The Honeymoon

July 4th, 2008 - July 11th, 2008

Chad and I spent 8 glorious days at Peter Island Resort in the British Virgin Islands. Peter Island is the 5th largest island in the B.V.I. yet the resort is the ONLY thing on the island. For us to get to Peter Island, we flew from KC to Dallas, Dallas to San Juan, San Juan to Tortola, taxied to a ferry, and took the ferry 25 minutes to Peter Island. It was ALL worth it.

The best way to describe Peter Island is PARADISE. You could do anything you wanted or do as little as you want. You never had to lift a finger if you didn't want to. All our food was included and delicious. We had everything from lobster tail, grouper, calamari, snapper and scallops to burgers, steak and sandwiches. We spent most of our time relaxing on one of the three beaches on the island, still finding time in between to snorkel, hike, watch the sunset and ride the Hobbe Cat.Since alcohol was not included in our package, we took the ferry over to Tortola (meaning 'Turtle Dove') one of the days to go to a local grocery store and buy beer. The taxi took us in to Roadtown (capital of Tortola) and we found a Rite Way and bought some Presidente and Heineken. We thought it would be a quick walk back to the ferry but it turned out to be a little longer, especia lly in the HOT Caribbean sun hauling a cooler full of beer. It took us the better part of 30 minutes only to realize we had another hour to wait for the ferry!

After we had been on Peter Island for a couple days, we decided to utilize our couples 90 minute massages. So that morning we had breakfast catered to our room before calling a driver to take us to the spa. We had some time before our treatment so we sweated everything out in the sauna. This was Chad's first massage and he

loved it. We were both so relaxed. Afterwards, you are invited to enjoy the Spa's private amenities (pool, beach, sauna, etc...) We took a stroll along the beach before hoping in the pool. We stayed for about an hour then headed back down to reality for lunch.


On our last day at Peter Island (Thursday) we had a day trip on a Catamaran to Cooper Island and Virgin Gorda to snorkel. We snorkeled at Cooper Island for about 45 minutes learning about all the other islands on the way there. We had lunch on the Catamaran as we sailed over to Virgin Gorda (named this because Christopher Columbus believed the island looked like a pregnant woman on her back, and it was part of the Virgin Islands). We snorkeled around and through the Baths at Virgin Gorda in the afternoon. The Baths is where merchants would take the slaves to wash them before taking them over to Spanishtown for sale. In the evening, after returning to Peter Island, we had a wine paring dinner with 7 other couples. The wine they chose went lovely with the dinner the chef had prepared.

Overall, Peter Island was an amazing experience and anyone would be only too lucky to visit there. We'd go back in a heartbeat. But most of all, we spent a week together with no interruptions from the outside world, relaxing and just being in love...
(Below is a link to the rest of the honeymoon photos on Chad's Facebook)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1603&l=76d9d&id=1372537094