Trip Report - March 2014

[jsteil]

3/23 Continued.
Got a taxi and headed back home. Wound up lying in a hammock the rest of the night with a smile from ear to ear before falling asleep.

3/24
Somehow my wife got me from the hammock into bed. I woke up around 3am asking if we still had birthday cake. Arrival day was my wifes 29th birthday, so Nicole had made a cake. Sure enough there was half a cake left. I demolished the cake and ended up eating the rest of our fruit.
Woke up around 8am ready for breakfast. Banana muffins, toast, coffee, juice, and fruit.. yum.
The pool looked good so we did that for a while before going to the beach. Upon walking to the road Nicole asked me if I remember Trevor from DeBar. Of course we remember Trevor and hear he had a new place, but didn’t know where it was located. Was told that he was having a rough time being off the main road, so we made a decision that our last meal would be at Trevor’s. We headed back to the beach and went from bar to bar making sure the newbies got to see everything they wanted and did a little shopping.
It was about 2pm, so we headed to Canoe Bar and did some snorkeling. Katelyn saw an octopus, the rest of us saw mainly fish. Canoe had very good drinks and a 2 for 1 special. We all got pretty tipsy.

3/25
Everyone realizes it is our last full day on the island. Instead of boring everyone with the same pool and beach story I will jump to dinner.
I realize that although we are right across the street from Ricks we never took Jeremy and Katelyn there. I told Trevor we would be ready at 6:30pm and he offered to pick us up. I get Jeremy and Katelyn and we head across the street. The regular guys are out front selling bracelets and Ganja. We walk right through them and into Ricks. Jeremy comments that it’s crowded. Katelyn watches two people cliff dive and takes a picture. Katelyn asks me why people don’t go to LTU and Firewater because in her eyes they are more chill. Both ask me if we can leave, so we head back across the street. We get my wife Katie and head back to the street. Trevor is right on time and he takes us to his place. If you want to know where it is? When heading north from the West End you will see Canoe Bar on your left, the next street after you pass Canoe Bar take a right. Trevor’s will be on your left. We were treated like family. Red Stripes for 3 of us and water for the wife. He didn’t have any snapper and my wife can’t eat King Fish, so we got chicken. Katelyn and Jeremy wanted lobster. The chicken, veg, rice and peas, was fantastic and huge portions. Katelyn and Jeremy’s meal consisted of two lobsters each and two lobster tails each plus veg, rice and peas. Total bill for all of us was 8500J. After relaxing Trevor took us home. We thanked him for our last dinner on the Island and told him we would be back.

3/26
First time in six days I have woken up to an alarm. Damn it we have to go back home. Breakfast seems more like a last meal. We all have the look of, yeah you guys can leave, but I’m staying. We all know we have to leave through. Kingsley pulls up and we pack the van with our stuff. We head to the airport, flight leaves on time, and we make it to Chicago on time. After not eating processed fast food for a week it’s not really appealing. Even the Dr. Pepper I once enjoyed on the flight tastes like crap. Every time we leave Jamaica my wife and I say we will continue to eat the same as when we are on the island, but always end up eating crap. We look around the airport to find the most wholesome food to eat. Settle for some overpriced fruit and water. We get to our departure gate back to Kansas City. This lady in first class heads to the plane first. She comes back out and yells at everyone saying the plane is broken and we will have to wait. We wait an hour and the plane is fixed. At this point I’m looking at the weather and thinking it’s going to be a rough flight. Plane takes off and it’s a pretty steep climb. I can hear the engines going and it sounds like beeping coming from upfront. I tell myself if I can survive the bad brownie trip I can make it through this plane ride. The plane finally settles and everything is good. It’s very windy on this flight and I’m thinking the landing is going to be worse than the takeoff. We start to descend for MCI and the weather is bad. The plane is rocking from side to side. I tell myself that the plane can handle the swaying back and forth; everyting is going to be alright. It’s raining hard. With rain I knew the plane would have to hit the runway hard to stop. Everything was good and the plane made it.

We get our luggage and my wife says something smells like pineapple rum. We wait to get home before opening our luggage and sure enough one of the bottles of rum was crushed. Either way the other 4 bottles of rum and rum cream made it just fine.

[rocknrollfarmer]

Good trip report mon', but geez, it's uncomforting {is that a word?} to hear about the plane's being broken and the awful rides! And we just watched that Denzel Washington movie the other night...FLIGHT ! Freaky.