Vacation to St. Thomas!

To celebrate our 10th Wedding Anniversary, Josh and I went on a tropical, romantic vacation to the Virgin Islands! It was such an amazing trip! We had really been looking forward to going away together, especially after spending the past year and a half+ in the craziness of house building! Throughout the construction process we paid for all of the big contracts with our miles Visa (then we'd pay it off using the construction loan), in hopes that at the end we would have enough miles saved up for free airline tickets. It worked out for us, and Josh did all the research to see which locations we could go to and how many miles points each would use. We decided on St. Thomas because we figured it was a place we might not ever get to go to again. It was far enough away while still being in the U.S. (:

We hadn't been on a big vacation (just the two of us) since our honeymoon, so we were really excited to get away and have time to reconnect as a couple. We were gone for ten days, which was by far the longest we had ever been away from our kids! The boys stayed for four nights with my parents and five nights with Josh's parents...they did well & had a lot of fun. We missed them a lot, but we also really enjoyed the time we got to spend away from them. I'm so thankful that it worked out to go because I know that it was good for us!

Here are just some of the highlights from our trip. I tried not to go crazy with pictures on this post, but if you would like to see all 200 pictures you can check out the album on the right. (:

View from our hotel room
Another view from our room

View from the water of our resort, the Wyndham at Sugar Bay.

Our beach
We bought an underwater case for our Canon SD750 and had so much fun trying it out while snorkeling! Josh took most of the pictures because he was much more comfortable diving deep into the water. (:

We went on a tour of Blackbeard's Castle

We took lots of pictures of the pirate statues for our boys--they love pirates. (:

Taken at the top of the tower

Laying by the pool at our resort

Eating lunch at Coki Beach

Snorkeling at Coki Beach-known for having some of the best snorkeling in the Virgin Islands. The fish were basically at our feet as we walked into the water. It was amazing!

Amazing Coral!

Dinner at one of the restaurants at the resort

We took a ferry to the island of St. John for a day and went to Trunk Bay- said to be the 3rd most beautiful beach in the world. The sand was so soft and powdery and the water was SO clear and warm...just amazing!