Wow, has this year gone by quickly so far! In the spring we have visitor after visitor for a month or more, then Amy finished her semester at Hunter College and we flew off to UT to visit the families. We brought back Emily, Amy’s youngest sister and tried to show her a good time in NY for a month. She left mid July. We relaxed and enjoyed the beach almost every weekend getting excited for our trip to St. Maarten in late August. The week before we left my college roommates and I decided to hold our bi-annual Roommate Reunion/Testosterone Festival. This year we drove to a popular mountain biking trail in Vermont and had a good time while trying not to hurt ourselves. We then stayed the night at our timeshare there in Vermont, again having as much fun as we used to back when I had more hair, Brad had less kids, and Kent had nice abs. 
I got back from VT on Sunday Aug 16th, on Wednesday morning Aug 19th we all headed to JFK Airport to fly to beautiful St. Maarten.
We’d had a bit of a scare and debated calling off the trip, because Hurricane Bill was forecasted to pass just north of the island and we we’ren’t sure flights would be going down there or feared we might get stuck on the island (I wasn’t worried about that – personally, it sounds like a great vacation extension- stuck at a resort on a beautiful tropical island isn’t my idea of suffering.) But in the end the forecast models showed that the Bill would vear north and miss our island. So we decided all systems go – unless they canceled our flight – which they didn’t.
