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

wow I am back-logged with catching up on adventures. This is awesome kept me up late on a Saturday night. Love our Negril tale spinners and can't wait to return soon and come back with stories to tell. Keep going Guirigay--and looking forward to photos Sweetie Pie.

I hope you are only taking your sweet azz time because you are so busy playing "yes boy" to our lovely sweetie pie, while she recovers from her recent injury. ;) lol

LMAO.....Amen Tizzy!

I am tending to our wounded heroine. I'm on the text for Sunday but hoping Sweetie can get some pics up for Saturday before I move on. I may have to take things in my own hands on the photo front, though, if she doesn't manage to post soon... :)

LOL, I just thought you were waiting for me to catch up to you so you could remember what happened next!
Hahahahahaha

NIce. Why do you think i haven't even bothered starting one.....

I've vaguely pieced Sunday together, there are some blind spots... I may add post Marley revisions... :D

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NIce. Why do you think i haven't even bothered starting one.....

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Oh yeah......I KNEW that was what you were doing! LOL
Smart....very smart!


Daisy and Markus will win though.....I don't think they have even landed yet in theirs! Hahahahaha

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Oh yeah......I KNEW that was what you were doing! LOL
Smart....very smart!


Daisy and Markus will win though.....I don't think they have even landed yet in theirs! Hahahahaha

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Hahaha.....you guys are just FAB!

Whhhooooo are YOU callin Fab....you da queen of it bby!!!!

y'all are cracking me up - with all the inside jokes - makes me know you had a great time!

I agree with Tizzy!!!!!

But then again, I love all of you crazy people!

Seveen.....have we convinced you yet to book for next April?!?!?!?! :)

Some pic's from Saturday, I don't have all of them, maybe SOMEDAY Sweetie Pie will add a few... :) -


The bar where we had our Rum and Ting and got the Stones had Happy Ice!
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Happy crew, Hella crew!! I'm talking some serious slop mouth to Mrs. Bigga...
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Yeah Baby!!
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Sweetie Pie is disappointed with the focus but I love this shot.
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Love that shot in front of Biggas with Chicken and Ricky....

First sunset in Negril, side of the road at Long Bay Beach Park.
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I meet the troublemakers...
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Beachgirl is beautiful!
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Marley is GLOWING! Love your face girl!!
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Booger and Pooper soaking up the Luciano effect.
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Markus has a plan, it involves getting as high as possible, even standing on the table if necessary. How high can you get up there Markus?
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One of my favorite pictures of the whole trip, cropped for you protection...
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The man!! What a show!!
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Oh Guirigay.......I LOVED that one of Markus and Daisy too......it makes my heart melt every time I see it!

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I have a similar one of you and Sweetie Pie that has the same effect....it will appear somewhere around day 4 ;)

Guirigay, I love that shot, too!
And, Miss Marley, you look like a teenager standing there in that photo with the crew! :-)

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Some pic's from Saturday, I don't have all of them, maybe SOMEDAY Sweetie Pie will add a few... :) -


The bar where we had our Rum and Ting and got the Stones had Happy Ice!
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Happy crew, Hella crew!! I'm talking some serious slop mouth to Mrs. Bigga...
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Yeah Baby!!
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Sweetie Pie is disappointed with the focus but I love this shot.
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Eden......I think I love you.....nope...I am sure I do ;)

Oh, and Guirigay, you look a lot like one of my former professors. You have that teacher look I guess, ha! :-)

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Oh, and Guirigay, you look a lot like one of my former professors. You have that teacher look I guess, ha! :-)

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One could only hope that all of their professors are like Guirigay.

Who has hijacked Boogers account!! :) Thanks, dude...

Thanks Eden! You look very chic for a couple of toddlers in tow on the beach. My kids hit the sand from the beginning, I know it ain't easy. To do it with style? Props!

LOL!

But yes, I agree with Booger!

Why thanks, Guirigay! That's very sweet of you to say, but I'm really not that chic, haha, it's just one of those simple long sundresses from Targay, I think! Ha! :-)

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Who has hijacked Boogers account!! :) Thanks, dude...

Thanks Eden! You look very chic for a couple of toddlers in tow on the beach. My kids hit the sand from the beginning, I know it ain't easy. To do it with style? Props!

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I am really enjoying tagging along vicariously on ya'lls adventures through your posts, makes me wish my time to get there myself would hurry up, lol! But thanks so much for all the posts and pics, it sounds like there were some incredible times and amazing friendships being made. :)

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I am really enjoying tagging along vicariously on ya'lls adventures through your posts, makes me wish my time to get there myself would hurry up, lol! But thanks so much for all the posts and pics, it sounds like there were some incredible times and amazing friendships being made. :)

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It was awesome. Some of us are already planning another trip end of April beginning of May next year. Sign up!

Nice shots!! Happy Ice, Happy Bordies!!

I love tagging along with all these reports together! Thank you all for the entertainment, lol!

Still don't have the photo thing completely sorted out. Sweetie Pie has been injured and it's thrown a little monkey wrench in the works. I've rustled up a few pics to go with the Sunday morning story. Sweetie Pie is trying to revive the Kodak HD camera as it has pics from the Sunday SeaSplash Shindig and the flop videos. Hope to have that up soon...

Sunday

When our eyes open in the morning it is well past sunrise. Regular schedules will be pretty well trashed this reach, Sweetie Pie has seen the long side of midnight our first evening out after a long travel day. This bodes well for me. A quick shower –we’re very conscious of water and utility usage in this environment – and we’re headed down to West End Road for some breakfast and a trip to Hi-Lo for some supplies.

We head to Canoe for the eats. We knew it would be an easy walk from our crib, one of the big attractions to the place. This area was our stomping ground last reach but we never stopped into Canoe. It ended up being our most visited restaurant this reach. Great location, great staff, great food. Oh, and we don’t get into it this morning, but the DRINKS! Watch out!

We sit out on the deck to start, get our coffee (French Press!!!) ordered and some callaloo omelettes. Monique, one of the best and cutest servers in Negril, comes back to sadly inform us that they don’t have any callaloo this morning. Dang, have to settle for one of the other 10 delicious things on the menu. We have the place completely to ourselves so we get up and wander a little. I have seen many pictures of the custom lounge seating inside. Now I know why. It is one of the greatest chill spots in the world. This morning we snuggle up in the roadside corner so we have a view out our left to the German Bar and Mary’s Bay and straight ahead to the blue, blue Caribbean. We get to look at our old spot, the end of the pier at German Bar, from a new spot we’ll now never forget. It's funny because last reach we hung on the pier most mornings and looked at Canoe, this reach we'll hang at Canoe most every day looking at the pier but we never made it to German Bar. We order up more coffee and have the food delivered to the coffee table. Perfect. We’re gonna get a lot of Canoe this week!

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After a truly leisurely Sunday morning breakfast we head down the road to town. It feels a little surreal to be back on this stretch of road so soon. So familiar, all the little check yourself spots, The rooty spot along side the road where you have to pick your steps carefully, the Negril school, Llantrissant, The church at dead mans corner, the jump and jive around that crazy corner and the view of the sea front and downtown as you come around it, going around back to get to the “front” of the shopping center. We’re back! Holy Crap! WE’RE BACK!! And it’s the same, only different, but the different feels familiar.

We grab some basics at Hi-Lo, coffee, half and half, fruit and Banana Rum Cream. Shee-it!! Banana Rum Cream!! We head back up around dead mans and a lady is coming down the hill on the wall side. “I hate that side of the road there,” I say,” It always scares me.” “Scares me too!” she says with a smile, “ I ALWAYS hug this wall!”

Back at the crib we have a nice conversation with the landlord. He really puts us at ease. A few classic Jamaican compliments thrown in. We head up to the roof to get the view in daylight. It is nearly as beautiful as Sweetie Pie and I snap a couple of pics as evidence.

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On the way down she snaps a shot of me in the yard.

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We chill on the porch for a while enjoying the banana rum cream. I check out the view from the left hand side of the porch, it’s beautiful. We’re very happy. It’s after noon now and we start to think about heading up to SeaStar. I ask the landlord if he has a driver he would recommend, we’d like to have someone regular this week and it seems smart for it to be someone our landlord trusts to be stopping at his yard. He says yes and starts to make some phone calls. No one is available until his fifth or sixth call. In retrospect I feel like I should have sensed some sketchiness at this point but I didn’t. Instead, I was fascinated observing the competition and occasional interdependency of competing Negril tourism service networks. In less than a day I had connections to four separate ones from past and current reaches.

Our driver shows up quickly, he lived just across the lane. Up we head to Seastar and we get checked in. We are in 16, way in the back with a great verandah. There is a view of Francine’s nursery and some huge bougainvillea in the yard. We enjoy the room a little and head back down to the bar. We run into Gerry and Suzie Q who are getting ready to go for a scooter ride. Gerry and Suzie Q on the scooter would be a constantly recurring encounter this reach. We are talking some serious mobility here, these cats GOT AROUND. Of course, all you have to do is read Gerry’s trip report to realize this but I’m gonna tell you right now – Gerry left stuff out! He is a man in motion, constantly in search of new experience. This passion for new experience, and perhaps one other thing beyond our shared LOVE of Negril, is the core of the bond I share with Gerry. Much respect on this front, mi friend. Get it all, Gerry, get every last bit of it!

Drinks at the bar get us into the early afternoon. We told everyone last night we wouldn’t shake the tree too early. We give Marley a call. I have the beginning of a hate-HATE relationship with my Digicel coral phone. It has a user interface and particularly a POS predictive text entry system that makes trying to add someone’s name to a phone number an exercise in anger management. It was Monday I think before I got Marley’s name in and then I gave up trying to get anyone elses. I frequently called three or four people before I finally got the person I was looking for.

Marley says they are going over to SeaSplash for a webcast and party. Brasi is going to be there! Didn't expect to see him until tomorrow. We’re in. I DO NOT REMEMBER how the heck we get to SeaSplash but I think we went with a group of people and I think we started by turning left. We’re gonna meet a bunch of boardies…

We probly picked yall up on the way....we were on the bus

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No worries! I will cover that in my report, lol :)

But Marley, was I right?? I think I'm right! LOL

Haha! you guys are too funny with all the double fact checks! Love it! So nice to read about your adventures from different perspectives. Sweetie pie, that's a great shot of you on the roof :)

You are half right Tizzy.....when they called me I told them to come down to Catcha and get a drink at the bar while everyone was getting ready. Then Pelle (sp?) picked us all up in the Chicken bus at Catcha and took us all down to Seasplash for the webcast

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You are half right Tizzy.....when they called me I told them to come down to Catcha and get a drink at the bar while everyone was getting ready. Then Pelle (sp?) picked us all up in the Chicken bus at Catcha and took us all down to Seasplash for the webcast

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I can NEVER prove it now but I had already pieced this together as I was thinking about my introduction to Sweetness. :)

YES!!!!! That is when we ALL met her actually!

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Eden......I think I love you.....nope...I am sure I do ;)

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Hahaha!! Marley, you are so adorable! I really hope you and Ninja will be back there in Dec. Anthony and I would love to meet you both ! :)