Babymoon- Turks & Caicos

If you follow me on instagram you know that I took my babymoon quite a while ago.  Yes I have been very behind at posting on here. To be honest with the holidays, getting sick, my babymoon, and then giving birth one after another I have been distracted with more important things.  I do want to talk about my babymoon though because this place was gorgeous. 

We ended up taking our babymoon with my entire family, adults only trip, to the Turks & Caicos Islands.  Turks & Caicos isn't a very popular destination, most people don't know where it is or that it was a place. I also feel like its the new up and coming destination as well.  There are many small islands but the two main islands are broken up as the Turks & the Caicos. Many people have heard of the Turks since a cruise destination is the Grand Turks, the island that we visited was the main island on the Caicos and its called Providenciales.  

If you are looking for more of relaxing vacation, laying around on the beach, good eating and drinking, gorgeous beaches and some of the best snorkeling then this is the destination for you. If you are more about site seeing and historical travel this isn't the location for you.  The beaches were the best beaches I have ever seen or felt, they honestly felt like baby powder between my toes. The water was an amazing light blue.

When you go to visit be prepared to spend money on food, the food here isn't cheap and either are groceries.  We rented a villa and stocked up on plenty of groceries to eat breakfast and lunch at the villa but most of our dinners were spent dining out. A favorite of ours was Al's Burger joint, we went there twice and I wish we would have gone at least once more.  The service was really good and the employees were so friendly and the burgers were so tender, they melted in your mouth.  The atmosphere was fun as well.  The men on the island are very friendly and helpful but you will notice that the women aren't that way. They aren't friendly, they don't care to help or serve you, and they almost go out of their way to be rude. I don't think they are big fans of the tourists.

Well enough talking about the island and lets show you some pictures of how gorgeous this place really is.  It started out a little overcast and as you can see turned out to be a gorgeous day.

4th of July

It has become tradition to spend the 4th of July at my parents cabin.  Every year we go to a potluck dinner over at our friends house thats right on a lake. It is always fun to see all the other families and catch up with everyone.  Afterwards we always head back to our cabin and watch the fireworks from our patio. It always amazes me at how long people are lighting off fireworks for.  People are easily lighting them off until 2:00 or 3:00 a.m.  This year my brother went a little crazy and we had quite the show at our own dock. Here are a few pictures from the night:

My niece with her sparkler making designs. 

One of our fireworks off the dock.

Our friends firework show across the bay from us. This easily went on straight for 8+ minutes.