So this is my way of keeping the memories of our time in St. Thomas U.S.V.I. So lets start from the beginning.
We arrive in the St. Thomas airport around 9:30 pm and claim all but one bag. We go let American Airlines know it didn't arrive. With the luggage we have we catch a taxi to our destination. Fatboys is the Restaurant we will be working at and we are supposed to meet our boss there. As we are riding to the restaurant I feel many mixed emotions. Sadness that we are away from home, tiredness from traveling all day. A little anxiety, the taxi driver is a little on the crazy side. We arrive in front a building that looks pretty nice. I see a sign for Fatboys, but not sure where it is actually located. we unload all our luggage, 5 suitcases at this point. We decide to try the stairs over to the left because everything else is closed. We arrive at the top of the stairs to a picture on the door in front of a very fat man jumping into the water with a shark under him saying, "oh man now I have lost my appetite!" It kinda cartoonish, sorta funny. We walk into the bar suitcases in hand. We know from conversation to ask for Chris. Okay so we meet Chris he offers us free food and drink and says " Eric will be here soon". (Eric is the boss man) We eat and the food is good, but we are tired so well wouldn't taken much for us to say it was good. We had margaritas and waited, and waited. Getting close to 11pm and we are tired, still no Eric. So Tory asks Chris if he can call him cause we are waiting for him to show us the Condo we will be living in so we can rest after a long day of travel. Eric finally shows up 11:45 ish with his business partner Zach. Okay so I personally don't mind that they had, had a few drinks, but they drive up beers in hand. We load up our luggage and head up the hill behind Fatboys. Lug all of our bags up to our Condo and stand and talk for a bit. We admit that we are really tired and ask if we can talk tomorrow. Eric says " I am leaving on Friday so I will be busy, just ask Chris any questions you may have. You don't have to work until Monday unless you want to. The schedule is covered until then. So at this point I am thinking why was it such a big deal to get us down here so quickly if he is leaving on Friday? I brush it a side and figure it will be okay and to not worry about the little things. Zach and Eric say goodnight and we start to settle in. We find our pillows and crawl into bed. So looking back at that day as I tell it, I see that the "Red Flags" start popping up early in this experience. At the time I just felt generally concerned but nothing was sounding really bad yet. As I continue on this Chronicling of our adventure the "red flags" pop up more often and then eventually tip the scales of Cons versus Pros. Stay tuned there will be more!
