Let me start off by saying if you don't like airplane pics, SKIP THIS THREAD.

Breakfast was fried eggs and ham and toast



After, we went to Carrefour and picked up ribs and wine, got some gas. We had snack of cheese and crackers and fruit for lunch and then embarked on our mission for the day, watching planes!!

We started off watching at the observation deck at Beachside Villas. You can get some awfully nice shots there.



but it does get pretty warm there, so bring a hat and a drink!

True SXM aficionados know that Saturday is the BUSIEST day of the week at Juliana. You'll have to just take my word for it, but all these pictures were taken on Saturday the 18th. Saturdays are the busiest because of timeshare turnover, of course, as well as many others prefer to come in on those days. Saturdays feature your regulars, like


American

and Air France



and Jet Blue



and Delta


plus some routes that they only fly on Saturdays, like United from Dulles



and Frontier from both Orlando and Ft Lauderdale



I don't care what you say about Frontier as an airline, but their planes are DARN pretty to me!


After a while, we got baked enough in the heat and headed for the pool to cool off and to watch the rest of the parade.







Things often got quite crowded.



And that doesn't count all the small guys, like this helicopter that buzzed the runway.



And the various Winair planes. I never realized they have two different liveries.




Plus this guy


and this really old guy, which looked really interesting



And we got to see American take off the 'wrong way', which it seemed that usually they were the only ones who did that.





Afterwards we enjoyed a lovely happy hour wine and snacks courtesy of BeachCouple, and shared many stories and laughs. After. Eric didn't feel like going out, so we had some boring leftovers and another early evening.