Well......it happened

Yep....I let my PNS (Post Negril Syndrome) get the best of me...and I pushed the button!

The next reach is OFFICIALLY BOOKED! Awwwwwwwwww yeah
What can I say, I had to do it!

So Raul and I will be back in Negril...April 21-29, 2012
We will be in town for the Boardie Bash! Yay! And I hope everyone can make it out there.....We will be ordering and bringing one of those amazingly delicious rum cakes as our contribution to the party....if THAT isn't enough motivation to book and come, I don't know what is

Woo Hoo....so excited to have a new (working) countdown

And so excited that we will be here again in a little over 5 months:


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Good for you Marley. Missed you by a few weeks in October, but I will see ya at the bash in April!!

YAY!!!! Looking forward to it Pretty40!

We are going to book one night at SeaStar
We have been there before but have never stayed there and we wanted to check it out, especially with the renovations!

So what I want to know from anyone who can answer is.....
What's your favorite room and why?

Thanks in advance :)

wooo hooooo!!!!!!!! :D
That's so awesome! So happy for you guys!! Congrats on pushing the button!!!
You'll be back in Negril in only 162 days!! So exciting!!

Hopefully we'll be able to join you guys, our 10 year wedding anniversary is 4/20 and our dream is to celebrate in Negril.
We've got the "Irie Box" back up on the shelf and we're beginning to put money away again.
If we can make it *fingers crossed* , I love your idea of getting boardies together and taking an excursion with Chicken & his magic bus to Pelican Bar/YS Falls!

As for Seastar inn, we stayed in room 3# second floor, and we LOVED it. Jamar was across from us also second floor in Room 5#. We were waving at each other from our balcony's
Both had the Same style room Big spacious room, huge wooden arched ceilings, beautiful balcony w/ a hammock, lush landscape all around us. Everything was new and perfect. Most comfortable HUGE bed we ever slept in! Seriously!!
You will LOVE it!

lol......it was Clarity's post that sent you over the edge right? lol

HOW exciting.......you deservie it - you and R moving towards the JOY man - its beautiful.

Hmmm so you and Daisy gonna be there in April and the bash.....hmmmmm better get me an Irie Box going too :cool:

YES!!!! This is what I was hoping for....I am trying to entice you all to come...rum cake...excursions....whatever it takes...I will sway you

Plus I think Sweetness and Clarity will be ready to go back anyways....and after both of their trip reports...so will everyone else...so make it good ladies LOL

Daisy, yes, wouldnt a group trip on the Magic Bus just be the best? I think we had as much as 20 people comfortably in that bus one day....maybe even more! Good times! That would be so much fun!

I hope your irie box fills up fast....we were trying to pick a date where we thought the most people would be there and around your anniversary too.....let me just say...Negril is the PERFECT place for your anniversary...but like you didn't already know that!

I hope both of you lovely ladies will be there for real, that would be the BEST time!
Looking forward to it....so HAPPY to have a new countdown! Yay!

Congrats on booking your trip!!!!

Congrats to you and Shauna for booking a return trip "home".

I am just as bad. As soon as the withdrawal hits, I plan and book the next trip. I have 2 ugly bathrooms in dire need of a remodel, still lookin mighty ugly. But hey, I have made many trip to Negril which is good for the soul.

We actually are going to venture out when the withdrawal hits. Going to Amelia Island, FL in Feb for my 48th and going island hopping in the Abaco's for hubby's 60th in March. I think after that we will be in need of a Negril fix.

Yay...how exciting!!!

Man...I wanna go to a boardie bash...gonna have to start a box as well.

Clarity...4/20....did ya'll do that on purpose? Hmmm? lol

Congrats on your new countdown Marley!

Seems as though the April calendar is filling up already. :)
The boardie bash is always worth the trip, I can only remember the first two hours of the last one!!!!
I will be on best behaviour this time..................NOT!!!!!

I wanna come tooo!!! My birthday is 4/19 !! I was there last year same time at SeaStar and met Clarity & Markus at the Luciano show!!!!
Seriously if can I will try to make it happen!!!!

Thanks everyone! I am super excited...almost couldnt sleep last night I was so giddy

I mean how funny, I still have 5 months but I was so excited just for booking...I am sure you all understand!

Thanks Twister! ANy chance of a return for you and the missus?

Aud-A-Sea...I AM Shauna! LOL Amelia Island...nice that will be fun. And I know what you mean....we had a horribly hideous bathroom which I had hated since I bought the house. I mean it was BAD! And so when we got all of those lovely wedding gifts (money) we used it all on (No, not a Jamaica trip...I know, I was shocked too) but to remodel our bathroom. Let me just say, it is NOT as easy as HGTV makes it look....it took us about 4 times longer than we had planned and of course more money (but that is always the case) However, NOW THAT IT IS DONE....I am so happy we did it...but I will NEVER do it again! LOL
So if you do, good luck, hang in there and consider a next trip to Jamaica as a reward to yourselves...that might be the motivation you need LOL

Thanks Tizzy....you know you are already hooked....you know you already looked up the dates...go on...do it! do it! lol


Spottycatz...Best Behaviour???? I am not familiar with the term......
:)
And Northern Isles of Scotland???? Now you HAVE to come...Raul (the hubs) is part Scotish...I am not sure what part but I know he has a kilt and he wears it...often! LOL

This is going to be F U N

Michele! Let's make this happen!

Ok everyone....ask Santa (nicely)...we need to have a real big party...we have birthdays and anniversaries...all kinds of reasons to celebrate!
YAY

Man,
I think Sandie and I will make the trek as well. We were in Negril last week of April first of May this year and it was killer. Time to see if Catcha has room to accomodate.

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Booger! I was waiting for you to respond! This will be a blast! You and Sandie have to come.....who do I need to talk to about making this spay/neuter clinic work with our dates LOL

Let me tell you this...when I first looked this week up both Sagi and Libra were booked...in fact our first 2-3 choices I think were booked and I was really bummed
So we started looking at other places and I was just so disappointed. But I told Raul I wanted to stay at Catcha no matter what...any room will do (but you know secretly I was really sad about Sagi). It was booked except for 2 days.
So I spoke to Mauvette and Andrea and they said they would put us on the waiting list and then that very day, the week we wanted miraculously opened up for Sagi...I took it as a sign (of course) and Andrea reserved it for us immediately....and yesterday I decided...there is no real reason in waiting. So we made it official!
I sure hope you all can be there too.....I was really hoping to party it up big in Negril with all the boardies...would be so much fun!

Good idea on the waiting list. I looked and I beliveve Libra is only open for 3 days. I was thinking of starting at Seastar for the weekend and then moving over to Catcha for the rest of the week. I checked out the new rooms on my last reach and they look nice, however I really dig the rustic nature of the stand alone cottages.

So it looks like you and Raul, Marcus and Clarity(maybe), Sandie and I and who else will be rocking Catcha the last week of April? Also, is the boardie bash the last Saturday of the month?

The Boardie Bash is the last Friday of the month, so it would be April 27...at Yellow Bird if it stays the same, during the noon webcast

We are in Sagi from Sunday to Sunday (April 22-29) but we get into town on the 21st so we were thinking of staying at Seastar that night...especially because it's a Saturday...and we would be there anyways! LOL

Rum cake? I'm in. That was awesome. Thanks for sharing the last rum cake with me.

Wasn't it Tom???
I still cannot get over how incredible that rum cake was (can you tell?) LOL
Raul and I (and even Rob and Lisa) had already decided we would be getting one every single trip, regardless if we had anything to celebrate or not! LOL

You are most welcome by the way, we enjoyed meeting you and hanging out! Hope to see you as well in April!

LOL...I wish we could Shauna. We have 2-3 weeks in China in February. Not sure if I can pull something off so soon after that. You never know though ;0)

WooHoooooo Marley!!!!!! Excited for you guys. The countdown begins.

Alright, just booked our airfare! Count us officially in.

YAY Booger!!!
This is A W E S O M E !!!!!

MR Twister....I wont give up the hope! LOL

[QUOTE=marley9808;18192]YAY Booger!!!
This is A W E S O M E !!!!!

Sandie doesn't even know yet. I cannot wait to surprise her when she gets home tonight! Bet she does a little happy dance.

Booger, you rank right up there with my hubby as far as great husbands go.....that is the BEST kind of surprise


Here is how I broke the news to Raul:

Me: "Hey babe, I have some news....I am really excited about...you will either be excited too, or maybe mad at me"
Raul: "uh huh, probably mad I am sure"
Me: "Well I sort of went ahead and booked Sagi for a trip in April"
Raul: "Is that supposed to shock me?"

LOL.....of course he was happy...he first asked "Do I have a say in this" and I said....of course! What is your say babe? and he replied, "I say ....GO FOR IT!"

:):):):)

I was at that Luciano concert in April with Clarity, too, though we did not actually meet up. Rasta Stan was there that night, too, a great night .... I want have to come back to the Rock again in April, too ....

OK....I have to give a one point advantage to my husband now...he just came home and made me a Dirty Egg Nog Banana.....who knew there was such a thing? Well I do now....and I have to say, I am a fan!

YUM!

I like your pics. What hotel i=are they taken? thanks Gary

Thanks Gary..those are taken at Catcha Falling Star (aka Heaven on Earth)

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Originally Posted by marley9808

Booger, you rank right up there with my hubby as far as great husbands go.....that is the BEST kind of surprise


Here is how I broke the news to Raul:

Me: "Hey babe, I have some news....I am really excited about...you will either be excited too, or maybe mad at me"
Raul: "uh huh, probably mad I am sure"
Me: "Well I sort of went ahead and booked Sagi for a trip in April"
Raul: "Is that supposed to shock me?"

LOL.....of course he was happy...he first asked "Do I have a say in this" and I said....of course! What is your say babe? and he replied, "I say ....GO FOR IT!"

:):):):)

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I have to admit that she is great at letting me plan whatever and pretty much whenever. I love doing it and she loves the end result. On occasion she will pop off about my seat time on the computer, but she understands the end result.

I'm freaking stoked. Time to party to celebrate our planned trip. Red Stripe anyone?

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I'm freaking stoked. Time to party to celebrate our planned trip. Red Stripe anyone?

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I am not a beer drinker sadly, but I have already started the celebration over here....I will toast you with my "Dirty Egg Nog Banana" and maybe next with a rum punch or something along those lines! Ya mon!

Booger! Congratulations on pushing the button!! So awesome!
I'll take a Red stripe!
Cheers!:D
Marley - hold up that Dirty Egg nog banana for a toast (Raul sounds like a really creative bartender LOL)
Here's to all of us meeting in Negril end of April!!

Okay, granted.. right now Markus and I are not holding tickets in our hands and we have no reservations.
It's just in the dream stage
but 5 months ago our November trip was just a dream and we made it happen.
We've gotten so used to living frugal and the ritual of putting money in our Irie Box at the end of each day.
It's our 10 year wedding anniversary and there's nowhere else in the world we want to be on 4/20.
We're going to make it happen and the day we push that button we'll be screaming it from the rooftops! haha!
I'm already staking claim for the Pisces cottage for the last few days of our trip. ;)

Sweetness,Tizzy, Twister, Gerry, spottycatz, Tom - I'm so hoping we can meet you too!!

Michele - You'll never guess the couple that was sitting at the table right next to us at the Luciano concert?! Yes! Isn't that wild? I took a picture for you! I'll be posting it in my trip report!
I truly hope we can see you again!

Pisces does look like a killer little cottage. I'm still trying to figure out what room I want as Libra is tied up the most of the week. I think I might bounce around and try a few. Takes about 5 minutes to pack up and I'm sure Jackie will take care of the rest.

I am toasting!!! Cheers to all of us!
And yes, he is definitely a creative and very good bartender!

I like Pisces too, has a GREAT porch!
I like that room, and Libra, and I love the Star and Moon too, always thought it would be fun to stay in those if with a group....especially the one with the outdoor room with the shower, I think it's the Star?
But like I have said before, you can't go wrong anywhere

Yeah Booger, when originally Sagi was booked all but 2 days we were going to move around to a few different places too, we saw a lot of people do that while we were there and we figured, no worries really, plus a cool way to check out a few of the different rooms, plus you can always do the waiting list too and have them call you if Libra opens up
Yay, muscial rooms....Oh wow, can you imagine how fun Ivan's is going to be?!?!?!
This is going to be Fun!!!! Woo Hoo

Hey Clarity,
I was going to snag Pisces as Libra is only open for 3 days. But it's your anniversary, so it's yours if no one else snags it. Thinking about Gemini, but do not like the shared wall set up. Moon and Star look killer as well, but what a waste for two people. Hum........ What shall I do.

We would book Gemini Cottage again in a heartbeat if we could afford it. It's so beautiful and the shared wall wasn't an issue. Unfortunately Catcha off season doesn't start until after April 30th, so it's now both Gemini 1 & 2 are both of our price range. Pisces is the only cottage we could afford.

But please don't let that stop you from booking it. We honestly can't really stake claim for it because this anniversary trip is just in the dream stage. So Go for it!

Who knows, maybe Libra will open up last minute, you'll snag that and the only reason we'd be able to get Pisces in the end is because you were holding onto it for us. lol ;)

Regardless of where we stay, if we actually make it to Negril in April for our anniversary, we will be two very very happy people - partying with you, your wife, shauna and Raul at Ivans Bar. How amazing would that be?
So no worries! :)

Yes...that WILL be amazing!
But remember what I said....and shoot Andrea an email now before anyone gets either of your rooms
I will be calling her later today, I will tell her to expect you both to be booking soon! LOL

Awww yeah :)