st. thomas

st. thomas might have been my favorite island.

have you ever seen more beautiful water and backdrop?

if you say yes then i don't believe you, because this place was amazing.

we thought we had the transportation on the island figured out, and so we took a taxi van to

emerald bay

^ did you think this was mary-kate and ashley? 

the bay was beautiful and the weather was perfect and we spent a few glorious hours there 

frolicking in the water, palm tree climbing, having a wave diving olympics, boys playing football, etc.

however when we were leaving emerald bay to go get lunch, we almost created a national uprising.

i guess there is an order to what taxi van you can take, and our taxi driver was trying to butt in line (gasp!).

it wasn't our fault (naive americans), but there were a lot of st thomasians yelling and cursing in their island talk, 

as well as comments of our taxi driver getting his "skull bashed in".

we got in and out of 3 different taxi vans before the st. thomas taxi men got it figured out, 

and luckily we didn't witness any murders...

after lunch the group split up, and us and the harris' went exploring!

we took the "99 steps" (really 103, according to winston) up to blackbeards castle and got an amazing view.

and then we decided that since we were there, it would be a crime 

(similar to the one we unknowingly committed with the taxis earlier) to not go to the famous

magen's bay

it really was as beautiful as those national geographic people say.

now i will leave you with a very scandalous picture that shows you just how pretty the water was

(just ignore the inappropriate couple right there in the middle)