The Jensen Journey...: Thanksgiving 2012... Virgin Islands Style

This year Jim and I decided that we wanted to take a trip on our own for Thanksgiving. The past few years we haven't been with family but with our good friends Chris and Caressa for the holidays which has been a lot of fun but this was the year to just get away. Growing up, American Thanksgiving wasn't a huge holiday at my house since all of our family is Canadian and Canada has their own Thanksgiving in October... so the possibility of going without turkey and stuffing for a year was ok with me. :)

We knew we wanted to go somewhere tropical so we looked up where we could go using Jim's hotel points and settled on the Westin in St. John. We had our first uneventful trip down which was so great (if you know us, you know our terrible travel luck)... no delays or cancelled flights and after the ferry ride we settled in around 8:00 on Sunday night. :)

We loved the resort... the food wasn't too overly priced, I loved the lunches, the pool was HUGE, taxis were easy to get, and the beach was private. I was also impressed with the amount of family activities they had... huge water trampolines, floats you could check out for free (my favorite thing), a movie & popcorn night at the pool, etc. I guess I was just surprised that a lot of families with kids would go to the Westin Resort but I guess there's no reason not to :)

We also had some great meals. We loved Sun Dog Cafe in Mongoose Junction and I would definitely recommend it! It is all outdoors with shoppers walking by but we got a cozy table for two in an little alcove. We also ate at The Fish Trap which was great too.

It was such a relaxing vacation... we only left the Resort twice and I slept about 11 hours every night which was amazing. We are usually go go go on vacations doing lots of sightseeing but it was so nice to just sit around by the pool and on the beach and read and relax. We need to take more vacations like that!

Here are a few pictures from the trip!