We attended our church's Chrismas Eve Service with the Lewis family and then did our annual Freund family drive down Riverview Blvd to see the Christmas lights and luminaries while listening to Christmas music on the radio (it really is the little things that are so great!)
Max opening his stocking
James really enjoyed his train set from Santa, it is awesome! This was the first year James really got into the whole Santa thing, so he was pretty excited on Christmas morning and promptly woke up Mom and Dad.
Thank you Nana and D-daddy! This thing is awesome!
Here is Max driving his new four wheeler, he thinks this thing is pretty cool. (please excuse the construction zone......)
A rainbow over Christiansted in St.Croix.
Sigh
We met some of our clients (Jay and Anne Dickerson) who left Bradenton less than a month ago and are cruising down the islands. They are members of the St. Croix yacht club and Dave and Diane had reprosity from their Buffalo yacht club, so we all decided to meet up there. Of course Jay had some jobs for Jim and Jim brought him some wire and supplies he needed.
St.Croix Yacht Club
This is a very nice sailboat that Dave noticed floating by us one night in the anchorage while we were having dinner in the cockpit. It had broken from its mooring and was heading straight for the reef right outside the yacht club. Lucky for us, the men quickly engaged their super powers and jumped in the dinghy rescuing the boat. I've never seen three grown men who had been drinking rum all day move so fast! They were so excited, they towed her into the dock and the next morning anxiously awaited their hefty reward. Unfortunately the owner was nowhere to be found, and all they got was a "thank you" from the Yacht club. The owner eventually contacted Jay who told him to make a donation to the youth sailing club at the yacht club, maybe they will name a couple of hobie cats after them?
We rented a car on Sunday in order to see more of the island. This is a view from the eastern most point of US territory, Point Udell. Beautiful!
It was basically a thatched roof hut/bar in the middle of the rain forest.This is Dave attempting to give the pig a beer, he was a little jitterish, but I can't blame him, those things had some serious razors!
So the story goes, there was a wild pig that used to visit the bar (Buster), one day a man at the bar offered Buster a beer and he drank it. Everytime the man would come he would buy a beer for Buster. Before long, Buster became a show. Rumor has it he died of psorosis of the liver, so now they only give the pigs O'Douls. They take the can, crush it, suck all of the beer out and then toss the can on the ground, its pretty entertaining, I gotta say these were the biggest pigs I've ever seen!
Diane finally had to step up and help the poor pig out, he was getting frustrated with Dave. Thank you Diane!
At the end of our road trip we stumbled (more literal for some of us.....) across the coolest place called Cane Bay, it was a great beach with some restaurants and beach bars around it and great diving. The bar we found was called Off the Wall, it practically sat right on the ocean, it was awesome. I could have stayed here for a really long time......
This is the face of a happy man.
Dave aka "Hawk eye" noticed this dinghy floating in the middle of the ocean on our crossing back to St.Thomas from St.Croix, we were miles from anywhere so it was a little erie.
We called the Coast guard to make sure noone was missing and they said a dinghy was reported missing from Buck Island off of St.Croix. We stayed for about 30-45min surveying the area, we didn't want to leave anyone behind, just in case. 
All aboard!!
Max and Uncle Todd (aka "Truck", another favorite word...) chillin in the rocker
We took a trip to "Old Town" so the kids could ride some rides. It turned out to be a really cool place with rides everywhere, shops, restaurants, bars, live bands, a train ride, even a car show. We had a great time! Gg was very brave and rode the teacups with the boys, thank goodness because Mommy and Daddy aren't too fond of the spinning type rides...........
James and Popster playing air hockey at the timeshare, Popster has pretty good competition.
Our cheese ball yummy mummy.....
Nana won 1st place for best costume, D-daddy won 2nd. They were hillarious, they wore Eston and Tammis Austrian? costumes, it was fantastic!
Sarah won 3rd place for her flamingo costume
The kids had a ball trick or treating, Max LOVED it, he would push through all of the kids and run to the doors and then just look at the people, he wasn't even interested in the candy..... yet..... just wanted to see the people at each house.
Sarah and D-daddy
Our friends from the marina joined the festivities, Patrick, Amy and Aspen.
The Gooby family went with the Peter Pan theme. Tiger Lily, Capt Hook, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell enjoying some good food
The Freund family went with a Midevil theme, a wizard, tavern winch, knight and dragon (roar!)
Musical chairs was a hit, especially when everyone gets a chair, wait a second.........
Uncle Todd was some kind of rasta dude, his hair kept collecting more and more random articles as the night went on
