I don’t even know how we got here already but somehow we are on our last full day here at the St. Regis Maldives. What felt like the far future is now tomorrow and so on cue today started with the Maldives crying for us this morning shower.

This may be a record but I got Jenn to play tennis again even though it was far hotter than any of our previous days. It was also the worst either of us has played since we got here and not only because I lost. Even with that, it was still so nice to get up and get some exercise in so we wouldn’t feel lazy when we did next to nothing for the rest of the day.

At this point, I could almost just start copying and pasting each day’s post and replace a few of the variables from each day. Much is life in the Maldives and we are loving it. We did sleep in a bit more than the last few days but were able to catch the tail end of the sunrise and another beautiful morning.

It’s hard to imagine but two days in a row we’ve been up before the sun and have gone out on our deck and watched the skies turn from dark to light. It’s something day-to-day I’d never even think about doing but on vacation, there’s something magical about it.

When we checked into our overwater villa yesterday they mentioned to us that we had a sunrise view and not to miss it in the morning. Jenn and I joked that we’d probably never be up early enough to see a sunrise but this morning we were up a little after 5AM and watched the sky turn from pitch black to a beautiful sunny morning. It was a beautiful way to start our 12th wedding anniversary something that wasn’t lost on either of us as we sat gazing over the Indian Ocean on our loungers.

The flight to the Maldives was nearly 20-hours worth of flying, not to mention we had an 8-hour layover in Abu Dhabi. So although this is a post about September 18th it does contain a few hours of September 17th when we arrived in Abu Dhabi.