Relay for Life - coming soon!

On the final countdown to the big Relay for Life event. Meetings, updating Facebook, updating the American Cancer Society page, building the Looney Bien team, whew! Lots of work. But it's worth it, it's a great event, and it's going to be bigger this year than ever before. So, if you're on island June 23-24, come to Charlotte Amalie High School and check things out. And, if you can, please donate :-)

Here's a couple videos for PSAs for the event. Enjoy!

http://youtu.be/wFPCNeHeSPY

http://youtu.be/sDaM6H4uTSE

Friday Beach Pic

It's the weekend! Had a nice short week this week but still ready to get some rest and relaxation going on this weekend.

We had a great time with the family and I think they had a great time as well. Staying on Water Island is a little different than staying on St. Thomas or St. John, so it takes a little getting used to. Not a lot going on in the evenings so you have to either be prepared to cook your own meals or use the ferry or private boat to go over to St. Thomas. If using the ferry, you have to pay close attention to the schedule because there's not a lot of evening runs, so that makes going to dinner a little more challenging. But the fact that Jay's cousin wanted to do a lot of diving/boating during the day and they're not big on going out to dinner, we thought Water Island would fit their needs.

Our days were filled with boating, snorkeling, diving, sailing, tour of St. Thomas, beaching, you get the idea.

The house they stayed in was pretty and very convienient location with beautiful view of Honeymoon Beach and southside of St. Thomas. New construction, infinity edge pool, decorated and furnished very nicely. But I don't think I would recommend it to anyone again unless they know ahead of time all the "quirks". Like an outdoor kitchen, no grill, dark interior (darkwall color and lack of light), smelly septic system, huge mosquito issue with no screened in area to get away from them, to name a few.  But as far as location, it was perfect. Easy walk to the ferry dock and easy walk to the beach. The house came with the use of a vehicle, 4 door suv standard transmission. It would have been better if they could have used the golf cart, then maybe the kids could have gotten out and explored more. But the owners didn't want them to use it. Not a lot of things for teenage kids to do so I really thought drivng around the island in the golf cart exploring would have been fun for them.

Overall I think everyone had a great time and I hope they come back again real soon! :-)

Have a great weekend!

Happy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! Take a moment today to thank our veterans and current service men and women. Freedom is not free.

Friday beach pic on Saturday

Happy Memorial Day weekend. So we are on a long weekend. My cousin Frank and his family are here visiting. Since they rented a Villa on Water Island, and we never tire of Honeymoon Beach, here is a shot from the Joe's Beach bar end of the beach.
We have been doing some boating and diving and plan to do some more. Went sailing yesterday with captain Gary on Sunshine. Had a great time as usual and it was great to spend another day with them before they head down island. We also got to introduce the Snyder gang to sailing. here is Blake at the helm of Sunshine, looks just a little bit like his dad.

Don't forget to give thanks this weekend to our veterans that have protected our rights and freedoms, allowing us to live the way we do.
Jay

Relay for Life Team

Finally got on a team for Relay for Life and got the online donation page set up. I was going to be on the Zumba team but I couldn't get any information from the team captain so I talked Val at the Looney Bien to start a team. We called our team the Looney Walkers lol. I'm still getting all the people that said they would walk on team to get signed up online. The event is a little over 4 weeks away so hopefully I'll get everyone moving here pretty quickly. :-)  In the meantime, if you would like to make a donation to Relay for Life and support our team click the link below. It really is a worthy cause and I'm glad to be back involved again.

American Cancer Society, Relay for Life

Beach Pic

Beach Pic, originally uploaded by captainjay.

A little late for the Friday beach pic, but better late than never. We took the boat over to water island to do a little cleaning and maintenance. Jay has done a bunch of work on the boat so now it's time to do a little cleaning before Jay's cousin gets here tomorrow. They're staying at a house on water island so it should be a fun week. They plan to do a lot of diving so the boat needs to be ready.

After the work is done Joes Beach Bar is having one more Sunday beach BBQ potluck. Entertainment, food and fun. Sounds good to me :-)

Relay for Life on Facebook

Finally got access to the Facebook page for the Relay for Life event. I'm the online chair so I'm supposed to be updating content, but no one could remember the password so "no access for you" lol. But we finally got it resolved, so tomorrow I'll be uploading some pics and information about the event. If you're on Facebook check out the page and click Like. I'm trying to get the number of Fans up, so help us out! :-)

https://www.facebook.com/RelayForLifeStThomasVI