places, on film

{big bear cafe, washington, DC}

{cinnamon bay, st. john}

island time

{driving into town}

{another sunset over cinnamon bay}

{not a bad end to our all day hike}

{surfboards at cinnamon bay}

{so excited for red stripes and conch fritters!}

{fresh coconuts, booze, pickup truck}

{the coconut i got paid 50cents to eat}

{mmmm, free coconut}

{eerie sunset swimming}

we all made it back to the District in one piece after our 5-day jaunt to St. John! ahhhhh, days of beach lounging, sun bathing, babe watching, hiking, snorkeling, kayaking, notreallyshowering, and camping on white sand beaches - island adventures may need to become an annual thing. (see future post for tales of coral fighting, sea urchin wrestling, 3rd degree sun burns, and spiders the size of my head)

a perfect sunset

{sunset, cinnamon bay}

we're back from our trip and with so much to share!

here's a little taste for now

think warm thoughts...

...and get fucking jealous of me! (and jamie and ben and david and krishnan, too!!)

because in just a few short weeks (let's start the countdown now - 31 days, suckers!) we'll all be escaping this miserable DC weather to shake off our winter blues on the blissfully hot, sunny beaches of St. John. Cinnamon Bay, to be exact. doesn't that just SOUND sexy and beautiful?

so it went a little something like THIS: one cold and blustery evening (think 6 degrees coupled with 5 ft. snow drifts mounted against our house), five friends were cuddled up on the couches of our M Street abode, dreaming aloud of a warm trip outside of the District.

David: why don't we go camping on St. John?
Jamie: tickets look prettttttty cheap
Krishnan: yeah, let's do it! I could use a nice tan!

(elapsed time: 12 hours)

we all bought ourselves tickets to the Virgin Islands on March 25th . easy as pie. spontaneous as can be.

i can see it now..... me and jamie looking like this, and this. while the boys cook us dinner and pick us fresh pineapples (wearing coats made of questionable materials). paradise - HERE WE COME!