The Insiders' Guide to St. Barths: virgin gorda for christmas and holiday wishes

me and the three kids, my wife, my daughters college roomate and my brother and sister in law arrived via phl to sju on american airlines and then air sunshine to virgin gorda on 12- 23-04, we picked up our speedy's p.o.s car rentals and were off to find our villa in the north sound above leverick bay(villa Euphoria)beautiful views small island ,very undeveloped, neat airport landing, the landing strip is on the beach,we got to the villa around1:30 and was i impressed,great location great view,the entire north sound in front of us, fantastic pool,so well equipt with all the bells and whistles, went swimming right away then walked down to leverick bay resort to get provisions and sign up for a week of diving and snorkling with dive bvi(nathan, mark, cori and kevin) were great knew all the great dive sites and saw all the big fishes, cuda, shark and big rays and turtles, dove lots of wrecks, plane and of course the Rhone,rented boats to explore the north sound, did snorkling off or prickly pear and eustatia, took the ferry to saba rock for lunch and dinner several times,great buffet and steaks and banana splits, had christmas dinner at leverick bay resteraunt great prime rib,also nice bbq on christmas eve with mombo jamby reggae and the sky dancers(stilt dancers)and limbo contest(children should not be aloud to compete unfair to us older folk)the girls had several visits to little dix bay resort for spa treatments(my wife and daughter swear the treatments were better than ile de france, i find it hard to beleive but they swear) went snorkling at devils bay,spring bay (my favorite,in my opinion better than the bathes and alot less crowded) the bathes, savannah and pond bay as well, ate far to much giorgios table next to mahoe bay villas was fantastic,homemade pasta and fresh flown in buffola mozzerella, veal chops and rissoto and rome style pizza and great espresso(i loved this place the service the food bellisimo)The rock for giant grilled lobster, chez bamboo,for just about any thing, top of the baths for more lobster(i like lobster what can i say).virgin gorda is a great vacation place no crime very clean, great people,little developement reminds me of barts in the 70's and yes i even let the kids drag me to the top of gorda peak on the last night there, i am looking forward to going to barts in 6 weeks to again take back the experience of what i get from barts but virgin gorda is very different and that to is good ,variety is the spice of life, to many places not enough time.work is just time in between vacations. happy new year to all and keep me laughing!!!