Sun, Sissy & St. Thomas!

Where to begin where to begin....My trip to St. Thomas was simply AMAZING.  For those of you who don't know where St. Thomas is it is in the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.  It is small and beautiful! The prettiest place I have ever vacationed in my life! Well, to start off, my mom and I flew there to spend the week for my sister's birthday.  Hillary is living there (lucky huh!?) while she does an internship with Del Sol.  She is there for 5 months! So, we figured why not take advantage of her living there and go see her.  I was so surprised and almost in tears when my cute husband surprised me with the ticket to accompany my mom on this little adventure! Talk about the greatest girls trip ever! WARNING: The majority of this trip was spent in the sun with my mom and sister so I left the tankini's at home...So, forgive me for all the bikini shots! I still think modeset is the hottest....

We flew in Wednesday and got there at like 9:00 where we quickly got settled in at Hillary's cute house where she lives with 3 other girls.  We had our own bed to ourselves and everything! The following day was Hill's big 20 birthday so we spent the day doing this...

Taking a car ferry from St. Thomas island to St. John island where they have the most amazing beaches in the world. I kept laughing at the thought of us sitting in a car on a boat..haha

 I had no idea when I posted this picture before we left that we would actually be going to this exact beach.  This is Trunk Bay, on the island of St. John. I have never seen such blue crystal clear water in my life.  The sand seriously felt like you were walking on flour.  Best beach experience ever!

haha, I just thought this was too funny not to post

Gotta sip a pina when you're on a beach like this!

They had the best snorkling because the water was so clear!

After our fun day at the beach we got cleaned up and went out for Hill's birthday dinner!

This is the view from their patio!

We ate at a cute place called Mim's that was a seafood place right on the beach.  Yum yum!

The following day we woke up and went sailing! Now when I say sailing I mean SAILING! We had all thought we had been sailing before, 10 minutes into our trip it was apparent we had never been sailing like this before...I was almost in tears when we first started because I didn't realize that when they turn the motor off and put the sails up that the boat would tip from the wind as much as it did.  I figured it would tip a little bit, but NO, we are talking the boat would go from flat on the water to the boat tipped so far that the railing would be submerged in the water! I was screaming for my life when we first started to sail cause I thought we were going to flip.  I guess the captain didn't realize we didn't fully understand what sailing really meant.... They ran up to the front of the boat where the 3 of us girls were holding on for dear life and screaming. haha it was SO scary.  I was scared the whole first half that we were going to tip over, but they kept reassuring us we would be fine and that no one has ever fallen in (I seriously think they were lying...). 

The captain mentioned on numerous times that I needed to drink a beer to relax...haha it really was a blast once I got used to it (by used to it I mean used to going from a sitting position to standing position without even moving cause the boat would literally go from horizontal to vertical in a matter of seconds) Here is our beauty.... The Morning Star!

They took us to a spot off of St. John's for some snorkling

Here is Hill calling in the troops for lunch!

They made an amazing lunch for us on this cute table they set up on the boat. It was fine cuisine! We expected paper plates with a sandwich and chips...Nope! It was really fancy and REALLY yummy!

Here we are with our captain and his matey!

We really couldn't have asked for a better Captain and Matey.  Mike and Josh were seriously awesome.  We were laughing hysterically the entire time and they were such gentleman with us women.

 

I seriously felt like they were our BFF's by the end of the day

 

After our day at sea we came home, went to dinner then at 11:00, yes you heard me 11:00, my bedtime, we went out dancing at a club on the beach called Fat Turtles.  Let's just say I felt like I was in high school again dancing with all these single ladies! My mom even came dancing with us! haha we were out till 1:30 getting our groove on it was so fun. 

The following day we spent shopping on the cute streets of St. Thomas!

This is where Hillary works! It was fun to get to see where she spends alot of her time and what she does.

We got THE BEST pina colada's I have ever had at this little place near the water front. Simply DIVINE

We ended with some laying out at Emerald Beach

Sunday we went to church. It was a small room with maybe 20-30 people.  It is amazing how regardless of where you are, how many people are there and how big of a room you have the spirit is just as strong.  Going to church here strengthed my testimony of how exact and precise The Church of Jesus Christ is in it's organization. It literally is just as consistent in a room full of 20 as it is in a chapel full of hundreds.  It was such a good experience. 

We spent the rest of the day soaking in the ray's at Marriott Beach and ended the evening visiting Petersborg (the furthest tip of St. Thomas)

I have my wonderful Mom to thank for making our trip such a good time.  She always likes to eat at the best of the best places and fill the vacation with the funnest things.  Thanks so much for letting me come with you and for spoiling me while we were there.  I appreciate you more than you know!

And Hill, thanks for letting Mom and I come and crash in your room while we visited! I had so much fun and have seriously the best memories from my visit! Sorry if mom and I got annoying....haha

And Jayson, thank you for allowing me to do this. I know this was a sacrifice for you.  You were the Mom and the Dad all week and you did it perfectly! Thanks for spoiling your wifey :) I love your bum!