Wednesday

The swallows of Capistrano return every year on March 19. Nobody knows why on that particular day but they do.

The Divi Little Bay resort in St. Maarten is our Capistrano. Around this time every year my friends are getting ready to leave for their pilgrimage to this place. With most of them this has been going on for several decades while with some newbies maybe one and a half decade.

To do this every year without interruption is habit forming. Several friends say at the end of their stay that this was the last time, it was getting boring and next year they would try some other place.

Talk is cheap and the following year all the swallows return!

There is something to say about familiarity. The place is almost like going home. It is not a five star resort, it is not a perfect resort but it is familiar.

The staff is friendly and many of them are long time friends. So, going back each year is something everybody look forward to.

I will not go this year. I am sorry we are not going but my fiancé and I decided to try something different. While our friends will fly south we will fly west. We will be going to Las Vegas. Neither of us has been there before and we are very excited about our upcoming trip.

Since we will be together I'm sure we will have a great time.