My second day begins on June 12, which is Thursday.

I awoke early in the morning, ready to get my day started. I checked my phone and it was 5:30am, I put on my workout clothes, running shoes and walked for almost an hour, then turned around. By the time I was finished it was nearing 7am. No one was out but a few people cleaning up the streets and a few buses shuttling employees to work.

I knew today would be beach day, so I decided on a swimsuit with a simple cover-up. As I looked in the mirror, I knew I would get some attention. One thing about Jamaicans is that they arent afraid to compliment. I got comments from men and women on my hair and how beautiful I was. I don't get that here in the US, so such compliments made me more confident about myself.

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I met up with a good friend, had security walk us across the street. I never noticed there was a waterfall outside of Times Square and I posed infront of it.
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We were in search of breakfast, but it was soooo early in the morning nothing was opened as of yet. We saw a place across the street that caught our eye and it was opened. We asked what he had, he said acke&saltfish and goat. I felt that was too heavy, so we kept on walking into town.
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Decided to catch a taxi into town and see what was open. Up a lane near the ice cream parlor, multiple fruit/vegatable vendors were already set up for the day. Went into a small cookshop, ordered some chocolate tea and an egg sandwich..$300J. It was soo good!

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at the cookshop, having breakfast.
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We sat in the cookshop for awhile, just catching up and watching some dancehall videos. It was nearing 9am, more and more people were coming out. Chatted with a few fruit vendors and decided on a slice of watermelon...it was so sweet!
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Suddenly, a smell so good hit me. Whatever it was I had to have it!! It was coming from Juici Patties...of course! Went in and ordered 2 vegetable patties and bottle wata.
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