We are home

[Marcia (Mrs. Pete)]

We left St. John yesterday. Took the noon ferry out. You know how it is when you have to be out of villa by 10, you wander around aimlessly for a couple of hours until it's time to get the tickets for the ferry.

ANYWAY, I noticed when we first got there that there was a great big "17TH" printed on the sand. Uh-oh, what to do? I wanted to write something but didn't want to erase someone else's art. We had been hanging out with Ruth and Ron, and she suggested that she'd get a photo of it, and email that to him. At that point, I could then erase the message (it had been in the sand for a couple of hours) and write my own.

So, I'm there making a great big heart in the sand when some guy comes over and says: "HEY, you beat me to it!" with a generous laugh. I was feeling pretty guilty as it was about erasing the "17th" and then this guy who seems really nice tells me that he just wants to leave a little message for his forum friends and I've pretty much taken up all of the viewable space. At this point, I feel really badly. But, forum members have now met. It was funny:

"who are you?"
"Capt.Kirk"
"who are you?"
"Mrs. Pete"

Yes, a very nice guy!! We try to figure out a way to get his message in and decide it won't work.

Here we are introducing ourselves:

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The dreaded walk of woe begins; here is Pete making it official, putting the ferry tags on the luggage. I guess we really do have to leave.

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To CaptKirk, sorry we didn't have more time to chat. We saw you waiting for the Detroit departure in FLL and didn't have a chance to say "good-bye." Hope all of your travels went well. Apparently, ours did, as we are home now.

Don't know when the trip report will come...

[bevm]

Can't believe you met at The Walk of Woe... Love your heart! Sorry you're back to reality. As they say...IT BITES!!!
Hey Cptnkirk, were you going to leave an "OSU" in the sand??? Go Bucks!

[California Girl]

My condolences on your return. Hope Pete made it home without needing any Depends

[cptnkirk]

Hey guys nice to meet ya maybe we'll meet again on island and have some drinks someday. Glad you made it home safe and sound. To cool Ruth got us talking on the web cam

[CariBert]

Hey Everybody!! Welcome home. You know, that is quite possibly the only down side of going to St. John.......you gotta come back......sometimes the WOW is a killer, but happy times are comin makin plans to return!!


-Bert

[17th Hole]

So it was you, eh? I was watching you on my iPhone while we were on the 11:15am ferry to CA. I got a PM from Ruth and she sent me the picture of my sandscrit.

We were wondering where the Capt and his crew were until we saw them on the dock on the webcam. We were trying to read your sandscrit but we couldn't make out what it said.

We didn't get home until 4:30 in the morning on Sunday. That made for one hell of a long day! Glad everyone is home safe. Looking forward to reading your Trip Reports. I'll try to post mine in the next few days, although I have over 800 pictures to sort through first.

[traveler22]

Welcome back Marcia(Mrs Pete), cptn kirk & 17th hole. Looking forward to all the trip reports and pictures.

[sea-nile]

Welcome home. Did you have the lousy weather in Madison yesterday? That just makes it harder to return.

[pjayer]

Glad you all made it back without any major incidents. I've really enjoyed your on-island reports. We're going to try to post some reports in July, but I doubt they'll be as entertaining as yours.