May 14th, 2012
Saturday Night(may 12th) My new husband and I jumped on a plane and headed to Miami, FL.

After making our way through customs and saying goodbye to the nice lady from the plane, we headed outside to find Daisy, our cab driver, waiting for us. She drove us from the airport to a dock with a shuttle, and gave us a little history tour of the Island while we drove on the wrong side of an extremely dirty, dusty, pothole filled road. We learned that the major exports of St Kitts used to be rum and sugar cane, but both had eventually been shut down. You can still find it made some places on the island, though. this is also where we saw our first GREEN MONKEYS! They ran across the road.they were so tiny!
When we arrived on Nevis, we were picked up by a cab driver who drove us to the office at Hurricane Cove Bungalows. Jake was stressed because he didn't understand that here, anything with 2 doors and 4wd is called a jeep. He was pretty dissapointed to discover our "jeep" was actually a suzuki. We finished getting checked in and headed up to "Seabuiscut".
We walked in to find a beautiful house set on a cliff overlooking the straight in between the two islands. we have 2 porches, one from the bedroom and one that connects from the livingroom to the front door. down a few steps is the HUGE pool and a bbq. The upper deck has a hammock, which I never wanted to get out of when I sat in it. the whole house is airy and open, and doesn't have any real windows. Just screens. the bed has a tulle canopy to keep bugs out. You can literally lay in bed and look at the caribbean.
it's strange how I've actually gone backwards.. it's 3:12am PST, and 6:12AM our time... yet I'm completely awake. bleh.
We jumped in the pool and took some really goofy underwater pictures, then showered and headed out for our first right handed driving experience. Jake actually did pretty well, but it was unnerving watching the cars drive at you on the wrong side of the road.
We drove to Sunshine's Cafe and had our first "killer bee" rum. It was delicious, but seeing as I don't really like more than 1 sip of alcohol, Jake finished mine off. I had a hamburger and caribbean salad. Jake had a chicken leg, caribbean salad(which I ate), and some rice/bean stuff that was SUPER good. it was definitely a fantastic first meal. We then layed in our chair/bed and watched the sun go down. I also touched a monkey. It wanted to climb on me, but it had poop on it so I didn't let it..
We headed back to "seabiscuit" and even though the sun hadn't even set, immediately fell into bed. Jake was asleep in about 4 minutes. I didn't fall asleep quite as fast, but woke up a few hours later and was postive it was morning... Apparently it was only 9pm. I heard a weird noise and was positive some kind of killer spider was coming to get me, so i made Jake go check. It turned out to be a gecko on the porch. Then we found a daddy long leg on the INSIDE of the netting around the bed, so I made Jake kill it and we tried to get some more sleep. I woke up around 5:30AM(here). The sun was just barely starting to peek over the water. I couldn't help but walk back and forth and back and forth looking from one side of the house to the other. It was so beautiful I couldn't believe it. The island looked so sleepy.
The whole ambiance here is so relaxed. Everyone says hi to everyone else, stores are closed early in the morning and on weekends, and the island is silent until midday. I don't think I ever want to leave, but I don't know how well Diesel would do here...
Well, I'm gonna try to wake Jake up and head out for some food now!
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