Guirigay and Sweetie Pie’s PaRedux It’s all true and it never really happened…

[spottycatz]

Absolutely brilliant! You fellow turtles are all crazy! Love you all!

[ralonzo29]

So I've been MIA from reading the turtle trip reports. Just catching up now and I LOVE LOVE LUV my man Guirigay's recall of the events along with his internal commentary. Its nice to know at some point he and I were on the same page. Basically WTF can I do to win this up against the big guns and the acrobats. I did truly bring me back. At any moment you saw me not splashing I was basically think UHM NOW WHAT. Well when it came down to MANO A MANO (not to be confused with MONO y MONO - which means basically ape to ape) I think the show men did their best. As for Guirigay's last flop he went for the heart strings and well I just showed them all my HOT CHOCOLATE MANnerism doing what men do best, falling flat on their face But the flop was fun and I write my next lines as an ode to my fellow flop combatants, you will go down in history as the best, the brightest , the first :


On this Day 8 Floppers were set,
To drink and smoke and get really wet.
Thanks to Brasi the pain was for cause,
For some of us the pain would cause pause.

To talk the purest flop for all invested,
Musicdoc wins this uncontested.
If its aerial height and ability to fly,
even R.Kelly can see Drummerboy and Gonjon win the tie.
Boogers got skin & the floppers tuck
Sandies got Rocker Style, She don't give a F@$k

Now GerryG had the biggest wake
But back flopping came and stole his cake.

I have to admit Guirigay shook my cool
The minute his first flop hit the pool
With props and bribes and a sly cunning grip
his flops came alive with pure showmanship.

But Guirigay fell victim to one of the classic blunders,
A folly that surely pulled him asunder.
The most famous being about land wars in Malaysia,
Whats that Vizzini, oh I'm sorry its Asia.
But only slightly less well known but equally sublime
Never go in against a Ninja when the FLOP is on the line.

[marley9808]

LMAO!
That was Awelarious babe!

The Princess bride nod got me.....you know how I love that movie!

[Guirigay]

Turtlemates, thank you Ninja - I am humbled... and appreciative of your verse. See Boogs, you can't stop it, it's what the people want! Well, probably not, but there is just enough momentum out there to keep the silly ball rolling. "I didn't do it!"

[Guirigay]

Tuesday - The Magic Bus (Ooh Yeah, The Magic Bus)

We’re up early this morning, we’re going to catch the sunrise. Water is boiled and we break open the High Mountain coffee we bought at the store on Sunday. Grab the Banana Rum Cream and we’re up to the rooftop for the unveiling of the day. It is greeted with much pleasure and anticipation. We brought Manda home with us last night. She got a little carried away at the Belly Flop and we put her to bed early with only minimal fuss. We roust her this morning and she’s a little grumpy, especially because we’ve already finished the coffee. She grabs a quick smoke on the porch before we get going.





I grab a bankroll for the day and move the cash stash, letting Sweetie Pie know where I put it. We have a brief conversation with the landlord. We talk about sheets and towels. I tell him we’re good, don’t need to waste water, we’ll let him know when they smell  He likes this. “You’re a real Jamaican, mon,” he says, “Respect.” I let him know we’re touring today, we’ll be back late. He says he heard us trying to turn on the stove today before using the electric water kettle. “I’m sorry, shoulda done it already but you said you wouldn’t be cooking much this trip.” “No worries, mon,” we say and we head out. Manda just can’t resist fooling with the dogs in the yard. They’re very cute…





Sweetie Pie wants to grab some shots of street dogs. She has a website she’s created about them. We’re hoping to find Scar, our ever present street dog pal from February. We do get a lot of shots but I’ll leave the selection of the dog shots and where they are posted to Sweetie Pie. We do grab a few other beauty shots on our way up the lane.

[Guirigay]

We walk our old morning route in reverse, going up as far as Home Sweet Home. We stop in, wondering if Juli is up, but there is NO ONE moving at HSH at 7 in the morning. Manda though, apparently feeling her mojo from porch time, wants to dive off the cliffs. Manda! The seas are rough this morning! Waves are crashing over the sea access deck!





We head back toward Mi Yard for some breakfast, walking up the lanes a little in the area where we would always run into Scar. No sign, in fact there aren’t many dogs at all in the area where we used to run into Scar. Walking up some of the lanes is pretty eye opening as well, you don’t have to go far up some of them to see the poor conditions many Jamaicans live under. Shrub hovels are right there in the brush if you look, we decide NOT to take a picture and head back toward West End Road.

Manda is a handful, running after everything. She wears me out and I need a break. I try to give her a stern talk but she just doesn’t seem to hear me.





And to prove it, as soon as we get settled in at Mi Yard for a little breakfast she is bolting for the beach across the road. Manda! What a handful!





We order some coffee and breakfast, Sweetie Pie gets a fruit plate and mango juice and I know I’m going to have saltfish dumplings. Sweetie Pie REALLY wants soursop juice here. It’s the one thing she told me I didn’t include in our last trip report, how much she loved the soursop juice at Mi Yard, but they’re out. Mrs. Mi Yard remembers me ordering a whole plate of dumplings back in February. “You really do like them!” she says. Ya, mon! Sweetie Pie grabs a few shots after we’re done as we wait for the Magic Bus. I point out the shot through the Mi Yard gate I tried to get last time. No fishermen yet this morning though…





I think this is a pretty spectacular shot…





She usually has a better eye for subject matter but I still like this one…





It’s a little after 8, the Magic bus should be here soon…

[Sweetness]

Woohoo more report......the ONE LOVE boat picture is EPIC and needs to be submitted for publishing. More more more pretty please.

[TizzyATX]

Fantastic

Can't wait to hear your tale of this day...Marley posted hers this morning and just really did a No. on me. So bring it on, I'm already a freakin mess. LOL

Tell you what, I miss you all everyday but some days are harder and this one has been KILLA!

ONE LOVE

[Guirigay]

Every day I get in the queue (Too much, the Magic Bus)
To get on the bus that takes me to you (Too much, the Magic Bus)

We see the Magic Bus coming down the lane and pulling into Mi Yard. This thing is going to get rolling! We step onto the bus and there is the slightest sense of dimensional shift, I think Rod Serling referred to it as the HighLight Zone. We knew it was going to be a long day, what we didn’t fully realize at the moment was that it was a trip that would last a lifetime…

I'm so nervous, I just sit and smile (Too much, the Magic Bus)
Your house is only another mile (Too much, the Magic Bus)

Whoop whoops and hey ya’s get it going, I bust out the banana rum cream for a pass around. Chicken isn’t driving, his brother Pelle is behind the wheel. This cat runs an operation! Pelle is a great guy, just like his brother, not the other brother, and he will book end my day in quite different ways. The Catcha Crew is all onboard and we’re quickly and deeply into tales of the Flop and last nights adventures. We’re excited to tell everyone we’ve cleared it to have a little cocktail party on the roof at our crib one evening this week, everyone is excited to get a chance to check it out. We all have dreams of extended stays down here. We’re on our way up Norman Manley to grab to rest of our bale (check THAT definition out gang!) and with each mile, each stop, our mojo cranks up. Mr. Mojo’s Risin’! Becca’s on board and she’s full of Sass! Patty comes out to say hello and looks impossibly pulled together for this time of morning. She is so sweet we think about kidnapping her.

Brasi is on board next after a brief fright that he was out of service. He’s quiet and subdued, perhaps having been consumed a little by the glory of his accomplishment yesterday. He gets a hero’s welcome even with his tucked tail…

Luvsdaislands is supposed to be next but she has her schedule mixed up. We were disappointed at the time, doubly so after reading her trip report. We woulda had some fun.

Daisy and Markus join us at SeaSplash and Jim comes out to say he’s not going to make it. Apparently he LEFT Mi Yard not too long before we GOT there! Things are really starting to pick up now. We forgot to grab SpottyCatz on the way to SeaSplash so we stop on the way back. Mr. SpottyCatz steps on the bus with a drunkards beer cooler. You’ve seen these before, red and white boxboard with a hole ripped in them… I ask if I can test it out for functionality. It worked perfectly, all the beer was still cold when it was consumed…

The pick up of the sallying sojourners was really pretty quick and with limited incident. We have everyone on the bus by 8:30-8:45 in the morning. It was absolutely NOT any indicator for the day. Nothing else this day would happen in any form of apparent coordination. Next up is cash call so we head for the Scotia ATM. This would end up being a loooonnnngggg stop. Turtles seem to disperse in multiple directions. I pretty much hang at the bus and am pleasantly surprised when Scooter Team Bravo pulls up on their way to liberate half moon beach. Ummm… Love this pic…



Eventually wayward turtles return and we’re moving on. Beer and beverages. We slam a little grocery on the Sav road. SLAM IT. No beer left in the place when we leave. NO BEER LEFT! And we’re pretty certain that we didn’t get enough… The shortage causes confusion and discussion and it takes a loooonnnnggggg time to get everyone through the single register. But it does happen… Eventually.


Thank you, driver, for getting me here (Too much, the Magic Bus)
You'll be an inspector, have no fear (Too much, the Magic Bus)


We’ve purchased all the cold beer they had and all the warm beer they had but there is no ice. We need ice. Drunkards coolers aren’t going to cut it for the whole day! So another stop at the gas station for ice. Suddenly Chicken is there with another bus. We’re switching buses? OK… Chicken is stylin’, he’s got on a new, pressed chillin’ shirt and he looks great. HUGE smile on his face.



Chicken oversees the bus switch and cooler management and after what would be a much longer time than you would expect any of this to take we all amble back onto the newly christened Magic Bus Too. By this point Becca has called it and it’s in heavy rotation – We are herding turtles today. Content, happy, supremely satisfied turtles. YS here we come…

I don't want to cause no fuss (Too much, the Magic Bus)
But can I buy your Magic Bus? (Too much, the Magic Bus)
Yessssssssssssss!

[spottycatz]

Wonderful stuff, all on board the Magic Bus, waiting ..... !