Art O’Connor

My Caribbean adventure is over. To be honest I had pretty low expectations for this trip. The idea of being trapped on a boat for a week sounded like a week in hell. Still though it has been a long time since the whole family has been together and that was something to look forward to so I figured I would make the best of it. I shouldn’t have even worried. The boat was soooo relaxing. Both Rachel and slept better than we have in months. I was amazed at how relaxed I was and realized how much stress I have been carrying around lately. It all pretty much was left on the dock in Ft. Lauderdale. We stopped in St. Maarten and St. Thomas, both days were spent swimming in the ocean (Orient Beach and Magens Bay) and sipping cool drinks in the shade. I only checked my e-mail twice and did not talk on the phone once for 7 days straight. I had plans to get all kinds of work done, make some important business decisions, and run everyday. Somehow none of that seemed important and none of it got done (I did run twice and swam a little).

Now back to the real world.