We absolutely LOVE getting emails like this one, totally unexpected.  It gives us warm fuzzies inside!
Ah, Melissa,
We are safely home, snow/ice/sleet/rain (snicanslain) predicted for tonight, and the realities of your blissfully welcoming mountain aerie all the more blissful in comparison.

Thank-you, once again, for a FIFTH year of our blissful week in your lovely island abode [...]

From our friend Michelle at Dive Experience:
Well, the humpbacks are here! You can probably see them from Villa Soleil!  Yesterday I did a dive off of Cane Bay.  We saw a huge reef shark, spotted eagle ray, southern sting ray, two sea turtles, and a sea horse.  Not bad for a mornings [...]

As I look out my window this morning at another day where most schools and businesses are closed and neighbors are shoveling cold, wet, white stuff, I am definitely dreaming of Villa Soleil and St. Croix.  Temperatures above freezing for several weeks had cleared the ground, my early blooming tree’s buds are beginning to peek [...]