St. Lucia - honeymoon take 2!

My sister planned a destination wedding to St. Lucia that we just got back from. It was AMAZING!

Day 1: Started early. Early like 3:30am early. We all (mom, brother, his wife, sam, me) met at our house to go to the airport together. There was a lot of excitement, but not too much talking - sleepy people. We flew to Miami and had a layover where we got breakfast and walked around. The Miami airport is HUGE. Back on a plane to fly 3 1/2 hours to St. Lucia. We watched the movie The Big Year (Owen Wilson, Jack Black) - funny, but only watched it because it was on.

Then we landed.

Local beer. Pretty delish

Leaving the airport

Typical house in the village

Rum punches everywhere

Our balcony at the Windjammer Landing

Hills were crazy!

More Rum Punch!

Day 2: We went on a Sugar to Rum Tour. We went to a sugar plantation and learned all about the history of it and how they made the sugar. It was beautiful. Then we learned about a bunch of different rums. The tour leaders said "Ok. Have at it!". So we did.

Coco beans and Cashew nut

The row of Rum we tried. Yum!

We also went into the city. We got food, gifts, and did everything local.

My city friends

Market

 

Day 3: All day tour. We went on a boat around the island, went to a coco plantation, botanical gardens, saw the volcano, and got in the mineral baths. Long day, totally awesome.

polishing the coco nut

Local food. Fried bananas, jerk chicken, salad, fried fish

mineral baths from the volcano

Day 4: The wedding day. We went to Joan's resort (Sandals) and did the all-inclusive thing. Lots of fun.

Getting ready

Day 5: Para sailing, snorkeling, swimming, eating, drinking.....a lazy day :)

Day 6: Go home day :( We didn't have to leave until 11, which was great. We got a last day tour through some villages and ended at the airport. Flight back was easy peasy and we landed in Va at 12:30am. Long day. Long trip. Totally worth it.

I think I'll go for a walk outside, the summer suns callin my name.....

This was the best.day.ever.

Sam and I are going to St. Lucia a week from today. Here's what we'll be looking at :

View from out WindJammer resort

Looks so amazing

We are going because my sister is getting married at the Sandels Resort in St. Lucia. We are staying at the WindJammer. Feel free to Google and be jealous of the pictures. The most important thing about the trip is having a passport. We didn't have valid ones. Until today. We know - leaving in one week and don't have passports! My mom was FREAKING out. I didn't even tell my sister. Hehehehe.

We made appointments at the passport office in D.C. at 8:30. We were told to bring our stuff, applications, and $. We were dreading the drive into D.C. at 8:30am. What a traffic nightmare. This is what it normally looks like:

Awful. But not today. Today we sailed into D.C. It was amazing. We parked for $16 in a garage UNDER the passport office! What?! How lucky are we? Our appointment was at 8:30 and by 9:15 we were told to come back at 2:00 to pick up our passports. Yeah!!!!!

We spent the morning walking around D.C. We felt very Metro. We were looking for a bookstore when we came upon Characters Unite. They said we could make a t-shirt and it was free. Sam almost ran to the booth. So, we took a pledge and stated what we wanted to take a stand on. We both picked bullying and made our shirt.

 I am pretty excited to wear this to school on Friday.

We found a GREAT place for lunch. Nando Peri Peri. It was the best chicken I've had in a long time.

Mediterranean Salad with Chicken and a side of mashed peas. Yum!

We walked around some more and headed back near the passport office. They said 2:00, but we got there around 12:45 to use the bathroom - not alot of public bathrooms in DC. The security guy told us to check on the passports, they might be done. By 1:00 we were walking out with passports in hand! Look out - we are international now!

A fun day with my husband, getting things done and relaxing. Doesn't get much better than that.