Hettie & Chad December 2011 Trip Report

It's Christmas morning, time to sleep in for once! Slept until 7:30 anyway...not exactly late. My handsome husband made corned beef hash for breakfast.
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After breakfast we wandered over to the great house to use the WiFi for some reason or another. We spent some time talking to the staff and owner, just enjoying Christmas morning with the Citronella community. We spent most of the day after that just hanging around the A-Frame, did some yoga, swimming & sunning, had some rum drinks (I like Appleton V/X with a splash of ting, club soda, and a lime).
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To be cont...more photos.

What a lovely trip report!

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After awhile we decided to venture out so that we could find some curry goat for our traditional Christmas meal. Chad ran out to the store first, saw that Sips 'N Bites was closed, so we decided to try Cosmo's, also closed. We were starving so we went to Sun Beach and ate escoveitch AGAIN and had a papaya daiquiri. We were glad to get to say bye to Dennis and the Sun Beach staff since we were leaving the next day. We also went by Canoe for one last rum punch and to say bye to Kirby and Georgia. The sunset was looking awesome, so we scurried up to 3 Dives to catch the last bit and ordered curry goat to go. It was nice chatting with Lloydie while we waited for our food, then we headed back to Citronella for our last evening :( in Negril.

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Your pics are making these last few days before we leave....a little easier. Thank you....not only for the report but helping ease my Negril infested mind! Looking so forward to Christmas in Jamaica again. One of favorite times to visit.

Whew...I finally made it to the end of this report. It only took me, what--10 months? Oh well, better late than never. Today is the start of the single-digit dance for our next reach, so I figured I better knock it out.

We spent our last morning packing, drinking coffe, having breakfast, getting showered up and ready to go. We had a nice, late-ish flight, so we didn't have to leave until 11:00 am. Returned the car, easy breezy, no lines for customs--AWESOME--then made our way in and had our last meal at Margaritaville. The only time I will visit one will be in an airport. ;)

Here are some photos, including the perfunctory sad, depressing drive back to MBJ shots.

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And I really hate seeing this sight...

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And that's all folks. Easy flight back to Charlotte and we had a long layover so got to try out the US Airways Club with the free passes they sent me for having their Mastercard. It was pretty nice, but no way would I pay for it. I thought there would be recliners or something...silly me. :rolleyes:

So, today is 9 days until our next reach, looking forward to getting away from it all, relaxing, and hoping to do some healing. It's been a really rough year and I am in desperate need of some Negril.

Hope you enjoyed reading my report and sorry if I lost some of you along the way due to my procrastination. Thank you everyone for all of your lovely comments and compliments. I'm going to read back through them all now to enjoy them again. Maybe I'll always spread the report out over almost a whole year...hmmm...gets me really close to the next reach that way!!!!

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Originally Posted by yetta

Your pics are making these last few days before we leave....a little easier. Thank you....not only for the report but helping ease my Negril infested mind! Looking so forward to Christmas in Jamaica again. One of favorite times to visit.

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Hey Yetta! Looks like we arrive the same day, maybe I'll run into ya! Have a great 9 day countdown and a wonderful reach!

Thanks Hettie for the TR! I love the pics! Maybe our paths will cross in Negril :), we leave on the 14th.

Hettie,
Super trip report, I'm glad it came up again so all could see. Can you tell me about the raft you are using in the first series of pics? Did you take it with you or was it at the round house? I'm trying to find something to take that's easy to pack and a little more reliable than the cheap plastic ones.