice.
Our private balcony had an awesome view of Red Hook Harbor, and we woke up to the sounds of ships coming in and roosters crowing. We ate breakfast on the balcony and headed out for Day 2!