Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Hatton Girls Gone Wild

On the Fourth of July the women of the Hatton clan decided to have an adventure and go and visit Annie in the Virgin Islands... we started off from Mary Kay's house bright and early at 7:30 on Thursday morning....
Traveling to O'Hare Airport in style....
and with plenty of leg room! Waiting to board the plane to Miami
Are we there yet?



After many delays, we finally arrived in St. Thomas around 10:30 p.m.



Mary Kay and Mom stayed at the Bolongo Resort

Our hostess.... Annie






House guests posing for one of the many pictures I felt were necessary to take
















View from the Balcony of Annie's apartment


































Meghan's Bay St. Thomas















Group Pictures are my thing!
































Mary Kay loved the water!












A picture taken form the car (a trick I learned in Ireland!)






The roads were like a roller coaster!


















Delightful dinner at Mim's






















A good time was had by all!
























































Especially Debbie!







Annie and Mom had a Lobster Curry dish, which was wonderful....




















Rum punch and conversation after dinner, back at Annie's


Getting ready to go to St. John for another island adventure




























On the ferry



Debbie taking pictures up top

Posing for group pictures on dock at St. John

Ladies enjoying the welcome rum shots... Grandma liked the coconut... Deb the Pineappple...

Bottoms up!


A picture of the ocean from the open air taxi on St. John

Laura was the water queen at Cinammon Bay






















Grandma wisely stayed in the shade...



Grandma got a little sick of my picture taking!
(She is sticking her tongue out at me!)





















Dinner at Iggy's















View from Iggy's













Shopping Mall!





















Make your own postcards!

































Mr. Iguana (I wish they were all behind fences!)

Feeding Frenzy
Sailing and Snorkeling Adventure

I just don't make it as a babe anymore!


Living proof that Deb, Mary Kay, Annie and I all jumped
off the ship into Turtle Bay and to one degree or another snorkeled!








Can't tell who is who....







Deb getting salt water washed off as she came back on board


























My Turn!



























They served Rum Punch on the boat after we had snorkled















Captain John blew into a conk shell to call back the snorklers who hadn't returned ...
Deb discovered that Chris the first mate was from Lake Orien






A turtle surfacing






















Dinner at Annie's
Where there was chicken, laughter and you guessed it, Rum Punch!










































Unfortunately all good things have to come to an end, and we all had to return to reality!









Annie in her scrubs...had to go off to work the next morning at 6!
















And we had to brave the "friendly skys"

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