island effervescent
Cruz Bay, St. John, VI
So, the Virgin Islands, one word: glorious. Well, many words. Effervescent, unconstrained, buoyant, wonderful. The worst part: 96ish degrees F everyday with high humidity. I am a jeans and tshirt kind of gal. The best parts: Spending tons of time with my besties L&K WITHOUT their kiddos for hours and hours...days in fact, this hasn't happened since their oldest Lauren was born over 9 years ago! It was like the old days; tooling around, beaches, swimming in the BEAUTIFUL ocean, eating and drinking, laughing, laughing, laughing. We had so much fun.
I shared a condo with three other girls--teacher friends of College Kim's--and that wound up being great too.
The night of the wedding--since the reception ended ridiculously early--we all met for drinks after we'd changed and hopped around to three different bars. Some of us headed to Hawksnest Bay for a late night swim in the bio-luminescent waters. It was so cool.
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