Journal of Pier Luck

I have been horrible about keeping up on this! Between posting pictures of everything I've been doing and emailing Dustin and everyone else in the family to keep them updated, I haven't had the energy at the end of the night to blog! A little catching up: Had a bicycle wreck at the Watermelon 100 mile ride at the end and hurt my shoulder, hip, and hand, but they are healed now! I was so lucky! The next weekend was the Nations Tri which I coached for Team in Training. Thankfully I wasn't participating in it! All five of them completed the triathlon and did very well and I think they all had fun too! That was in DC the second week of September. The third weekend was the MS 150 which was really a two day 172 mile ride between St. Augustine and Daytona and it was tons of fun! I rode with a great group of people and we partied too hard on Saturday night and then had to ride back the next day. I definitely want to do that again and now someone just told me there is anoth...

So, my trip to Curacao was amazing! I realized that not a lot of people know where Curacao is....heck, I didn't before I decided to fly there. It is a part of the Netherlands Antilles and it is considered the southern Carribean. It is part of the ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao) and it is just north of South America. They say on a clear day, you can see Venezuela from where we were, but we never saw it. Even though it was perfect weather every day. I kept thinking it was going to be cloudy at least with all the storms out there, but it never was at our resort. So, pretty much by day, we spent the day on the beach/at the pool and by night, went to the bars and danced! We went to Mambo Beach both Sunday night and Monday night. Sunday was crazy (all the locals were there-Monday, they weren't). I met a lot more of Dustin's friends from the ship. Somehow a dance contest broke out in the corner of this awesome bar on the beach. So, basically a bunch of Navy guys ar...