T&E trip report - Day 1 1/27/12

luvinsun · Post by **luvinsun** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:16 am

A little about us: We are Tami and Eric from a little town in NorthEast Ohio. We look forward to STJ around this time every year to get out of the elements of the Lake Erie snow belt. Me (Tami) is 46 and Eric is 51. We also have very stressful jobs (me, I'm an IT geek), and Eric is your typical cable man. I will try to post each day our adventures. I hope you enjoy STJ from our point of view. I must warn you though, we are pretty boring people, but I'll try to make this entertaining!

Travel Day:

Was up bright and early at 1:30 am, and we were out the door by 3:40. Flight out of Cleveland was uneventful, and we thought we were going to get lucky in Atlanta, because we didn’t have to change concourses… Well, that was not to be. We were stuck on the plane, and delayed 45 minutes, due to some maintenance issue and paperwork (?) We taxied out about 45 minutes late, and man did our pilot haul some a$$, because we only arrived in STT 15 minutes past our original arrival time!

We arrived in STT at approximately 3:00 pm, and by the time we got our luggage and got a taxi it was 3:30. The taxi driver had to stop downtown to drop off people at the downtown ferry, and by the time we got to Red Hook, the ferry was just pulling out. Booo… Oh well, I was a tad bit irritated, but that soon disspelled as we were in our second HOME! So we sat down at the bar, had a beer and waited till the 5:00 ferry. Uneventful ferry ride. Collected luggage and met up with Tammy from Seaview Homes. Nice gal. She took us over to get our car at Cool Breeze (who incidentally waited for us - Yay Cool Breeze), then on to San Costanzo, which will be our home for the next 7 days.

We unpacked and are pretty exhausted. We ordered a pizza from Ronnie’s pizza (recommended by Tammy), and are having it delivered. Then we are calling it a night.

Big day tomorrow – an extended sunset cruise on Kekoa. I’ve heard nothing but wonderful things about this boat. Looking forward to it.

luvinsun · Post by **luvinsun** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:21 am

I neglected to give a shout out to Pia, who found and arranged our sunset sail on Kekoa! Thanks Pia! Hopefully we'll get to meet you while we are on island!

byado18 · Post by **byado18** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:21 am

Thanks! Looking out at thr snow in Centrail Illinois and love imagining being on St. John!

Have a great trip!

Pia · Post by **Pia** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:26 am

Yay you have arrived

Hopefully we will meet at sometime this trip - can't wait to hear all about Kekoa especially as they have live music tonight - woo hoo

Pia

parafins · Post by **parafins** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:31 am

Hey,we stayed st that home back in 2006.Nice home,but if your in the shower others can view you from the edge of the deck.We had a lot of laughs about that!

Rachelle & Joe · Post by **Rachelle & Joe** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 2:00 pm

Hi Fellow Buckeye's

Glad ya made good time after that delay on runway ! Snowy, Cold & WINDY here in Cleve. today

Temps. suppost to B in 50's next wk. ?? crazy winter so far ! Have a Sunny, Warm, Funtastic trip ! look forward to hearing about your sunset cruise

ENJOY ~

toni · Post by **toni** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:25 pm

Yay trip reports, but don't stress yourself too much about posting daily, enjoy every moment down there

And it was snowing and blowing along the pa Ohio border this am so it's a good time to be on stj!

mindehankins · Post by **mindehankins** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:16 pm

A trip report! Hurray! Please feel free to ramble on and on and on! I'm hungry for a good report! With some pics, if you can!
Thank you in advance

wholealmonds · Post by **wholealmonds** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:45 pm

Same as mindehankins, would love to hear a report from the island!

Kentuckygirl · Post by **Kentuckygirl** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:40 pm

I love trip reports, especially live ones!

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