Ty and I got to go to Sint Maarten (also known as St Martin, depending which side of the island you're on:) last week, and it was absolutely amazing. I haven't wanted to post about it since we got back because I've been trying to pretend we're still there! We got some really fun pictures though, so enjoy! And big thanks to Kevin and Rach for letting us take over their apartment and their lives for a week!
This is the view off the balcony of Kevin and Rach's apartment, you can't really tell in this picture but the ocean is between Ty's head and mine :)
We hadn't thought to bring clothes for church, so luckily I had something to wear, but Ty borrowed some from Kevin. It was sooooo cute...for those of you who don't know Kevin, he is the most one of a kind dresser you will ever meet, so it was really cute to see Ty in his clothes :)
This is the first beach we went to, called Mullet Bay (cool). Rach and I soaked up the rays while Ty and Kevin tried out skim boarding...
We waited around for the sunset, as it's famous on the island for being beautiful...
It lived up to the hype!
We went to a fun burger joint for dinner. I wish I had more pictures of the fun events, namely the waiter squirting whipped cream directly into my mouth, and the men in drag performing Bob Marley songs for us while we ate. Quite the experience!
We spent the next day on the French side (Kevin and Rach live on the Dutch side). We rode a little boat out to this cool little island, Pinel. It was the prettiest beach I've ever seen. In the picture on the beach, the mountains behind us are Sint Maarten, and then the next one is Pinel behind us when we're leaving. We wished we could have spent more time there, especially since we all ended up taking naps on the beach most the time we were there. Ty was able to buy a $31 hamburger for lunch though, so that was good...
Kevin and Ty checking out some cool shopping...Ty and me in the middle of a cool little square
A nice photo op. In the good old days I would put this picture in a frame. I don't know when the last time I printed off a picture was...
We didn't know this before going, but the French side of St Martin is famous for its great food! The restaurant we're at in this picture was featured on the food network recently, and the area we were eating at, Grand Case, is the "Culinary Capital of the Caribbean". The food was delicious!!!!
We happened to be there over "Sint Maarten's Day", which on the island requires that everyone closes their store. This worked out perfect cause Rach and Kevin didn't have to work that day. Its great that they know all the locals, they got us a great deal on an awesome excursion that took us to a couple islands to snorkel. We went to Anguilla, Prickly Pear, and a little one called Sandy Island. Anguilla had the most beautiful beach and water I'd ever seen, and we did the greatest snorkling at all three islands. It was awesome, I was a little scared of all the jelly fish, and we saw a barracuda off Anguilla. Creepy!
Another photo op...I still can't believe how white the beach was and how blue the water was!!!
The last day Kevin and Rach had to go back to work, so we hung out and played at the beach...
Kevin has gotten into spear fishing over there, so the last night Ty went with him, and Kevin caught a Red-tailed Snapper! Apparently they're really good to eat :) I was going to go, but their other friend that they went with had seen a shark there a couple days before...so needless to say I opted out...I was proud of Ty for going though!
Another fabulous meal the night before we left...I wish we could have stayed longer!
I had to include this cool picture at the Jump Up casino, because we spent most of our nights there playing Bingo :) Unfortunately neither Ty or I won big, but Kevin did win $50 one night...Thanks again Radebaugh's, we had a blast!!!!!
Maddix was so sad...which in turn made Ty so sad :(
We had a competition to see who could look the best for church considering we forgot to take church clothes...luckily at the last minute I was able to borrow a skirt from Rach so I wasn't there in my purple pants. 
