I can't believe that we have been married 2 years now. Sometimes it seems like it has been a lot longer than that, but on the other hand those 2 years have flown by. We decided a long time ago that we wanted to go to St Lucia for our next big vacation. With Q deploying and a lot going on here, we decided that it was a good time to go and just get away and it totally lived up to those expectations. We went to the Sandals La Toc Resort.
This vacation was great because it was just us and we got to spend some much needed time together outside of work, chores, cell phones, tv, etc that we have at home. We enjoy our life very much, but it can become too much and you don't even realize it until you go somewhere with no cell phone service, no tv, nothing!!! It was so great!!!!
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| Dinner on the beach for our anniversary night |
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| View from our balcony. |
One really great thing about our relationship that we always cherish is our desire to do similar things. Q had never been on a horse, and when I was growing up I was exposed to horses a couple of different times and have always loved riding them. So what better way for Q to ride one for the first time but on vacation.
The food was great in some locations and not so much in others. We loved almost all of our dinners; the view and the atmosphere makes up for any disappointment in the food. The one thing I LOVED when we were there was the fresh fruit that they have. Since they grown most fruits, we were obsessed with their mangos and their bananas!!! You just can't get anything better! I have never eaten so many mangos, bananas, and olives (for some reason I really wanted olives the whole trip).
One of the main things we did was take a day trip on a catamaran. This was another thing Q had never done before. Catamarans are fun because you can lounge the whole time and it is a nice cruise to your location. We took the catamaran to the Pitons which are the famous mountains that St Lucia is known for.
We rode the catamaran to the town of Soufriere which is where we got a taxi to the hotel that grows their own cocoa trees to make chocolate.
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| At Hotel Chocolat |
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| Hotel Chocolat. Very eco friendly and makes all food with chocolate |
In order to make the chocolate, there was a ton of grinding on the cocoa nibs. This took a long time and it was SOO hot because there wasn't much of an ocean breeze.
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| The cocoa pod that contains all ingredients to make the chocolate. |
Then you spread the chocolate mixture into the molds to make the bars.
You just couldn't beat the view of the Pitons. They were just amazing jetting out of the water. No wonder celebrities come here to get away. It is the perfect place to get away from it all.
Next up was the mud bath. The pre-mud bath was a 100 degree tub that you soak in so that your pores open up for the mud minerals to penetrate and really get into your skin.
This part was quite fun. Q was very thorough on his mud application skills and he took way longer than any other male there. That's what I get for marrying a very technique based guy :)
Then it was off to snorkeling. This was very cool because it was at Sugar Beach Bay, which is the same bay that Oprah stays at and where Matt Damon re-did his vows with his wife not too long ago.
The sunset cruise back to our resort was amazing. Such an amazing sunset and experience.
