St. Lucia

It was so nice to be on vacation! And it was even nicer because we didn't do ANYTHING. We flew to Dallas first, spent the night there and saw a friend of ours who lives there. The next morning we got up at 3am to make the shuttle at 4am for our 6am flight out of DFW. Soooo earllllyyy... Nothing was even open when we got to the airport, including security, so we just hung out for a while. Then, about 45 minutes after going through security the food places started to open and we were able to eat at Einstein Bros Bagels. Then we hopped on the plane to Miami. Once in Miami we had just about an hour layover then on to St. Lucia. We tried to sleep but to no avail. It was a 3 hour and 40 minute flight to St. Lucia, then once we got there we had to drive another hour and 20 minutes. We were all exhausted and tired of being in a bumpy vehicle, but it was cool to see some of the island. We made it to the resort at about 3pm, were escorted to the concierge office, and signed in. They offered us champagne but were very confused when we declined. We just wanted a big glass of sweet tea, lol. Then we were taken to our room, which was beautiful! It had a downstairs livingroom with a TV and a nice porch, then upstairs was the bedroom and bathroom.

After we got settled in to our room we went to the beach for a little while before dinner. The sunsets are amazing and we were so excited to be on the beach! Then we ate dinner at the Italian restaurant and then went to bed early.

The next morning we got up, ate breakfast, and were greeted by some friendly critters at our breakfast table.

After a delicious breakfast buffet that we ate every morning, we went back to the room to get ready for a day of relaxing on the beach. We literally layed out, both in the sun and in the shade, reading, and swam every once in a while. We did this the whole time we were there, except for twice. It was so relaxing. I tried a couple of drinks while we were there but didn't find anything I would order at a restaurant because I didn't like them that much. There were servers walking around the beach with flavored water (pineapple one day, lime the next day) that was delicious. It was just relaxing and there was no stress at all.




We ate at some wonderful restaurants while we were there, some of which our concierge had to make reservations for us for. (We were spoiled, and we didn't even really know what to do with a concierge...) We ate at a French restaurant called La Toc. Then a Japanese restaurant- Kimonos. An international restaurant- The Pavillion. And finally the local cuisine- Pitons. The food was very nicely portioned and we never felt like we overate. For lunch we either ate at the lunch buffet or had pizza or chips and salsa at Arizonas and had a meal at Cricketers- the Pub. It was definitely interesting.






The only two things we did while we were there were ride the aqua bike and go snorkling. We did those things on two separate days and they were both pretty fun, though one was definitely more physically demanding than the other.



Overall it was a wonderful trip, and if it wasn't so far away we would go back in a heartbeat. We had to get up at 3:45am to leave on Tuesday morning. Our flight left at 7:25am, but they had us get to the airport at 5am, which was too early because the ticket counters weren't even open yet. It is a good thing we were there a little early, though, because somehow our flight from DFW to ABQ was missing from our itinerary. They got it straightened out with a couple of phone calls, but it was a little tense there for a while. We went to 4 countries that day- St. Lucia, Martinique (to refuel the plane. It was a 14 minute flight from St. Lucia to Martinique, but it added about 45 minutes to our flight.), Puerto Rico, the USA. It was a long, tiring day but we made it home in time to eat dinner then I went to bed early. I will try to post more pictures later, but this is a pretty good smattering of what we did.