Every 4th grader in this country gets a national park pass for free for the year. This gets them into every national park along with 3 adults and any kids under 16 – what a wonderful program! So we checked out a few of books from the library to get us started on where Aiden wants to go during his 4th grade year. Tops on his list was St. John which I didn’t even know was a national park! Apparently, 2/3 of St John is US national park. So that’s what we got the boys for Christmas: a trip over MLK weekend to St John. We spent the whole time hiking and snorkelling. It was glorious!
On the ferry ride from St. Thomas to St. John
Dinner our first night there
Service overall ins’t quick on the island (they are on “Island time”) so the kids found trees to entertain themselves
The view from our hotel
There were chickens and baby chicks everywhere we went
Pre-hike photo
Slightly sweaty post-hike photo
The view from the top of Caneel Hill
Next stop, trunk bay
After lunch, we enjoyed the hotel beach and the sunset
Aiden and the National Park visitor’s center
Passionfruit juice! Yum!
After snorkeling with sea turtles at Saltpond Bay
Aiden’s best iguana friend
And on the way home, we introduced the boys to cuban food at the Miami airport
Williams Family Blog 
Fantastic!!