Tuesday, August 24, 2010

What a vacation!

To celebrate our one year anniversary we went to Antigua. It is such a beautiful island. Craig and Val also joined us. This was the first time they have been out of the country. It was such a great experience to share together.


This is our resort that we stayed at.

This is our room. We also had concierge service. It was pretty amazing. There was a fully stocked bar that we enjoyed.

The view from our room. I would sit there every morning while Josh was asleep and just relax. It was hard to believe that I was in such a beautiful place.


This is one of the restaurants in the resort called "Barefoot by the Sea".


There was a public beach at our resort, so they had it gated off. This is the view from our resort.
One of the path that we walked on frequently. So pretty. Everything was just so green.


One day we went to the city. Everything was really colorful. I bought a Guess purse.....duty free!!


As we were walking to catch a cab to the city, it started pouring rain. We were all soaked, but decided to go to the city anyways. It worked out fine, the rain stopped, and we all eventually dried.
Our 2nd night in Antigua was our 1 year anniversary. We went to a nice Italian restaurant and had a romantic dinner. We decided to take a picture that looked like one you would take a your high school prom.

One of the days we did a sunset catarmaran cruise. We toured the island and drank champagne and beer. It doesn't get better than that! This was one of the guys working the boat.
As this point I am starting to get pretty tan.
Cruisin' on the catarmaran.
We spent most of our days at the pool. The pool was huge, and had a great swim-up bar.
On vacation, I got to read, tan, drink, and relax. It doesn't get better than that.

All of us with our favorite island drinks. Everyday they had a "drink of the day". Craig made sure to sample it everyday. Craigs job on the vacation was to fetch us drinks from the bar. He did an amazing job.
We went snorkeling. This was Craig and Val's first time to snorkel. Even though we all had a life jacket on, at one point Josh and I looked over and saw Craig flailing his arms like he was drowning. It was one of the funniest things I have ever seen!

One day we did the water bike. That is much harder than it looks. We didn't get out very far before I realized my legs were tired and we needed to turn back.

We only went to the beach once. The water was heavenly. It felt like bath tub water.
The trip was so much fun. It is amazing how fast 8 days can go when you are just relaxing. I really missed my Bailee while we were gone, so that was the only thing keeping me from staying in Antigua!

1 comment:

Julie said...

What a wonderful vacation! Beautiful pictures!