Beautiful Views

We are constantly reminded of God's awesome ability to create beautiful things. With our trip to St. John it really reminded us of that. There were just hours I would bask in the thought of being in such an unspoiled part of His creation. St. John is mostly a National Park and so there is minimal development and a lot of opportunities to hike, snorkel and do some 4 wheel driving. (I didn't like that too much!)

This is a view from the top of the road above our tent. You can see how the tents are really built into the side of the hill.



A view that I took a bunch of pictures of..



We watched this storm pass by us. Jon was convinced that it was going to come to us, but it never did..I thought it was pretty cool that you could see the line of rain...



Rain going by...



More of the storm...

More St. John

Here are a few more of St. John, since I am still at the computer. This was really a great trip, and if you are considering a caribbean island, I would highly recommend. Jon and I both would recommend where we stayed as well.

This is a view from our "tent"



I forget the beach name right now. But it was beautiful...



This was a view from the road above our tent...



This is the same view- without Jon....



Here are the steps down to our tent- 100 + stairs- it's a good workout! Our tent is the third one down at the bottom. The very last tent...

Our Little Monkey

More St. John pictures are coming, but for now a couple of pictures of Caed...

These are some older photos of Caed being a little monkey. He already had busted the screen at our back door and then one day he figured out that he could manage an escape. Needless to say, Khaki, our dog has learned the trick now too. Comes in handy when the glass door is open, but now that the a/c is on, it keeps Caed inside and Khaki out.






Then we had borrowed this little activity table from Lukas (which was a pure winner of a toy!) and he figured out how to climb this as well. All of these were precursors to his good fall two days before his birthday. (not off this table though!)



He thought he was really funny...

St. John

Jon and I had the amazing oppurtunity to visit St. John for a week. We went without Caed- and we missed him so much! But we made the most of our time away from life in DC and enjoyed island life a lot. Here are a few pictures I am posting tonight, and I'll post more later. These were practically the first five photos I took when we arrived.

At the dock when we arrived by ferry



View from the car heading to Concordia




View from our tent looking east (in the evening)



View from our tent looking south east. Beyond that water is Africa! Which made the beach below us unsafe for swimming- but you'll see later that there are lots of interesting things that have washed up on shore here. (including sometimes stowaways!)




Partial view of our tent and other tents looking west.

Visiting Jamestown

After Christina and Jeff's wedding we went on Sunday to visit Jamestown. It being the 400th Anniversary and the Queen visiting this year, everything is set up so nicely. The story of Jamestown is quite interesting and it's still an active archaeological dig site. This is the actual site of the first fort set up by the English settlers. (I am not sure I have that worded correctly, but you get the point.)

Pocahontas statue (turns out she looked nothing like this, especially after she had married one of the English settlers and went over to England)

Jon carried Caed in our little backpack thing...

Part of the active site- we were there on Sunday so there was no digging while we were there..)

This is the church that has been built on this site for a long time. The most original part is this tower section that you see here.

They were able to locate where the exact location of the original walls were of the fort- so it's been rebuilt-

Lewis Wedding Reception

These are photos from the reception. I didn't keep them in any special order- just as they got uploaded...We had a great time and can't wait to spend time with the newly married Lewis'!






Christina's dad and sister dancing away!









Cutting the cake... (Christina and Jeff were getting tired of all the photos at this point..)








Christina and Tracey






A back view of her dress..it was beautiful!



Christina's parents are really good dancers!



Christina and some of the wedding party groovin' to Jon's tunes. (okay so they are Christina's tunes, but he was spinning them...hahaha)






The Peterson Clan having a good time!



The table decorations



Christina's brother's girlfriend (Julia?) and Caed. Caed loved getting this flower from her.



Christina's Brother (who's name is escaping me) and Julia



Jeff's Mom and Christina's Dad dancing