honeymoon - st lucia

This is Trent sitting at the first hotel we stayed at "Ladera Resort". It was amazing! It reminds me of an old world hotel set high up inbetween two of the most beautiful mountains ever! The mountains are called the Pitons, and they rise up straight from the ocean. Trent is sitting on what i can best describe as our balcony! The hotel (as much of you already know) only had 3 walls, the fourth wall would be where Trent is sitting. You can't see it very well but there is a hot tub sized pool to the left of him, and further back there is a waterfall. This hotel was so nice just because of the old world feel! The first few nights here were very hard to sleep because of the frogs, YES frogs! They were about an inch or two big, but were so loud - i actually accidentally stepped on one one night, in the dark - i jumped about 3 feet ( i wasn't sure what it was until the next night when we actually saw one sitting on our "balcony"- all i knew was that it was slimy and squishy). Anyways - such a beautiful hotel - with the most amazing tropical flowers surrounding the entire hotel!

by the way - i am hoping to figure out how to upload clips from our video camera that can show the entire rooms (i thought it would be better just to video them - but i should have taken some pictures - oops again!)

This is me trying to get ahold of the girls! I tried and tried and tried during our 9 days being gone, and only reached them maybe 3 times. Which after the fact is probably good, since i think we ended up spending about $200.00 dollars just on the phone calls we made - oops!
(our phones didn't work at all - dang verizon!!)Ok - so talk about the best food ever!!! WOW!! Ladera has a restaurant called Basheene - and there are not words to explain how delicous the food is. It is a wide open restaurant, with a perfect view of the ocean and the Pitons, with great service and to die for food! We ate here 4 nights while we were in St. Lucia (we even drove back after we moved to the 2nd hotel). Trent is eating pineapple and pumkpin tempura! i have never tasted anything so YUMMY!!
Here is the Piti Piton (the smaller one)