Happy Easter!

Happy Easter from St. Croix! Yes, we still have chocolate bunnies and peeps and egg hunting contests, but we don't have any commercials for any of these things! Actually, St. Croix has very few advertisements on the whole island, even for things that tourists would probably like to do. And this is one of the reasons that everyone who lives here loves this island versus maybe some other islands that are very commercial. I remember being in the Bahamas one summer and there was a man going up and down the beach advertising his "booze cruise" and there were women walking up and down the beach selling trinkets. There are few people on the beaches in St. Croix much less anyone walking up and down advertising anything.

There are cruises here and trinket stores as well but they get advertised online or by word of mouth. Even television commercials don't advertise local events and the things that are advertised are not available here. It almost feels like the way life used to be 30 years ago. When we go to the store here, we buy things based on what we need and not what we saw on television 30 minutes earlier. It's refreshing to be less commercial here and maybe that's why we don't buy a lot of stuff here period. Young kids here spend their Friday and Saturday nights outside on the beach rather than in front of a television or a computer and they spend their days outside with animals and with other kids their age. This type of life isn't for everyone but I liked the way things were 30 years and I like the way things are here now.