Does anyone else find the title of this post to be a little empty?I know you may be saying - "Dude, you just got back from a week spent on the beach! You must feel so rested and ready to jump back into it".
Uh... no.
I know, I know. Bitching about post vacation crap may get me pelted by rotten fruit, but I can't help but think this is normal.
We had a great week in the Virgin Islands. By the way, St. Thomas is about as virgin as Madonna at an MTV awards after party. Someone needs to check the hymen on a few parts of the island cause I think maybe it's been screwing around in a backseat of a Chevy for the last 50 years or so. It's a pretty island, but some parts aren't what you would bring home to mom.
If you are planning a trip to the USVI, I recommend staying on St. John and taking the short ferry ride over to St. Thomas for the shopping when a cruise ship is in port. St. John is about 75% national park, it's what you picture in your head when you think of a Caribbean island and that picture my friends is gorgeous.
So, after:
- drinking my weight in just about every rum based drink known to man
- snorkeling everyday
- dressing up meant wearing the good flip-flops
- relaxing on near empty beaches looking out on sapphire colored water.
I find myself back to reality.
Apparently post vacation blues is rather common, I looked it up. Wikipedia offers a treatment of sharing photos with friends, so I'll offer the attached picture as "treatment" and maybe fix myself a drink with some of the duty-free/tax-free liquor we brought back.
A break means you can't wiggle it
A few months ago I wrote about how I worry more about what we learned as kids and what kids today are missing as a result of all this overprotection crap nowadays. In that post I talked about the kids playing on a swing set. Well, that post came true Friday while we were gone. Our 5yr old broke his arm in 2 places falling from... well, falling from a swing set down the street. Irony is a bitch ain't it.
Much like I wrote then, I hate to see the kid with a cast going up his arm but I hope with it came a new lesson about the effects of gravity.
