It's Christmas with a St. Lucia twist!

Days two and Three we decided to stay at the resort and check out what the resort had to offer! It was christmas after all! It was amazing to hear about the local customs and traditions. I bet you didn't know that it is tradition that you paint your walls with a fresh coat of paint... They also get new draperies for their home. At the resort, they had Christmas music playing but it was great because it had that reggae twist. I enjoyed it! Todd who hates Christmas music, tolerated it because it had a good beat to it!
After laying by the pool we took a "romantic" stroll on the beach where we met local native Greg. He stays on the beach right outside our hotel and sells "authentic" coral bracelets and bracelets made from lava rock. He called me princess so of course I just had to buy something from him! I am almost 100% sure he only calls me that and not every other girl on the island.
After our sale transaction he offered to sell us some other recreational activities. We politely declined.
We continued our walk and walked down a little further. We decided to rip off all of our clothing and jump in! We had swimsuits on of course. There was a red flag so we weren't able to do any water sports but we had fun jumping into the waves. I was able to take a couple of pictures thanks to the wonderful self timer on my camera. I like how Todd and I look the same in the picture but the wave has passed in the 2 second difference. Sorry the picture is so small but I am in a two piece and I am not a Victoria's Secret Swimsuit model by any means.

When we returned back to the resort, Santa came! He was greeting everyone at the pool! I had to get a picture with him.

It started to sprinkle so we decided to head back to the resort and get ready for dinner. All places at the resorts require you to dress up. I had to change from my sweatpants and Illinois tee to an actual dress. I even wore heels that I kept on through the duration of dinner. We ate at an Italian restaurant called "Marios" where they serve you with white gloves on to make it seem more exclusive and elite. I thought it lacked both of these qualities. I chose to try the Christmas Ham or what I would have refereed to Bacon. It tasted like cold bacon. Not impressed. Todd tried the steak, it's kind of hard to go wrong with steak, lucky him.

On Day 3 is when the sun finally came out and stayed out for the rest of the trip! We layed by the beach and played pool volleyball. Basically the perfect lazy day. Also I whooped Todd in shuffle board. I am not sure if we played the correct way but we kind of made things up when we went along.

Todd and I both chose one excursion to go on for the next two days. I chose Zipling in the rain forest, and Todd chose "Joe Knows" tour... Both= AMAZING!