Post Block Pool Party + Orient Bay Beach

If you follow me or Jordan on FB you know that we hosted a post block pool party this past Saturday. I use the term "hosted" lightly because it was a potluck and we all just gathered at our complex's pool. I made this pasta salad, and there we tons of other food- cupcakes, brownies, cookies, chips...and adult drinks. We ended up being out at the pool for 4 hours! It was so nice to be surrounded by genuinely good people. I vote we do this again after every block!

There were more people not pictured

Speaking of blocks...there is only one more block until 1st semester is over!! Hard to believe we've been in St. Maarten for 3 months now! We're looking forward to break. We have family coming into town so I'm trying to plan things to do to maximize our time together before Jordan is back to studying hard for 2nd semester.

Sunday we asked our friend Gozzie if she'd be willing to watch Bradley for a few hours while we went to play Easter bunny and get groceries for the end of the month. What better babysitter then a future pediatrician, huh?! I would have left Ian, but..I only have 4oz of frozen breastmilk and he is super clingy to me at the moment. Anyway, we were able to find good Easter gifts for both boys under $50, get groceries AND stop by Sarafina's for some treats for us and Gozzie all in about 3 hours..that's record island time! 

Since we had a car rented already we decided to not let it go to waste. We headed to a beach, Nettle Bay, that we always pass on the French side that I've been wanting to check out.

We quickly realized this wasn't quite the beach for us! It's very...posh. We immediately felt out of place. Then I saw the sign "Nudist Beach" and decided it was probably time to go. For the record, I honestly don't care about naked people on the beach. I don't even really censor my children, because I want to teach them that there are different cultures, types of people etc., but I knew we could find a more family friendly environment.

Which we did! We ended up at Orient Bay Beach, which is much bigger with tons of things to do. There was a small playground (like a swingset that you'd see in backyards in the states) for Bradley, volleyball nets, surfers, parasailing..just a really fun atmosphere. We stayed until 5pm. The boys were both so tired.

It was a GREAT weekend!!