First week in Paradise!

Hanging out at Chenay Bay

Sunset

      So we have been in St. Croix, USVI for 1 week now. Pure paradise, and we get to work here for an entire assignment! How amazing is that? We arrived last Sunday, May 13 on a "crop duster" as Hayley calls them. Our plane ride from St. Thomas to St. Croix was on an 8 passenger plane and there were 9 of us so I got to be the co-pilot! If only I really got to fly it! Oh well. So once we got our luggage, we met the realtor at Avis, got our cars and headed to our condo, driving on the left side of the road. This is going to take some getting used to for sure! So we finally made it to our condo (without and accident), and walked into what felt like a sauna! Our condo is completely open to the outside with a screen in porch and NO air conditioner. We are in the process of trying to move condo's right now, so hopefully in the next few weeks we can move to somewhere a little bit cooler.

    Well anyways, all last week was orientation and we also headed to the beach almost everyday afterwards. We've met a bunch of cool travelers, and one happens to be from Mobile, Al, Dana! Dan is from Pittsburgh, Reggie is from Boise, Heather is from New Hampshire, and Sheila from Nebraska. We've all had a blast hanging out and getting to know each other this week/weekend. 

Dana, Elizabeth, Hayley, Sheila, Heather
Reggie, Dan

Hayley, Sheila, Dana, Heather, Elizabeth at Chenay Bay

     My friend Elton from college came to visit this weekend and we tried to show him a good time. Was a little hard since we hadn't even been here a week, but I think we succeeded! Thursday we headed to Chenay Beach and then Cheeseburger and Paradise, Friday we snorkeled outside of our condo, Saturday headed to rainbow beach http://www.stcroixtourism.com/beaches/rainbow_beach.htm and did dinner at our condo and Sunday we headed to Buck Island http://www.gotostcroix.com/buck-island and then Monday he left. We had blast with all the snorkeling, and have seen some sting rays, sharks, baracudas, lobsters, along with tons of tropical fish and reefs. This island is absolutely beautiful!

Elizabeth ,Hayley, Elton, Reggie

      Yesterday Hayley, Reggie, and I decided to go and see the beer drinking pigs of St. Croix http://www.stcroixtourism.com/montpellier-domino-club-st-croix.htm. Apparently this is a major attraction for St. Croix. You pay a dollar per person to see these huge pigs and then $2/beer for them to drink (o'doule's non-alcoholic beer). You shake up the can and then toss it to whichever pigs jumps up first (watch some videos online). It will then poke a hole in the can and drink the beer, then spit the can out. Interesting to see one time, but I probably won't do it again. Anyway, after that we headed to eat dinner then back to the beach until sunset.  No more fun stuff until after the weekend. We all work this weekend Fri-Sun night. We've had an amazing first week at our new assignment, so until next time!

~Hayley and Elizabeth~