Break!!!

I had a wonderful 2 week vacation!  Enjoyed spending some much needed quality time with my beer on the beaches of St. Kitts with some awesome friends.  We spend one of the days of break taking a catamaran over to the sister island of Nevis.  Went snorkeling and enjoyed some of their special drink called the "Killer Bee."  It doesn't have the horrible sharpness you sometimes taste with straight alcohol... but you can definitely tell that it is made with JUST ALCOHOL.  One drink and you're good.  Two drinks and you're gone.  Spent the rest of my first week basically just enjoying doing absolutely nothing.

My mom came into town during the second week to take a much needed vacation and also to see this amazing island nation that I've decided to spend the next 2 years of my life on.  Spent a lot of time at the casino as well as going out to the bars to hang out with the ever increasing group of returners to the island from break.  We also took an amazing island tour taking us to Caribelle Batik and botanical gardens as well as Brimstone Fortress, two of the very big "touristy" places to go on the island.

Every flower was in bloom and looked extremely vibrant.

One of the many beautiful views you can see at the botanical gardens.

Heading up the hill to one of the many bastions on the fortress property.

Prince of Wales bastion at the fortress.

  We also took a day trip out to Reggae beach to see the famous island boar Wilbur, luckily just days before he unfortunately passed away from old age.

RIP Wilbur.  You brought a lot of happiness to a lot of people.

Reggae beach bar adopted some local abandoned monkeys and spoils them rotten.  Wish I was a monkey staying at the Reggae monkey resort ;-)

Reggae beach on the Caribbean side of the island.

Saw the little bird perched on the beer bottle for the longest time.  Good thing he waited for me to take a picture before flying away.

I'm writing this in the middle of a study break.  That's right, I started back Monday to classes for 2nd semester so I will hopefully be finished writing/editing my post for that soon.  Until then...