Day one of 30 days of biking! It’s going to be a sort of short ride for the first few days..
Yesterday was “transfer day” in the VI.. It’s the day the islands where transferred from Denmark to the USA. So there are celebrations.. This is Kiki’s Fire dancers preforming at the resort behind Kathi’s apartment.
On the Hike to Isaac’s bay to swim, Melinda wanted me to take a picture. “Hey Dad, take a picture of me on the precipice of this deadly cliff!” My Mother is rolling in her grave.
A nice pic on the hike on the way to Isaac’s bay. This is on the easternmost side of the island. The east side of the island is desert like, the West side of the island is rainforest like. Interesting that way.
Rockwell getting his chance to climb on deadly rocks at Isaac’s bay. This is a nature preserve, so you are not allowed to bring anything here but a backpack.
This at the “Palms at Pelican cove” resort right behind Kathi’s apartment. We walk over there for a beer and a swim on a whim. Gotta’ like a steel drum player. This guy was pretty good. Sitting listening to him and watching the water. The beer in my hand helps.
Had a good flight in. Tried to surprise the kids, but they just sort of stared in shock… So much for the surprise! Melinda has taken a bunch of good pictures while she has been here. Let me share a few with you. … Just. as. soon as I figure out how to share Chromebook pics. 🙂
I’m just going to highlight a couple pictures.. I took over 100 of them, but here are half a dozen exceptional ones.
We started our trip by driving down to Florida to fly out of Miami. (The tickets where significantly cheaper from there as apposed to Augusta) So on the way down, we had to stop to see Kennedy space center. We got to the KSC an hour early, (we had 8 hours to get to Miami~4 hours away)
They open at 10am.. that’s OK, we will wait. The kids donned some skates and had some fun skating in the very empty and very large parking lot.
About a half hour in, I said to myself.. ” um, how much are the admission tickets anyway?” So I walked up to the gate.. 44$ for kids, 55$ for adults?? Are they crazy? I guess if I was going to go there all day, but not a chance for a hour or two. So we went to search for some freebies. We found this Mercury Redstone rocket in a NASA office parking lot down the road.
OK, so we got through the airports, OntoSt Croix, and eventually, to the beach! (OK, I know I skipped a bunch of steps.. sue me)
I thought this nannyrama was pretty cool. Hannah is on the right.
one of the sights we visited was at the Eastern most point of the Island, and technically, within a mile or two of the easternmost point of US property… I gotta say, this was cool. the Easternmost antenna of the VLBA!
We got a little closer, and I got Hannah in the picture.
Then, on the last day, we went to a Boxing Day celebration at a camp on the west coast in the rain forest. On the way there, no big deal, we just came across a 10 foot long, 200 pound Boa Constrictor.
We finally got to the camp. Its actually owned by a neighbor of kath and the kids. Here is the food line.
At that camp, they had a cool turtle sanctuary. Are my kids afraid of nature? I don’t think so.
I will load more later. Glad to be back. I will miss the kids, but I think the adventure will be worth it for them.
This is a view from the apartment. It overlooks downtown Christianstead.
Lots of Lutheran churches here, BTW… And Verna asked about the kids being happy here; I think they are. they made friends already, and I think its going to be a grand adventure if they behave. I hope they don’t drive Kath crazy.. that would make the adventure not as good.
I’m going home tomorrow morning… My adventure is almost over.
Wait till you see some of the pictures we took today! A huge boa constrictor, some cool turtles, a wild Iguana, all in one day.
We spent Christmas together in St. Croix USVI this year. When I get back I will load pictures.. (slow connection, and.. I cant get my pics off my camera. 🙁 )
Here is one from Kath’s facebook;
Sorry Kath, you will have to wait for me to get home to see one with you in it.
I have some good ones!
Anyway, looking forward to being back and getting some work done. Not looking forward to being away from the kids. I’m flying out tomorrow morning.
Anyone want to give me a ride from Atlanta?
Kath has an account on this blog now, hopefully I can talk her into posting from here.
And I don’t have my editing software loaded on this temporary machine.
I think I have over 200 pictures to choose from to load.. two different caves, a water park, the party, the campground, the amusement park.. jeeesh, I did not realize we did so much!
I’ll load them soon. I also have a lot of photos to scan also…
