St. Croix, Virgin Islands!

OK, the lucky streak in my family has finally caught up with me! On June 5th (Saturday) around 7:00 AM, I called into KBULL93 to try and win "Eclipse" movie tickets. *Quick side note, I usually don't try for things unless I really want it!* Anyway, I was the right caller and won my movie tix! YAY!
So the DJ says, "listen Monday morning at 7:15 for your chance to win a trip to the Virgin Islands..." Then after being on hold he says, "actually listen at 8:20 for the trip." OK, so Monday comes around and I thought 8:20 was a weird time to do a trip, so I was listening at 7:15 just in case. Sure enough, the trip was given away at 7:15, only to someone else! DANG! So I called Jared to tell him we weren't going. I get going with my morning and randomly at 8:20 I hear my name on the radio! I wasn't paying close enough attention to really hear what they were saying it for, but I guessed if you hear your name on the radio, it has to be a good thing, right?! Anyway, when I called Jared I was pretty much freaking out so he didn't really understand what was going on!! :)
Once I got all the details, they said we were leaving that coming Friday! WHAT?! I just won a free trip and I don't have to wait forever before leaving? SWEET!
So we took Zack to Jared's parents house Thursday night because our flight left SLC at 11:45 PM. We got to NYC (That was torture, for anyone that knows my previous struggles getting to NYC!) at 6:00 AM. Left NYC around 9:00 AM and flew to St. Thomas, arriving about 1:30 PM. Waiting there, we took the smallest plane at about 3:00 PM to St. Croix, and getting there around 3:30 PM. LONG day of flying and waiting!


ANYWAY, once we got to our hotel, I was in heaven! Our room opened right up onto the beach, and it was gorgeous there!! Friday night we were so tired that we went to a little pizza place they had, walked around the hotel area, and ended up falling asleep by 8:00 that night.


Saturday we decided to take a taxi to a town there called Christiansted. It was so interesting to see how different things were there. So beautiful in so many ways too. Lots of different colors of buildings (totally run down), laid back people not in a hurry to go and do all day, and just plain amazing ocean views!


Later that afternoon, we were able to go sailing on a sunset cruise. WOW again!! The people we were with were a little less than fun (MAJOR drunk!) but the water and sky were breathtaking. After sailing, we went back for a little swimming in the pool.




Sunday we decided to go snorkeling at Buck Island (I guess it was made a National Park too.). That was easily the highlight of our whole weekend! The beach literally was out of a magazine gorgeous. The water felt like a bathtub it was so warm and calm, and the snorkeling was the coolest! I don't even know how else to describe it. All I can say is if you are ever in the mood for snorkeling, and you want a good place to go, THAT is the place!



Jared did a little snorkeling with his wallet! Oops!!

Monday we came home... only that was the longest day ever! All the flights were delayed, and we didn't get home until 1:30 AM. Ugh... I'm good to go on the flying for a little while :)
YAY for a free trip though!!!!

Memorial weekend

It's becoming a tradition very quickly... anytime we have an extended holiday weekend, we most likely will be found in St. George! No complaints here though!!!

We went to George Thursday afternoon with my mom, and almost instantly Zack got sick. BUMMER PART OF THE WEEKEND. Anyway, we hung out at Amanda's house that night and mostly just visited. The best part about her house is that she has a perfect little backyard that we just sat outside and talked. Perfect weather to go with it too, until those dang sprinklers turned on on us! :)
Also that night, Josh and Amanda were "sharing" those really gross, nasty jelly beans. Jared graciously took the black bean, which could have been either black licorice or skunk spray. He got the skunk and seriously he smelled terrible after that! I went with the one that ended up being pencil shavings. In comparison to skunk, it seems so mild, but I am here to tell you that I will NEVER eat another trick jelly bean again in my life! Just chewing that dang thing, the texture actually turned into pencil shavings!! Needless to say, I was awake a lot in the night feeling like I was going to throw up.



Ugh, onto better things! Friday, Amber and her kids came. While everyone was at work, we took Zack to the dr. to make sure he didn't have anything major going on (since he was having some really high temperatures, coughing, runny nose, throwing up, etc.). It was nice to hear that he had broncitis, but not fun because there is no meds to help it go away faster. Oh well, he's better now :)


Saturday we did a little swimming, shopping, golfing (Jared), Pizza Factory (a fav!), and visited Beck at her new job, The Sweet Tooth Fairy! YUM! Busy day.
Sunday we did church and then that night had a picnic. Monday we mostly hung out until we decided we should head home again. Hardest part about the weekend... time always goes so fast!




PS - Zack was in LOVE with Charlie!! He would run around the house constantly saying "Arlie, Arlie, etc." It was so cute. Then Tuesday morning when we were home and he woke up, he immediately was looking for "Arlie". Then on Wednesday when I heard him wake up from his nap, he was calling for "Arlie" to come! So cute! He loves Chars! wink, wink!