Last Night - Part VIII Honeymoon

On our 9th day, we did a lot of activities, hung out in the pool and beach for the entire day until it was time for our dinner reservation, then we called it a early night due to leaving in the morning.

 Coconut bowling

Water olympics

 Wendy, another new friend

 Doing the "gallup" dance with Collis and Julius

 Junior and two beautiful ladies

 He is known to make crazy faces so we had to get a photo while we were making our rounds saying bye

We did not get a picture with about 3 other people that we became friends with, but at least we got half of them.

 Come sail away

Comes sail, come sail away with me…. 

By the way.. we got to our 200 points.. we actually had 210!  For our prize, we got a hat that we had all of our staff friends sign and then a mini keychain that had St. Lucia on it with sand inside.

Well, I mentioned in a few posts that during our honeymoon we were able to cross a few things off our baby list so here it goes:  Completed number 11, 30, 63

Hiking The Pitons - Part VII Honeymoon

Well, our vacation at Sandals is nearing the end. Day 8 of our vacation we decided to climb the Pitons. It was a close call to riding ATVs through the jungle or deep sea fishing, but we figured we could deep sea fish anywhere, as well as ride ATVs, but we could never climb the Pitons anywhere else because they only exist in St. Lucia.

This excursion was the earliest one yet leaving at 6am. That means we had to be up by 5am to eat breakfast, change, and meet up at the front desk.  It took 2 hours to get there since it was on the opposite side of the island. Once we were there, we began to climb. It was steep climb uphill. It is the 2nd largest mountain in their country. It took a little over 4 hours to climb the entire thing.

 All their bananas!

 View of what we would be climbing.

 I love their colorful buildings

Matt caught a giant lizard

Very top of the Piton

Our awesome guide

This stopping point was 1/4 to the top.

Wandering Jew

Behind us is the other Piton. It looks fairly close but it's close to 3 miles away.

The carving tree. This was 1/2 way to the top.

3/4 to the top!

Top of the mountain

The largest mountain is behind us covered by some clouds. You can see a little bit of it.

To cool off, we went swimming and then had a lunch.

Once we got back, we went straight to the showers, ate dinner in the room and fell asleep from 8pm until 9am that next day. It really wore us out, but it was worth it

Kon nichi wa - Part VI Honeymoon Cont.

After our fun-filled day on the excursion, we went back to relax at the pools and then got ready for our reservation that we had at a Japanese restaurant on one of the other Sandals Resorts.

 On the way there

 Yuck - soup and salad… but that definitely was not the salad I was used to.  Side note - this was my first time ever eating any type of Japanese food and going to a japanese restaurant - but I did try everything once, same for Matt.

 Our sushi and something else we got with our saki

8th Dinner

 The actual entree was delicious!

 Desserts…. were terrible

Matt laughing after we mentioned we're going to get a burger at our hotel with ice cream for dessert Lol

All in all, I am glad we were able to experience it. Later that night, we cancelled out reservation for the french place and changed it to the italian restaurant. Last thing we wanted to eat were frog legs, lamb, and hen. No thank you.