Tropical Diversion: The James Gang Visit

My sister Elizabeth and her family were down here for 5 days. There are five of them and two of us plus the dogs. We though having the dogs on board would be a little too much so we decided to board them for 6 days. We can sleep 6 on this boat very easily but we had to put one kid outside because there were 7 of us. Turned out they didn’t mind at all and they traded off sleeping outside during their visit

Since it was the week before Christmas I figured the BVI’s would be too crowded, so we took them to Culebra, which is a Spanish Virgin Island. Culebra is great because it has the best snorkeling around here. They have reefs that are not visited everyday and we had a great time snorkeling.

We also took them to a bay just off Culebra and they loved it. We hiked to the oldest light house in the Caribbean. We went to the town on Culebra and also to a bay on the north end of St Thomas, Megans bay, which was pretty awesome.

All in all it was a good week. Elizabeth and her family are all used to the water and they love to swim and play in it. The kids in her family are 15, 15 and 19 so they do not need much supervision either in or out of the water.

We will be spending Christmas, just the 4 of us (Lexie and Max) on the boat so it will be pretty different this year. We will be having dinner with 4 other couples on one of their boats with turkey and all the fix ins’.

Hope you all have a Very Merry Christmas

Here are some pictures.

Elizabeth on the paddle board