Guadeloupe 2019 | Caroline Logan Images

It all started one night time once we heard of affordable flight gives expiring in the dead of night. After a few minutes spent googling things like “Where is Guadeloupe” “Is Guadeloupe safe?” now we have been somehow on the phone with Norwegian Airlines confirming our booking. Surprised by means of our non-public spontaneity and however in disbelief IT WAS HAPPENING (and however now not even 100% certain how you’ll be able to pronounce it), we instantly marked our calendars for Guadeloupe and started counting down!!!

Problems I certainly not wanna pass backward and forward without: Perfect Bars. @vanessashenk. (The 50 lbs on my once more I might do without despite the fact that…)

Other problems I don’t wanna pass backward and forward without: A at once from HEAVEN open heart seat on our flight that had us momentarily feeling like we weren’t the affordable travelers we in reality are.We arrived late that night time to our Airbnb, thanked the Lord for safe travels and complimentary bathrobes/resort slippers to call our non-public (nearly wore them all the week at once)… and went to bed utterly oblivious to what awaited us the next morning…… The viewzzzz that *with regards to* made a morning explicit particular person out of me.Wanted to be besties with our Airbnb host Murial from the moment she willingly stood out by means of the road late at night time to lend a hand us to seek out our method there (lol). Alternatively the best phase: her place is brand new so she deeply discounted our stay in alternate for a superb review. SIGN US UP and likely we however keep in touch weekly about this place we move over sooo so much.Considered bringing goat cheese in our backpacks bc we’d move over it that so much (don’t fear we refrained). The main day we’re gathering foods for the week at a tiny grocery store and with regards to fell to the bottom once we spotted a block of cheese with a ???? on it… GUADELOUPE WE LOVE YOU.Glad we rented a car because you’ll wanna be capable of pit prevent for all the *local points of interest.*… TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT. (And as well as don’t move over Pointe des Chateaux !!)Always the women mountain mountain climbing in sandals. Most likely we’ll be told by means of our next trip??I’m having a 2nd bc the ones pics make me so nostalgic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Seeing Guadeloupe for the principle time made me view God’s glory in creation in an absolutely renewed method… and made me excited to get area to the land I *already* know and love, and notice the problems that may have grown mundane spherical me as ACTUAL exact existence miracles and artwork right kind quicker than my very eyes.Pictured beneath is the image that was once *just about* our ultimate alive proper right here on this earth… you think I’m being dramatic… be told on in Vanessa’s words…

“We now have been walking once more to our car from the seaside when Caroline and I see a large stray dog (take our word for it) following closely behind us and as it picked up it’s pace so did we… I’m telling Caroline (and myself) to stay calm, merely omit about it, however it for sure helps to keep getting closer as Caroline helps to keep turning spherical and looking at it while I’m now YELLING at her “Don’t make eye contact!!! It is going to think you wanna play!!!” Too late… Caroline is darting back and forth on the side road (said she was once having a look to “lose” the dog) then next issue I know she’s running up to a car whole of people who don’t communicate English pronouncing “CAN YOU HELP ME? I’m kind of afraid of canine!!!” To which they shrug, in all probability confused by means of her panic as I’m now hunched over and losing it. Happy to record we’re very good and the dog was once in all probability harmless then again… American girls will probably be American girls. ¯_(ツ)_/¯”

Alternatively we lived to tell the tail. (Hahahaa aren’t you glad you’re learning this blog put up presently.)Thankful for: a BFF who’s ready to fill her backpack with the essential things like: endless snacks, a transportable DVD player, and her collection of One Tree Hill DVDs from high school. On account of the ones are the reminiscences I wanna consider endlessly.Moreover thankful for: the best quiche maker on the earth as my pass backward and forward important different.… Aaand an Airbnb we preferred any such lot we had to convince ourselves to challenge out of each day… #homebodiesAsked spherical the city for directions to the nearest foreign exchange alternate (symbol this: me maintaining a twenty greenback bill, smiling, and pronouncing “EURO??” … like every tourist would) now we have been steered in broken English to move proper all the way down to the “PMU.” Following direction and hoping for just right fortune, we arrived… once another time maintaining our $20 and repeating the process. Next now we have been met with an organization no and stern head shake. And of course being as decided as now we have been, I smiled kindly and said… “Mmm… certain??” Alternatively another time, met with a “no” further loudly and inconvenienced this time. We now have been sooo certain that we have got been sent to the proper place and wondering why this man at the foreign exchange alternate refused to lend a hand us, we asked one ultimate time as we grew to grow to be to the left to appear a number of other folks huddled spherical what we *thought* was once a in recent years alternate machine then again instantly realized what now we have been in truth sent to use our money for was once to bet on horse races. Americans………. ¯_(ツ)_/¯If truth be told expected Tarzan to come back again leaping out at any 2d after now we have been at Cascade aux Écrevisses.Once more to civilization/sweat dripping down my once more.And once more to loading on the goat cheese/certainly not in need of this week to complete.Plz realize Vanessa wiping away the laughter tears when recounting our reminiscences from the day. (At least *we* think we’re funny.)We in reality fell proper right into a routine at this place and my easiest complaint is that we couldn’t stay for longer (ok and that the ones chairs didn’t fit in my backpack area).The kind of drives you in truth certainly not wish to end, where each and every convo is interrupted with a “LOOK AT THAT VIEW.” (Or… “Watch out for that car!!!!!!”)Love u bff <3That’s the function of the blogpost where I in reality will have to squint my eyes as I write the ones captions on account of I can’t look via the ones pics without my heart aching a bit of. (I’m a drama queen, I’m well aware.)Even if it was once nearing the end of our trip, an important adventure awaited!! …Now not pictured: Hugo, our fearless boat captain. Who 30 minutes prior was once maximum indubitably chilling at area along with his feet up thinking about he was once in for the night time, when his phone lit up and his friend asked if he was once available to take two random American girls on his boat.

Flash once more to that afternoon, now we have been combing the entire the city (sweating and sulking) desperately in search of a sunset tour, then again NOTE TO ALL: they do not exist. Concept it was once a out of place function until we asked one ultimate explicit particular person… “remember that no.” they said. Alternatively our observe up “You don’t in truth have a friend that would possibly take us?” was once the fee price tag to the best reminiscences and our endlessly favorite Guadeloupean: Captain Hugo <3 (Be informed all the story proper right here.)LOVE U MISS U HUGO !!Thanks for forcing us to be brave and showing us the Guadeloupean sea-life…And for being a very good paparazzi.We owe it all to you for the best memory of our trip (no, our LIVES).A memory we’d be shocked to hear our *non-public* daughters are living in the future then again PROMISE WE WERE SAFE, MOM!And hereeee I believed I was your favorite, Hugo…However in wonder we got the boat shuttle of our dreamz and that we somehow managed to keep up a correspondence our “GOAT CHEESE” pizza order to our waitress… hand signs/goat sounds and all.Sat out proper right here on our ultimate morning and actually regarded as supergluing our rear ends up in the ones chairs so now we have been stuck proper right here 4evz.And our Airbnb host Murial once another time wowed when she steered us she wanted to satisfy us at 6am to “see us off” … <3 (Maximum unquestionably to make sure we didn’t check out the superglue thought, let’s be exact.)Thanks for the mems, Guad…… and Lucas.The one issue that saved the tears from flowing… the hope of CHIPOTLE once we landed on U.S. soil.Little did everyone knows, one final adventure awaited us… I’ll let Ness tell that story despite the fact that…

“Merely another reason I will keep unswerving to Apple until my lack of lifestyles day. On our train shuttle area from JFK to Lancaster, I left my phone on the seat for the reason that train took off (at the side of visions of in spite of everything sleeping in my own bed after 13 hours of pass backward and forward) and we discovered it may well be stopped 45 minutes away, so we frantically and in reality safely drove to Harrisburg, the use of the To find My iPhone app on Caroline’s phone to appear it was once stopped at that train station. Symbol two girls (one on the verge of tears??) running within a very quiet train station asking if anyone came upon a phone. An *angel* officer helps us search the train and no just right fortune. I’m about to wreck down and accept the defeat, coming to the realization that I’ve maximum indubitably merely out of place all my footage at the side of my Chipotle app login, when I concentrate him tell me “it’s maximum indubitably stolen” as Caroline whispers “it is NOT stolen” so I open the app another time and notice that my phone is ON THE MOVE. We find out it’s on a definite train (it kind of feels that during a kind-hearted effort to lend a hand us, this angel officer had us having a look out the improper train) and my phone was once “on the train once more to Lancaster.” Long story temporary (oh wait lol) our new friend asked police at the Lancaster station to search around the train for my phone throughout the 60 seconds it was once stopped, and you’ll be able to imagine the uproar and obnoxious scene Caroline and I caused once we heard all through the phone “touchdown!!!” and we drove once more to Lancaster to go looking out my phone, merely where I left it.”Gotta close this put up with the video Vanessa made that I can’t prevent observing. <3333