Carol,

Thanks for taking the time to open this thread and for sharing your personal experience.

Over 34 years of annual trips we've had many great experiences but I have to say, one of the very best happened the first year we brought our daughters, then aged about 12 and 15.

We were staying in one of the Mullet Bay villas and our girls had been out doing something....well, we looked out the window and there were our two young daughters in the middle of a group of machete wielding groundspeople in our driveway. Needless to say, this Mom's heart went into her throat for the briefest of moments (You know how it is - all those years of admonishing your kids against talking to strangers, etc....)and as we walked out the door to see what was going on, we watched as one of the groundskeepers offered a freshly opened cocanut to one of my girls so they could experience, firsthand and fresh from the fruit, their first taste of fresh cocanut milk. Smiles abounded and while we really couldn't understand completely what they were telling the girls and us, (although I think it had something to do with the fact they had climbed up into the trees to take the coconuts down so they wouldn't fall and hurt the guests???) the language of the smiles spoke volumes all the way around.

St. Maarten/St. Martin, unlike so many of the other Caribbean islands we've visited, is truly a place that will forever remain in my heart because of things of this nature that have happened over all the years we've been fortunate enough to make those annuals trips.

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