Just a few things you newbies might like to know:
At the airport in STT steps will wheeled up to the plane, and everything you carried on will go down these steps with you , and stay with you as you make the trek outside and around the terminal so you might think twice about what you carry on and what you are wearing because it will be hot!

When you leave be at the airport at least 2 hours before your flight, last week the lines were long, when you check in, your checked luggage stays with you until you go thru customs and security and this line was wrapped around outside the building so you are pushing things along as you try to fill out your customs form, don't get too excited when you get to the door as there is another long que but things did seem to move along. Inside the departure area there is a restaurant with a long line and a bar with a shorter line so I suggest you drink your lunch! Also a gift shop with twice the prices as anywhere else, I saw a guy put back a USA Today newspaper because it was $3.95! Theres alway a line for the ladies room, just like everywhere else, when will women be designing restrooms?

A few great books I've found, other than what Islander carries:
"Back to the ship" fiction by Teddi Davis who writes for the local newspaper, with the book is a steel pan CD by Andrew Douglas, which is great! Acording to the book he performs sometimes at Bonnies By The Sea at the Elysian Resort. Thats already on my list for next time!

Another fiction I just got into is "Easy In The Islands" by Bob Shacochis.

Non-fiction great reads, "A Trip To The Beach" by Melinda and Robert Blanchard
And "An Embarrassment of Mangoes" by Ann Vanderhoof, the recipes alone are worth the price especially her Pina Colada Cheesecake! All of these books make me wish that in the 70's we had become hippies and found the Islands!