March 17, 2009
Caribbean Days
Caribbean sunshine, best times with friends and family for many days, straight. Absolutely wonderful. To have my Mom and her best friend/cousin, Karen, along with Meagen and I was like a dream come true. Through the years I’ve seen my Mom’s beautiful friendship with Karen from afar; it was so nice to see it, live it, and be with it. It was equally as nice to share Meagen with the both of them. The traveling was a bit rough – not one flight on time, cutting things very close – but aside from that, it was a beautiful week in every way one could imagine.
Full doses of Vitamin D and laughter. Dancing and good music. Great food (too much!), I definitely got my fill for awhile haha. Dips in the ocean and beautiful scenery. These things were with us every day. The special times of our trip are as follows. In Aruba, Meagen and I crashed a resort for “guests only,” the trick was to not use our cruise towels and just fit in. By the end of the afternoon we were playing catch with a football with the guests. Come to find out, haha, my Mom and Karen were doing the same – being Resort Crashers – on the other side of Aruba. In Curacao my Mom and Karen swam with the dolphins and had a great time. After watching the video I do not think that I have ever seen such genuine happiness and pure joy on my Mom’s face. Karen too. It was mucho $ so Meag and I stayed back and enjoyed the scenery. It is now on my list of things to do in my lifetime. In St. Marteen we visited Orient (nude) beach and it was a brand new day in our lives. Refreshing is all that I will say…and not only because of the endless rum punch! St. Thomas was gorgeous – I think my favorite of them all. I want to go back. Very green and alive. So much to look forward to. The days cruising from one place to another were spent with good work outs in the morning and hours of hanging poolside. Meag and I met lots of great people between the pool, the club, and the nighttime activities such as Karyoke, shows and games. There are so many good, good people out there…this trip was a reminder of that. Our waiters and people on our floor were so very nice. Meag and I smuggled lobster dinners to our favorite workers. That was one of my favorite adventures, just because we made him so, so happy.
The trip ended in the Puerto Rico airport on the floor for many hours. I gave Meag a big hug goodbye (her flight was on time), and sat with my Mom and Karen and two other of Karen’s friends. We were packed in like sardines, hot and sweaty – but it was fine, I was just elated to be with the company I was with after so much of my recent time, especially this past fall, being spent so entirely alone.
It is match week right now. I matched, I just do not know where. Believe it or not, all last week I hardly thought of it. That is how relaxed I was, I did not think that would ever happen! Thursday is THE day!! I am anxious, but waiting patiently. If it is as I hope – an offer will be out on the condo soon!! Woohoo!
Here are some pictures
One last thing. On the flight from Puerto Rico to Atlanta the pilot says “If you are on the right side of the plane, look out, you will see a space shuttle that just launched.” My mom and I were on the right side, by the window of the jumbo jet – not only could we see it (not too far!) we saw it change from bright light to having a streak of colors trailing, to then having the booster jets break off from the main shuttle. Talk about a once in a lifetime experience. Something that requires such perfect timing that we were flying near just at the perfect time to catch such an amazing event. As Meagen would say – “it was a God-incidence.”
Love.
