USVI-On-Line

Well, while I absolutely hate the whole 60 day final payment policy for villas these days there is an upside: Trip Soon Come!!

I also managed to snag some great airline tix for our December sailing trip with Scuba Girl and Vicki et al.

I don't know why but a trip doesn't seem really real to me these days until I actually purchase the airline tix. Maybe cause I know that there ain't no way in hell I'm going to see that money again once the tickets are booked!

So with one trip at the 59 day mark and another one to look forward to in December while I am doing the Walk of Woe on June 29th... I think I'm in pretty good shape.

So.. back to the topic header... when does your trip seem real to you? when do you really get excited about your trip?

I think for me it's when those wheels are up on that first leg of our flight & we're on our way. Although I'm having to surpress the excitement now somewhat cause I can drive my family crazy with STJ talk, giggles & smiles (not that's there anything wrong with that!!!)

Oh Heck i have to wait till next June and i am already driving my hubby Crazy
At least 2 weeks before i really go wacko with excitement

Quote from my wife last night: "Why are you asking me about a rental car when our trip is 8 months away??".

She gets it, but only to a certain extent. The minute I knew there was a chance we were going back I got excited. Now the dates are set and tix are paid for, I can't get enough St. John and will probably average an hour a day researching our trip (in between researching our 20th anniversary trip to Napa in June).

We started planning our June trip during dinner with friends on July 4, 2008. I start getting excited as soon as I know everyone is "in"...I think its because I am 100% sure EVERY trip is going to be GREAT...for everyone...each time something gets paid (villa, vehicle, airfare...)the excitement just gets worse for me...so...I have about 2 months before our 10 day trip (we noramlly do 7 ) and we are ALL excited...

When we walk down the steps of the plane at the STT airport!

I've been excited since the day I "met" you folks. It's getting bigger and bigger as soon come is coming sooner!

I'm with Becky, that island air and jet fuel (I know only the forum would know that great smell) means it is "real".

Then I have to look in the airport windows and see those sad people leaving which reminds me to enjoy EVERY single second...

My room temperature rum punch- and I am officially excited-excited-like-a kid-excited...

I don't even mind waiting for the luggage!

I'm excited now too, but it does still seem far away. Especially when EVERY day Jenna asks "how many more days till St. John..." And it is still a big number!

Hubby and I will be there in 22 days, 17 hours and 39 (or so) minutes...but who's counting

My wife gets that last minute nervous/hectic feeling a week or so before we leave and that tends to spread to me too. The night before when we pack I get excited....have a few drinks to calm down and try to sleep. Then we usually stay at a hotel next to the airport the night before our early am flight. Once we check into the hotel then we both get excited again and "have" to have a couple drinks to sleep again....which usually does not work. Then its off in the early am and it really hits about the time we are getting a bite to eat at the airport while waiting to depart

Well, for me it was about two weeks ago. I sent the balance in for the villa and made sure the jeep was squared away. Ever since, I've been mentally packing the bag, trying to decide which day to go over to Jost, whether I would ever get Roger to take the walk down to Salt Pond to see what everone here is talking about. And work got a little horrible (not so bad but kind of bad) so I started daydreaming more.... So, I guess that makes it about 2 and 1/2 months out for me. But I get really exited when we get on the ferry at Charlotte Amalie and the engines start running.

Gromit wrote:So.. back to the topic header... when does your trip seem real to you? when do you really get excited about your trip?

Timely topic.
TODAY is the answer. All of a sudden I'm emailing the girlfriends with whom I'm traveling with lists of things they should remember to pack, logistics of where we'll want to buy supplies once we arrive, discussion about which day they'd like to go to JvD, etc. Then I go check the spice cam for a moment. Can you say obsession!
Plus, I think I've got my DH convinced to cash in mileage for another trip for just the two of us in December. Woo hoo!
It's a gloomy day here in VT; that may be why my heads on STJ.

For me it doesn't really sink in until we're unpacked and putting our toes into the water for the first time. All the prep turns to play.

I get all excited making the plane and villa reservations; then I calm down until about a month before the trip. At that point I'm focused on the webcam WAAAAYYY too much at work Stepping off the plane though is both exciting and strangely calming at the same time-I'm finally here now, I know it and all is well.....