One of the best parts about an island vacation is the conscious decision to relax – sometimes it is on a beach, other times it is with a cocktail. If you are staying in a beautiful location, a villa, a hotel or even a campground on St. John there are ample opportunities to be active, but also times when just “chilling” is the best way to truly enjoy the surroundings and your vacation.
We started this day with a wonderful breakfast of steak and eggs. We have had some very good meals while on island – usually using our own kitchen in Eminence on High, the villa we rented from https://seatopeakvillas.com/EminenceOnHigh/. After breakfast we talked about the plan of the day and several options came up – but something about the cool pool, sunlit patio and some chilled island cocktails was calling, ” Vagablond….stay home!” and so that is exactly what hubby and I did.
We lounged by the pool, we called hubby’s mom and dad in Florida to congratulate them on 68 years of marriage and said a little prayer that we would be given that same time to be together. We celebrated our life, our family and the happiness we feel when we are able to just “be” together.
Later that afternoon we took a short drive through the roads near the villa. We found the trailhead for the Bordeaux Mountain Trail and decided that trail which starts 1150ft above sea level – and leads down to Little Lamshur may be a trek for another day.
That evening it was dinner with family at the villa – we had slow roasted a pork loin with pineapple mango salsa. It was at this meal we hooked little brother on sweet potatoes cut up and roasted on the barbeque grill. He found out that a food he thought he hated is actually pretty good. Only a couple days left and we are already sad to be leaving.
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