Live De Life Living in the USVI's

Love Sundays on Honeymoon

2012-01-30T14:45:00.001-04:00

Love Sundays on Honeymoon, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Enjoyed a nice Sunday afternoon with some friends over at Honeymoon on Water Island. We had a little rain but once it cleared it was a perfect afternoon. I love spending Sunday's over there. Had a great burger at Heidi's Honeymoon Grill and then some frozen refreshments over at Joes Beach Bar. Jay scrubbed on the boat a little, trying to get it ready for the next group of visitors. Today he's changing the oil, pumping out the holding tank, and all that other fun boat stuff you have to do to keep it running. The first group arrives on St. John this week so let the games begin! :-)

Sunday Funday at Water Island

2012-01-29T15:43:00.001-04:00

Sunday Funday at Water Island, originally uploaded by captainjay.

So we had the day off today, so it's Honeymoon Beach, been raining but much nicer now.
Jay

Friday Beach Pic

2012-01-27T10:00:00.001-04:00

Friday Beach Pic, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Coming to you live from Hawksnest Beach, St. John. I get to work at the UVI St. John Academic Center today so I came over early to see a little of the island before heading to work. So I decided to just hang out at hawksnest for a bit and do a little reading. There was a yoga class going on when I first pulled up. Wish I had known that, I may have came earlier so I could join in.

Well this week was pretty quiet. No guests, so we're trying to get back into the routine. I started back on Jenny Craig, Zumba, willPower & Grace, the whole shebang. The last couple months of holidays and guests haven't been kind to my weight goal so I'm trying to jump start back into some kind of routine. It's only for a couple weeks though because we have more friends arriving next weekend. One group on St. John, one on Water Island and one with us. After that there are no more guests scheduled so I'm really going to kick it in high gear.

Jay has been super busy at work but we may get to run over to Joes Beach bar Sunday afternoon.

Hope everyone has a great weekend :-)

Friday Beach Pic

2012-01-20T10:26:00.001-04:00

Friday Beach Pic, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Happy Friday everyone! Took today off to spend the last day with my cousin and his wife. Going to hit a last few places and then off to the airport. It's been a fantastic week. Boating, eating, shopping, sight seeing, St. John, several beaches, and of course lots of rum. They're already planning their next trip back! That's what happens when you come here. You want to come back again and again until you just stay :-)

We have two free weeks, then round three arrives. Rednecks in the Caribbean soon come :-)

Have a great weekend!

Martin Luther King Day

2012-01-16T10:00:00.002-04:00

Here is a little video of Will Kimbrough doing the "Ballad of Martin Luther King" Figured this was appropriate for the holiday. We saw Will at Court Street Bar and Grill in Pomeroy the year before last. If you don't know his music Google him.
Jay

Friday Beach Pic

2012-01-13T08:41:00.001-04:00

Friday Beach Pic, originally uploaded by captainjay.

It's Friday! And round two visitors arrive today! Yea! We're still exhausted from round one lol but ready for round two. This group doesn't have passports so no Jost or Willie T trips for them. But no worries. Plenty of beautiful places to go around St. Thomas, St. John, Water Island, Hans Lollick, you get the picture. I'm sure we'll be hanging out a bunch at Joes Beach Bar on Water Island (pic above) which is cool because we haven't been there in awhile. Watch out Water Island, here we come!

Hope everyone has a great weekend, I know we will :-)

Fun Times

2012-01-10T08:41:00.000-04:00

We have had a great time with my cuz Angie and friend Theresa. We've packed as much as possible into four days, from partying in Frenchtown and Redhook, boat trip to Jost Van Dyke and Willie T, tour guide to the overlooks and Mountaintop and downtown shopping, and capped it off with a boat ride to Water Island, Joes's Beach Bar on Honeymoon bay and a trip around the harbor to see a great sunset. They leave today so I'm taking them to lunch hopefully at Fat Turtle so they can walk around Yacht Haven Grand and Havensight. But it's a 5 cruise ship day so depending on how crazy it is, we may just go to Island Beachcomber instead and avoid the traffic. :-)

The next group arrives Friday so that leaves us three nights to clean the condo, go grocery shopping and have dinner with our landlord who is also on island this week. Whew. But I love it! Bring it on :-)

Tourist day

2012-01-07T15:55:00.001-04:00

Tourist day, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Today I got to play tourist with my company visiting. What a fun day. Mountain Top, downtown shopping, overlooks, you name it. Back to the condo for food fest and island drinks. Can't beat it :-)

Friday Pic

2012-01-06T08:47:00.001-04:00

Friday Pic, originally uploaded by captainjay.

TGIF! and happy Three Kings Day! Round 1 of the visitors arrived yesterday, round 2 arrives next week and round 3 next month. Gonna be some fun times. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Bubbly Pool

2012-01-03T09:57:00.001-04:00

If you haven't been to the bubbly pool on the north east side of Jost Van Dyke, then you definitely need to check it out. It's a short walk from Foxy's Taboo at Diamond Cay. The trail is marked and easy to walk in flip flops. Bring a small cooler and hang out for the afternoon. It was a great way to spend New Year's Day.

Happy New Year's

2012-01-01T19:46:00.001-04:00

Happy New Year's, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Deb and I have been on Jost all weekend. Deb sailed over Friday during the day with some friends. I worked until five on Friday then left for Jost after work. We had a great time. Have some great pictures and video. I will get som more stuff up this week.

Happy New Years
Jay and Deb

Happy New Years Eve

2011-12-31T13:14:00.001-04:00

Happy New Years Eve, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Just pulled into White Bay and it is hoppin' !! And things are just getting started. Great weather, great friends and a great party. Hope everyone has a great New Year celebration! :-)

Friday Beach Pic

2011-12-30T08:24:00.001-04:00

Friday Beach Pic, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Well today's beach pic is a long distance pic of Jost Van Dyke, as seen from our house, since that's where Jay and I will be for New Years Eve! WooHoo! Finally going to Foxy's Old Year's Night party. I've wanted to go to this since moving here and Jay's schedule has never allowed us to go. But this year it all worked out. And I can't wait. We'll be taking lots of pics so we'll put a post together after we get back of the pics suitable to post lol.

Hope everyone has a wonderful new year's eve and a great 2012.

WAPA, WAPA Everywhere But Not A Drop to Drink.

2011-12-27T20:16:00.001-04:00

Let alone enough water to flush your commodes. Tomorrow is another five ship day for downtown all the local businesses including restaurants will have to live without water. WAPA is still having "difficulties" with the water system. Enough is enough I have personally had to haul salt water to flush the heads at the marina. I won't go into details about how much fun that was, but suffice to say I nearly lost my breakfast. Any way here is a report from News 2 explaining how things have been going, and how Hodge is to busy working on the problem to do an interview. Well Christmas Eve I saw him in his W&P 1 tagged white Ford Escape downtown shopping. Guess he wasn't to busy to get a little last minute shopping done. It's one of if not the busiest tourist weeks of the year. This is the best we can do.

Merry Christmas

2011-12-25T09:41:00.001-04:00

Merry Christmas, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Merry Christmas from de islands!

Merry Christmas from De Islands

2011-12-24T10:57:00.001-04:00

Merry Christmas from De Islands, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Off today after a very busy week. Doing a little laundry and cleaning up the kitchen. Its not all beach bars down here after all. Deb is in the air as I type this, flying back from the "The Real World" she gets in around 4:00. We have plans for dinner out this evening, then a Christmas dinner tomorrow with friends.
Hope everyone is having a great Holiday season.
Merry Christmas
Jay

More WAPA rantings, Have a Merry Powerless Christmas

2011-12-23T06:38:00.000-04:00

So yesterday in an effort to restore water service to St Thomas, the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority managed shut down the whole power grid for St Thomas, St John, Water Island and Hassel Island. Just two short days before Christmas and right at the start of Tourist Season. If those of us that live here didn't have to deal with it all the time it might be funny. It simply isn't funny any more. We pay over forty cents a kilowatt for unreliable power. Constant black outs, brown outs and rolling outages on a regular basis. This place is an electronics wasteland from surges and spikes blowing up TVs, computers and appliances. Despite all this the bright side is that Hugo Hodge is earning $210,000 dollars a year to run this dog and pony show. This is actually sixty thousand dollars a year more than the governor makes here. So I am sure he is spending that money locally and helping out the economy.

Here are the details of this latest "St Thomas, You Can't Make This Shit Up" circus act.

St Thomas Source "St Thomas in the Dark"

Happy First Day of Winter

2011-12-22T05:47:00.000-04:00

Since it is the first day of winter I thought we would talk a little bit about the weather. Here is a summary of the Weather here this week from the weather station at the condo. The real story is the wind. Christmas winds are definitely here. We have had winds in the upper teens to mid twenty mile an hour range for about a week now. Blowing from the north, this definitely has cooled things down a bit, also the seas swells are here to go with them. I know those of you dealing with snow and real cold don't have much sympathy so I won't complain. Actually the cooler temps are kinda nice.
Merry Christmas,
Jay

Merry Christmas

2011-12-20T08:33:00.001-04:00

Merry Christmas, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and share my new Christmas tree. Its the biggest one I've had since moving here. We made the decision when we moved not to bring any of my Christmas decorations to keep the cost of moving down. Plus we didn't know where we would be living and if there would be storage for everything. I thought I could go without the big tree and all my decorations, but I was wrong. I love decorating for Christmas so I should have known better. So our first Christmas I went to Kmart and bought the cheapest tree I could get and a handful of decorations. It was pretty sad looking but at least I had a tree. The next year we moved to a different place and the previous tenant had left behind a little bit bigger pre-lit tree. So I bought a few more decorations. Slightly better than the first tree, but still not what I was used to. Then last year, after Christmas, a friend came across a tree on sale and bought it for me as a late birthday/Christmas gift. I was so thrilled! I was so excited this year to get the new tree up to see how it looked. Since it was twice the size of my previous tree, I needed to go get some more decorations. So I finally have it done and I think it turned out pretty nice. I'm still missing my ornaments that are back in WV but I have some new island ornaments that are helping to fill the void. I love ornaments that have special meaning. If I had to do it over, I would have definitely packed up at least one box of decorations and brought some of the hand made ornaments that I had collected over the years. Who knows, maybe on our next WV trip, I'll venture into the depths of our over stuffed attic to try and find some ornaments to bring back with me. :-)

Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday! Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! :-)

Merry Christmas Electric Slide Style

2011-12-18T23:22:00.000-04:00

Those of you that know the Brandi's will get a kick out of this little Christmas ditty. John posted this up on Facebook and You Tube today. They definitely have the Christmas Spirit, island style. You can find Captain John here Palm Tree Charters

Merry Christmas

2011-12-16T21:42:00.001-04:00

Merry Christmas, originally uploaded by captainjay.

So the Season is upon us. Hope everyone is having a great holiday. We did the Lighted Boat parade tonight in St Thomas. Deb's Christmas vacation started today, she helped decorate our friends boat. There was a great turnout downtown for the parade.
Jay

Miracle on Main Street

2011-12-16T08:09:00.001-04:00

It's that time of year again! Downtown Charlotte Amalie is turned into a Christmas wonderland. Stores stay open late, decorations and music everywhere, food/drink vendors and the lighted boat parade. Last year we took our little boat, which looked pretty silly against all the bigger boats that were out there. So this year we are taking a friends sail boat. We both gathered up more lights and decorations and plan to pull it all together this afternoon when I get off work. The wind has been howling the last couple of days so I hope it doesn't mess things up. If you're on island today, come down to waterfront tonight and check things out. Merry Christmas! :-)

BTW - the pic above is our friends boat from Admiralty Dive Center from year before last.

Friday Beach Picture

2011-12-16T06:17:00.000-04:00

This one is from Lameshure Bay on St John. Taken when Brenda and Gary were here visiting.
Jay

Happy Birthday Deb

2011-12-14T07:08:00.000-04:00

Yesterday was Deb's birthday, so we did a little French Town Crawl. I won't bother with the details but we had a good time. A few good drinks and a great dinner at the Pie Whole. The picture above was Deb's birthday cheesecake, not pictured was her white chocolate martinin that went with the dessert.
Happy Birhday babe, Love You
Jay

Friday beach pic

2011-12-12T15:24:00.001-04:00

Friday beach pic, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Better late than never lol. I meant to send this on Friday but I guess I got side tracked and never sent it. I got off a little early on Friday so I headed over to Water Island with some friends on our boat. It rained pretty much the whole time except for a few minutes when the sun came out and I snapped this pic. But a rainy day at Joes Beach Bar is better than sitting in front of a computer with no view of outside. :-)

I'm really loving my new work schedule. We were given the option to adjust our work hours to lessen the pain of our 8% pay cut. You still have to work the normal 35 hours and the new schedule has to be approved by your supervisor. I work an extra 45 min a day and leave at noon on Friday. The concept being, with the adjusted schedule you may be able to take on a second job to make up the difference of what we lost with the pay cut. I don't have any plans for that, but I'm loving Friday afternoons off!