Saturday, May 6, 2017

Back from St. Croix

We're home!

Kevin and I spent the last 2 weeks driving to Michigan, leaving the kids with my parents, flying to St. Croix, hanging out for a fantastic week, and then flying home on Thursday. We pulled our stuff together and drove back to Ohio yesterday.

We had a GREAT week.  St. Croix is a lovely place for a couple wanting to just hang out at the beach.  We did a little more than that, but we spent a lot of time in the water snorkeling and on the beach walking on lovely wet sand.

We stayed in a little place that had the air of a mom and pop establishment.  Each room is individual and our room, while not large, had a lovely king sized bed, an adequate bathroom, and a charming little kitchen.  It oozed personality and creativity. We napped every day, I think, and waking up to the beamed ceiling with the knowledge that our kids were 1500 miles away and being cared for well was a delight.  I am so happy to be home now, I missed my kids, but just being able to nap whenever we wanted was a little bit of paradise!

The place where we stayed had a curious little group of people who are monitoring the egg laying of giant leatherback turtles at a nearby preserve.  They are staying for 3 full months and spend the night out on the beach, looking for turtles.  They tag the turtles and move the eggs if they are in a dangerous place (in terms of shifting sands and erosion.)  A young lady gave an interesting talk on Tuesday night about the turtles.  They are huge -- full grown like 900 lbs. But when they are laying eggs, they enter some kind of trance and don't care if humans mess with them.  Most interesting.

Well, today is super busy so I'm going to sign off.  Pictures later.

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