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Crissy, your pictures of Antigua look so beautiful. You certainly got to see a lot. Loved this update. I too remember the roads there being very windy. More please Crissy. Glad you had a great weekend in Florida and getting to go Blizzard Beach.
Double digits! That looks like a great excursion, Crissy. So glad Eric was feeling better and could join you. Antigua looks lovely. Can't wait for more!
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What a great pic for an excursion! You guys really got to explore the island! So beautiful!!! We almost went to Antigua for our honeymoon actually! (But I really wanted to swim with dolphins and its wasn't an excursion offered through Sandals!)
Can't wait for more! great pics!
Great pics - as always! So glad to see the next update. I'm working on my first TR and realize how difficult it can be to set aside the time to update on a regular basis. - Holly
It really was and it the coast was just beautiful!
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Great pictures from Antigua!
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What a beautiful place!
thanks guys! It really was much prettier than I thought it would be!
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Crissy, your pictures of Antigua look so beautiful. You certainly got to see a lot. Loved this update. I too remember the roads there being very windy. More please Crissy. Glad you had a great weekend in Florida and getting to go Blizzard Beach.
Thank you! We did get to see a lot and I felt like I inundated you guys with pics on this one but I wanted you to see what we saw
More to come this weekend
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Great update!! Sounds like a wonderful tour of the island.
Yay for Double Digits
We really lucked out on that tour! I wasnt excited about it at first but it turned out to be great!
wooo hooo double digits right???
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Great pics Crissy!! It looks like a beautiful place!
Great to hear you had a nice weekend away in FL - and even a little Disney to boot! Yea!!!
And woo hoo on double digits!!!
It was a really gorgeous island depsite the poverty we saw. There is such beauty in the poorest of areas sometimes. I think the dominican republic is like that from my friends descriptions.
Heck yea on the disney/florida trip. It was such a blast and any disney even if its a glimpse is so worth it in my book!
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Double digits! That looks like a great excursion, Crissy. So glad Eric was feeling better and could join you. Antigua looks lovely. Can't wait for more!
You know me getting excited over double digits LOL...which BTW I'm totally missing reading your TR's, I'm so outtta the loop and it looks like there are a couple I'm missing out on Im totally making it a goal to read those soon!
that execursion was the cheapest one we bought believe it or not! We just loved it!
Antigua was lovely and I was so glad he was able to be a part of it!
more soon...and they are the pretiest pics of all
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What a great pic for an excursion! You guys really got to explore the island! So beautiful!!! We almost went to Antigua for our honeymoon actually! (But I really wanted to swim with dolphins and its wasn't an excursion offered through Sandals!)
Can't wait for more! great pics!
I know!! we thought we really lucked out! It was nice to be able to see so much and feel like you actually got your money's worth on the island tour.
more to come soon...
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Great update, Crissy!! Love the pics from above looking at the bays and coastline... so beautiful!
Glad you had a good time in FL... and a Disney stop to boot! Can't beat that!!
Those were some really great views. I'd love to have to have that view in my backyard
The disney stop was so great...just enough to tide me over until sept
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Great pics - as always! So glad to see the next update. I'm working on my first TR and realize how difficult it can be to set aside the time to update on a regular basis. - Holly
aww thank you! I know it took me forever to get this one up mostly because I had so many pictures to show this time. It is so difficult for me to set time aside but I really enjoy sharing it with you guys! Hey wait you have a TR and I"m missing out see how behind I get LOL
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Love the update!!! Thanks for sharing!!! Been super excited to read more, and it was worth the wait!
hmmmm where have you been miss thang??? LOL I'm glad you liked the update....I really hope to get this done by first week or so of July. that way I can start thinking about a disney PTR LOL
I hope you get some tips on reading these
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Great pictures of Antigua! It looks like a really pretty island with all the inlets and sailboats in the water!
the sailboats were so great to see and look at....it was a really nice treat!
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Great update & pictures!!!!
DOUBLE DIGITS!!!!
Heck yea!! love double digits!
I'm glad you liked the update...more soon!
What do you mean no home room service?? Can't you put your order in with Eric and have him deliver it to you in bed on a nice tray with fresh flowers in a little vase and the white gloves and all???
Love the pictures!!! This is one of my favorites. Just looks soo cool with all the sailboats and the water is amazing!!
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We didn't do a combo tour like you did. We went right to the beach and just hung out and had a BBQ there. But, I like your tour better! Great pictures of the island!! And you had much better weather than we did. It was overcast most of the day when we were there and even with your teeny bit of rain, you got such beautiful weather and pictures.
Can't wait for the beach part of the trip. I do LOVE me a beach!! (and a good book )
I'm back with the beach portion of this update! and the rest of that day......
Antigua....the rest of the day
We left the Dockyard and headed over to Turner's Beach. It was about a 30 minute drive. ( I cant remember exactly) This was a very beautiful and interesting drive to the beach. We saw some really pretty sites.
Eric took this pic of a road sign
We saw a lot of these old sugar mills
there were all these ducks in this creek of sorts because we were in a mountainous area...
This was the zipline tour and it was really cool we got to see this guy zip down the line in front of us...
Here is a pic of those fresh fruit stands with the Black pinapples
Here were some beach fronts along the way...you can see this was a beautiful coastline
We arrived after a short drive at Turner's Beach. We unloaded the bus and the tour guide said we had an hour and a half to lounge and enjoy the beach. We got a free beer on our way in complimentary of the tourguide.
This beer is a local beer. It was super good and tasty! It was a mix between a red stripe and a heiniken.... We have already looked and cannot find this in the states
We decided to drink the beer since it was hot and we were thirsty. We really liked this beach because it had this wonderfully shaded food area with drinks and a bar and they served food.
This picture is looking out from where we were drinking
This reminds me of a corona commercial right????
We saw these really cool shells and decided to put our towels here and go take some pictures of the beach
To me this water was breathtaking
Dont let the pictures fool you! the current was a bit strong. I stayed knee deep and that was good enough for me
It was a beautiful day and the water was baby blue for miles
We decided to mess with the color and do blue only
After a few pictures and walked down the beach about half a mile I decided to lay in the sun with Eric's mother...
Here is a sailboat in the distance
Random picture of random people lol
It was time to say our goodbyes to Turner's Beach as our tourguide gave us a 10 minute warning. We started to load up and I will say that there were a few peddlers on this beach. One of them decided to corner me and Eric's mother. I tried to be polite but they were pushy. Eric and I finally walked away I hate to be like that but oh well!
We get back to the bus and they tell us the air conditioning on the bus is broken
That was crazy!!! They did have windows to open and it was a nice breeze once the bus got going but it was the point we needed the air the most. It was the hotest part of the day with no air!!!
here is a pic of the beach as we were leaving
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