Diaries of Statia -
Oh hello paradise!
July 29th
Finally here!!:) .. so my flight from calgary departed at
12:40 AM this morning. I landed in Toronto at around 6 AM . (Toronto is about
2 hours ahead of cardston so the flight
was actually only like 4 hours.) I had a three hour layover in Toronto and I
was scared to leave the terminal so I just wandered up and down the terminal hallway and
sat and read a book for most of the time.
I landed in St. Maarten at 1:40 PM. For some reason the baggage
claim in the st maarten airport is before you get to meet and greet your people or
whatever so I had to get my three monster suitcases (most of it wasn't my stuff, btw) and try to pull them around
by myself.. I looked and felt pretty retarded. It was super hard. :/ poor poor
me. Well josh met me at the airport and we went to this SUUUPER SWEET resort
hotel, where (surprise surprise) Hannah and the twinners were waiting to
surprise me! :) We have to stay in a hotel because the only flight to Sint
Eustacius is on Monday.
So breakfast, lunch, and dinner at this resort is like
heaven!! You go down to this half inside half outside restaurant type deal.
Every meal is a buffet and it looks like a couple professional cheffs had a cook
off! – there's all these decadent deserts and pastries, and all the food is
presented and decorated so pretty! Its amazing, you go around grabbing
everything!
They have this specialty guy.. so basically whatever the
main course of the meal is he makes it for you right in front of your eyes,
using whatever special goodies you want. Tonight for example, was pasta. So he
had a couple skillets going and the main dish was pasta. First he had you
choose the vegetables you wanted and he started them in the pan, then you
chose from either alfredo sauce or marinara. Next was either Penne noodles or
spaghetti noodles. Lastly you could choose any seasonings or chili peppers to
top it off. He could get two or three
different pans going at once so Hannah, Josh, and I were served within 10
minutes. And let me tell you.. DIVINE!!!!!!! Plus everything else we piled on
our second plates. I felt like i ate a small whale!
At the pool there's a swim up bar! But the only thing we can
get is like a virgin pina coloda. And we have to say virgin.. haha.. (that
means no alcohol if you didn't know, like me..)
Sooooo why would you even have to have a pool when you're
meters away from an amazing ocean?! K I promised myself I would never ever swim
in an ocean, due to shark week and jaws. But… honestly I couldn’t get out!
Unlike statia, the sand at St. Maarten is so white and the water is clear blue!
Beauty!. I even went and snorkeled around I little but stopped after a sting
ray tried to chase me! Well not exactly but whatever.
Well this has been my first day! It was suuper perfect! The
girls warmed up to me again super fast and are cuter then ever<3
- let the diaries of statia begin:)
