Vacation - Part 1

So Wednesday we got back from our long anticipated trip to St. John. Here's a recap:
We headed up to Chicago the night before our flight so that we wouldn't have to get up so early on Tuesday and wouldn't be driving in the morning rush hour. We stayed at the Hyatt Regency which is attached to the Rosemont Convention center. This place was HUGE and very nice. We were able to park in a parking garage which was nice for leaving the car for the whole week. After we got checked in, we were starving so we headed out to find a McDonald's. This was good practice for all the walking we had coming up on vacation...we headed the wrong way at first and it took us forever to find a McDonald's. We finally succeeded, though, and man they have good fries (we hadn't had McDonald's in like three years). In the morning we took the shuttle to O'Hare and started a very long day of traveling. We flew to Miami and then from Miami to St. Thomas. We picked up some customs forms at the airport so that we'd be ready to go when it was time to come home. We grabbed a taxi...which is really just a 15 passenger van, and headed for Red Hook and the ferry. The taxi wound through the hills of St. Thomas and we realized just how mountainous the Virgin Islands are and experienced the craziness of driving on the left hand side of the road - should be fun for driving. We caught the ferry and headed to St. John and Charlie from Lavender Hill met us at the dock to give us a ride to our place. It turned out we were really close to town, we just didn't really know where we were going so it was nice to have a ride. Lavender Hill was awesome - two balconys, a king size bed, cable tv, full kitchen, a pool, a/c, really close to town...it was great. They even had this big binder full of menus for restaurants, fliers for boat rentals, and info about the island. It was after 9:00 by the time we got there, so we pretty much just crashed for the night. Tomorrow the snorkeling could begin :)