St Thomas VI

I LOVE St Thomas.  One of Bret and I's stops during our honeymoon cruise was St. Thomas, so we were really excited to be able to make the trip again 6 years later!

one of the docks around the island...this one is at red hook

so.  if you know me, you know that i'm not a big drinker.  i never have been.  lucky for me, bret's customer that came along is also not a big drinker.  on our second full day of the trip. we went out exploring in st thomas and ended up at a really fun bar.  sahsha (the customer) spied these plastic alligators at the bar and commented on how her 3 year old son would love one.  i thought e would too, so we asked what we had to do to get an alligator.  it turns out we had to take a shot..out of the alligator.  anything for the kids...and we even convinced the boys to join in so that both e and g could have an alligator : )!

coki beach...super beautiful beach.  we stopped here  to visit coral world on our mission to find great souvenirs.

i got up close and personal with a couple of iguanas just chilling around coral world

cruise ship!  our hotel was very close to a port where the cruise ships stop in, so we saw a lot of cruise ships throughout the week

one of the pools at our hotel

another view from the hotel

the group (almost...we were missing one ferguson couple).

leaving st thomas en route to st john

all bret wanted to do was snorkel!  so, we planned a trip over to st. john to visit the famous trunk bay (a beautiful beach that is wonderful for snorkeling).  this was neat for bret and i because we made this same trip over 6 years ago on our honeymoon!

bret and jason getting ready to head out in the water!

and off he goes : )

somehow we ended up at duffy's love shack (bar with the alligators) again??  and, of course, the drinks were chosen completely by the glasses they came in.  bret got one that came in a shark for evan, and i got one that came in a monkey for gracie.

on our last full day (after all the customers and most ferguson people had already left), bret and i planned an afternoon to go snorkeling with sea turtles!  i was in heaven!!  i was a smidge nervous considering my less than stellar performance on the last catamaran i was on in hawaii, but this turned out to be MUCH better!  two 45 minute trips, and I was even slightly nauseous!!  we bought an underwater camera to take pictures, and i did take 27 pictures of sea turtles.  however, after developing the pictures, we discovered that you really can't tell that the pictures are of turtles..more like small slightly darker blobs in the distance...oh well!  the water really was incredibly clear, and it was really neat to see the turtles swimming along.

more views from the hotel!

and one of the many iguanas that hung out around the hotel

view from the rum bar at the hotel...