New Years Eve. in Negril, as I remember it.

So this was my second New Year in Negril, and the plan Seastar Inn foor the buffet, and Luciano show! I took it easy on the drinks this day as to pace myself into the night. So we decide we will head there early for happy hour and since I had a wife and two kids tagging along it made sense to get there before the traffic and crazyness starts. As a side not my 9 year old daughter has this problem when we travel to Jamaica, she cant stay awake past 8:00 to save her life, but she is up at 6:30 am every morning and starving for breakfast by 7! So we tried to keep her up later the night before so she could stay awake until midnight, it did not work she only made it to 10. Anyway we get to Seastar and get a table with Tawnee and Randy, hey its there anniversary too! ( by the way we were at the wedding the new year before). Attachment 8128

I dont have too many pictures espeacially when I get to the good parts!

Geesh I never realized how much Tawnee and Randy were enjoying my company.lol So I started with a couple dirty filthy bananas and the wife actually had a couple pina colladas (with rum!) So the buffet was great as usual and the Redstripe was flowing, thge kids found some others there age and wererunning around for a while ,sometimes wife has some good ideas as you can see in the picture.

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As you can see they were all getting tired, but I was fine still pounding Redstripes, anyway the drummers were pounding away and next thing you know its time for Luciano to take the stage (see video under rastagal thread)

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The hockey game was on too! Anyway I just realized out of three cameras not on picture of Luciano, oh well I got some a few weeks back when i saw him at the Jungle. Hey any body ever had corn on the cob in Negril?

So know its getting later I would guess around 11:30 or some where around there and Julia is sleeping across two chairs, Jake is leaning on the table with toothpicks holding his eyes open and wife is looking tired too. So at this point I get a brainstorm! "hey you want me to get you guys a taxi to take you back and I can stay for the rest of the show" I get the whatever answer, and in my world thats the same as yes, sometimes no is yes too if its something I really want to do! Any way now I am going to have to find a taxi on new years eve, so I go out the gates and take a look around, anyone who has been to Seastar before knows that there is no line of taxi,s out there in the middle of the night! So I pull out my phone and try a few numbers,no luck! Now my beer is empty too! Ok so got to take care of that first! So hurry over to the bar for a refill and decide to take another look out front!

As I am starting to loose hope a white car is rolling up! I lean around to take a look and "yes there is a REDPLATE!" so this guy stops and as he is opening the door, I right there"hey you a taxi mon!" Of course I already knew the answer but am getting excited as there will soon be a poolguy on the loose in Negril on new years eve!
Yamon I am a taxi, ok so how much to drive my family back to Fun Holidy? he gave me a really reasoable price as he hands me one of those heavy duty laminated business cards you only get from taxi drivers in Jamaica!
So as he is telling me how he is the safest driver on the road, yeah, yeah, I think I ran back in the gate to round up the troops and load them in the taxi! Anyway I hand the guy a $20 us and tell him make sure they get back safe. He assures me again that he is the safest guy on the road!

Now you can probably see where this is going, anyway remember I was asking about the corn on the cob thing?
There were other people with corn on the cob including some of the Seastar staff, and i wanted one!
As tha taxi pulls away I see this guy across the road with one of those big soup potrs you see outside the Jungle and places like that.
So I ask hey you have the corn?
"yeahmon I have corn and soup"
Ok I want a corn so this guy had the corn staying hot in the pot of soup, cool idea, now the corn was kinda like what we call field corn, you know kinda tough, but it tasted good from soaking in the soup. Attachment 8176Attachment 8177 Before and after!

As i ate the corn and listened to Luciano in the background, I am thinkin where next?!!! and how am i gettin there? Any way there was a quite a few boardies there, some i remember talking to and maybe some I dont.lol RockRobster tells me his wife is still mad as Ras Walleye ate all the cupcakes on the buffet, I didnt get one either! So I get up to the bar and get a Redstripe and time to settle up my tab!!! I always try to only carry as much cash as i need for the night, but I brought a little extra as it was new years eve anyway the tip thing always gives me a hard time, but not sure you should ask "how much is a good tip? to the bar staff.lol any way I just kept handing over money until I got the smile that tells you, your not always a cheap ass!

I have no idea what time it is now and some of the events as I was leaving Seastar were refreshed to my memory from some of the witnesses. lol Any way I was thinking of calling the taxi guy with the HD laminated business card, when as I headed to the gate the Seastar shuttle was loaded with passengers except one empty seat! Right next to Ras Walleye, now if he was smart he would have moved over to take two seats, sorry no room for you! Any way I yell in the door dont leave I gotta take a leak and I,ll be right back! This part I think I blocked from my memory intentionally, but thanks to RR he refreshed it. There was some girl getting on a scooter leaving Seastar at the same Time, and she was hot! well after 20 plus drinks anyway (if she is a boardie who reads this ,you may really be hot but I dont remember!lol) Ok so after a really good attempt at getting on the scooter, she made a comment about not remembering tommorrow or something, Rock Robster and Ras Walleye have more details on this. she told me get a pen and I will give you my number, yeah, yeah whatever anyway the load of people on the bus espeacially one lady is loosing her patience with me so I get in and shutup! Yeah right no I get in leaning on Ras walleye and continue in my best loud drunk voice to annoy the lady in the back and maybe others, maybe a few were amused but not the "driver please turn up the music "lady who by the way said it more than once! lmao. I knew she was annoyed by me but as people that know me I was enjoying seeing how annoying I could get. {an apology to Ras Walleye sorry for leaning on you all the way to Canoe, partly the fault of the seats that are not big enogh and partly as you were helping keep me stable over the potholes"

LOL!!!!!.......Even No, means Yes sometimes. How do You get away w/ this crap...lol!

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Not sure what this picture is of but its the last one from my phone, before loading the shuttle. Any way as we head down the westend road, me never shutting up and still annoying the lady in the back. Rock Robster and others seemed a little concerned about where I was going and my safety. Anyway we get by Canoe and i say let me out here!!! Dam they were just locking up the joint, oh well so I start walking toward town, first stop Sunset After Dark was open and there were a few people around, so I had a drink with Patrick and his friend cathy who I met when i was there in nov. "so whats goin on now i ask " looking for the next stop? Anyway I bought some peanuts from a rasta and wandered out the gate towards the corner bar. On the way up they setting up those towers of speaker in the empty lot next to the corner bar, so I guess there was a street party there, any way now i am walking drinking vodka Ting trying to eat peanuts all at the same time, surprised I didnt take a fall, as I was barely paying attention to any thing except getting those dam little peanuts outa the shell, pretty sure I ate some shell with the nuts anyway. (vodka Ting oh yeah for the beer drinkers out there, you know when you know you had too many and the beer just isnt tasting good any more so you switch? Thats the time when you are suppose to know not to drink any more! Ok So as I get close to the Corner bar the crowd gets ATI thick, so if vyou never been to ATI the beach road is just packed with tonnes of people, and thats how the road was now. With one dumb tourist walking through just checkin out the scenery and eating peanuts and drinking vodka Ting! It was pretty cool there was a lot of bodies on the road! Any way So now I am past it getting up to the roundabout and have to make a decision? OK so Rooftop, or Beachpark,or Alfred,s, or Jungle? Easy decision my drink is empty and the rooftop is the closest!

Great report Poolguy. Keep it coming.

Where was I, oh yeah headed to the Rooftop, it was kinda quiet out front, but went in anyway, followed a few locals up the stairs. It was not really busy but full. First stop the bar for a vodka Ting, I am pretty sure they are like acure for too much beer as they seemed to be sobering me up. Anyway I kinda scan the crowd to see how safe it looks, pretty melloow looking crowd, and definitely more chicks, than dudes! Dont see that often in a bar! Any way there is this bench kinda thing along the front wall there and its pretty full, except a half a seat between a couple pretty young ladies! I walk right over and squeeze in right between,lol I was kinda laughin under my breath, they musta been thinkin oh no look at this stupid tourist coming this way, no please dont sit,aww not here! Anyway, I think my first sentence was how are you fine young ladies doing tonight? Ok so the girl to my left had slid way over, so I got the hint there, but the one on the other side, responded "we are good" "can you buy me and my friend a Magnum?" I lauged and said "I would but you have to be eighteen to drink in Jamaica" They paled the how offende they were by this thing you know, so I ask them for ID they were like no mon we are 24, they actually made it look like they were looking for there ID, "never mind I,ll be right back" Yeah its new years eve and I wasnt out of money yet so what the hell, besides they were nice enough to talk to me, and I am pretty sure they were not working.lol So I come back with the two Magnums and before you know it how about can we get a cigarette,"I dont smoke ,you know its bad for youy dont you?" Anyway its new years and off to the bar I go"two cigarettes please" So I bring the cigarettes back and after some more conversation, mostly I was kinda on them about you seem like nice girls, what are you doin here this late? Maybe father instincts,lmao. Now there is some young dudes startin to gather round, I am not dumb buyin drinks and smokes will attract a crowd pretty quick at these kinda places, so however not smart to go to the Rooftop by myself at 2 or 3 am, I am pretty good at knowing when its time to leave, and that was now,so "hey I got to take a leak, I will be right back" Yeah right, I did go relieve myself, took a real close look at the only girl spinning on the brass pole,(hey while i was there might as well get a close look) and down the stairs I went. I didnt want to use up the rest of my money buyin drinks for the rest of the Rooftop. Back on the street! Where next, I guessin its got to be like between late 2 something and early 3 something by now! Over the Negril river bridge I go, does anybody else hate walking over that bridge, its bad enough in the aday but at night or early am in this case? I always think someone is going to push me over that short railing along the side walk! Oh what about this too? when walking in Negril are you suppose to walk on the right or the left?you know like even here in North America it really bothers me there isnt a rule for that, it should follow the driving, you dont just drive on the other side of the road when ever you fell like it, since I walk alot I think about this alot,espeacially every time I cross that brdge, I have noticed the tendancy is to walk on the other side but not every one follows the rules!!! Sorry where was i? ok so am a proaching the beach park kinda wander up a bit, but doesnt look too busy, (one of the bartenders st Fun Holiday told me it was a good choice not to go in, he said it was boring anyway)

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Originally Posted by Kimbobwee

LOL!!!!!.......Even No, means Yes sometimes. How do You get away w/ this crap...lol!

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LOL....Kimbo, Because you know she is really thinking..."Man am I glad he's not coming home with us!".....hahaha

Great report PG, can't image you annoying anyone on a bus after umpteen Redstripes.... :) and your descriptive version of walking the road drinking Vodka and trying to eat peanuts...man, I sure can picture that!

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OK so beach park is out so continue my walk up the beach road up to Alfred,s have to decide again here or Jungle? I just never stopped walking, not sure why but I end up across the road and for some reason I feel its time for some road chicken! Half please! I am the Blue Dandy guy I am pretty sure I got chicken here before, any way this lady comes over from her cooler to the right and "cold Redstripe mon, cigarettes?" "no thanks" anyway she gets kinda angry looking, and I am paying for my chicken with my last crumpled up five hundred dollar bill! I didnt realize this was the end of my money until that moment! So I dig in all my pockets and come up with a couple more hundreds,so I ask the chicken guy hey can I get a Cranberrywata too with this? he says yeamon so waves to the lady to the left with the cooler, yeamon he needs a cranberrywata, ok so now the cooler lady on the right, the angry one catch wind of this and she is patoi,ing loud now about how she was there first,any way I gave the money to the chicken guy, and said heymon you figure it out, put my hands up and walked away with half a jerk chicken and a cranberry water, but the worst of it all its only like 4:30 am and what! I am outa money, what was I thinkin buyin cigarettes and Magnums at the Rooftop!!! Well at least I didnt have much farther to walk back to Fun Holiday, but the worst part, the Jungle was still hopin looked packed, and I talked to some one that was there and said it was packed and really good!!! When I got back to the room I thought about sneakin in for more money and back across the road to the Jungle, but after the early am chicken dinner I was getting tired anyway, Must have been I didnt take my usual late night blurry picture of the road chicken.lol (The next day[very hung over!] I remembered I had a stash of $150 US I totally forgot about that my motherin law gave me for christmas!!! Dam it coulda been Jungle money!

So as the title states what I remember of it, for some reason the part when leaving Seastar on the shuttle until getting to Canoe was notas clear, I remember the rest pretty clear like I said the vdka Ting seemed to counteract the beer!lol

Oh man! That was great! You had me cracking up over here. I can totally picture the whole scene..I remember driving through that crowd at the roundabout too! Not much else..but I remember that!!! lol. Sounds like you had yourself an adventorous night anyway...imagine if you had made it to the Jungle! Watch out!

Enjoyed your report. LOL!

PG - Thanks for waving the ''Canadian Party till you drop'' Flag for all your Countrymen & women. We needed a contender to give Gerry G & Brasi some competition in the out till almost Dawn club. What may have seemed annoying to 1 lady on the Cliff Bus might have been very entertaining for a lot more people out there..!Wear that Maple Leaf & hang over with pride , Mon.

I did make it to the Jungle and to Alfred,s one time each until around 2:oo am or so, not bad for a one week family trip.

Great Job Poolguy,sounds like our kind of a fun New Year,we may just be there for the next New Year!!!

Sounds like a lot of boardies are thinkin of doin a New Years trip next year!

That would be me too!!!!!!

:D.... Im working on Kopper.......we will see how good I am...:eek:

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Originally Posted by poolguywindsor

Sounds like a lot of boardies are thinkin of doin a New Years trip next year!

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You and others have me seriously thinking about it. It's a good time for work as well so I think I'll use my trip in April to scout out a good place to stay, thinking Seastar or Catcha Gardens. No way I'm paying the Winter rates to stay and a place on the water.

That is the worst part it, is one of the most expensive times to go, and some places fill up a year in advance.

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I was waiting for RockRobster to add his two cents!

Cool report Poolguy, cool report.