Thanks very much to you both for sharing your wonderful 1st Anniversary with us. I recognized Nikki presenting the anniversary cake to you both - she is such a nice girl. Beautiful people sharing the love!
Thanks very much to you both for sharing your wonderful 1st Anniversary with us. I recognized Nikki presenting the anniversary cake to you both - she is such a nice girl. Beautiful people sharing the love!
Thanks everyone.....sorry for the brief hiatus.....had some Halloween partying to do! LOL
Tom H, it was really great meeting you too and hanging out, we had a great time and definitely look forward to seeing you all again!
Clarity! That is awesome, you will love Chicken, he will take good care of you. I sent him a message and he already wrote back that he had all of your information and was ready to meet you all and take you to Negril, so that is wonderful! I am so excited to hear all about your trip.....oooooh and it is soon!
Ok, so stay tuned....Day 6 is coming right up!
DAY SIX (October 11, 2011):
So I woke up this morning to the sounds of the waves crashing against the cliffs (NOT RAIN) and a smile on my face. Raul and I have been married a whole year....where does the time go. Well no time to sit and ponder it all really, we must get up and meet Rye for day two of our photo shoot! Fun!
So we get up and Rye comes and picks us up at Catcha and we are off. Our first stop was Margaritaville. We took some pictures on the funky bus and all around the beach and the property. Lots of bright colors and fun pics there. After that we headed to Boardwalk Village, which really is a nice and cute little place, also lots of bright colors. They had a pushcart and we took some pictures there with that. Then we headed up the beach a little and took some pictures. We had wanted to take pictures on the beach the day after our wedding last year but the storm had done lots of damage and the beach wasnt looking so great so that is why we went out to the beach on this shoot. After we took some pictures we headed back up to the cliffs, but first we made a stop at RockHouse. You see Rockhouse was the the place I laid eyes on back in 1999 (first trip) and it was the location I fell in love with. It was then that I had said "One day I will get married there" And Rockhouse was the place I had always told everyone about. We used to hang at the Pickled Parrot and I thought that the RockHouse was the most beautiful place I had ever seen. Well over the years it has gotten pretty big, and popular and now they only do about 10-15 weddings a year and they book fast and they are EXPENSIVE....so I kind of gave up on that dream a while back, but never fear, from the moment I had found Catcha, I had a new love and I was fine with that. But I did always wish I could go there and perhaps take pictures on property for my wedding, especially on the bridge! (I have so many photos of this place over the years lol). Anyways that also didnt work out last year but both Rye and Raul remembered that I wanted to do that so we stopped to see if they would let us.....and they did.....so we had a fun mini photo shoot at Rockhouse! And it was beautiful!
After our photo shoot we headed back to Catcha and we said goodbye to Ryan. He headed back home to Kingston. Thank you for everything Rye, we love you!
Back at Catcha and we had some lunch (omg their food is so delicious....oh and their drinks too lol) and then of course a nice dip in the pool, so refreshing.
After a bit we showered and headed off to 3 Dives to meet up with Rob for the Tuesday sunset webcast.
We rode our scooters down and Rob and also Tom H were already there and set up. We greeted them sat down and turned on the laptop. I have to say, it is soooooooooooooooooooo much better being there in person....duh! lol
We had a nice time and I got to wave and say hi to many of you while on the chat (or Raul did for me lol).
Then not long after Mr Twister and his lovely wife showed up, they had just gotten into town that day. We had a nice visit with everyone, got some more jerk chicken and called it a night!
Fun times!
Tomorrow, Day 7 and the One Love Bus! Yay!
Photo Shoot at Margaritaville
(all but last 2 photos are by Ryan Lue-Clarke)
Boardwalk Village
The Beach
RockHouse Hotel
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RockHouse Hotel (so beautiful here)
(all but last 3 photos are by Ryan Lue-Clarke)
Back home to Catcha, ahhhhhh the view
And off to the sunset webcast at 3 Dives
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DAY SEVEN (October 12, 2011):
Up and at em! We get up and head out to breakfast, oh what a gorgeous day! We ate breakfast almost every day at Catcha. Normally we don't eat much where we are staying as we like to get a good mix and also because there are just too many great places to eat in Negril and we want to sample as much as we can. But on this trip I just can't help it because a) I just never want to leave Catcha and b) everything they make is so good and c) its just easy to get up, grab mulitple cups of free blue mountain coffee, order up something, open up the laptop and get on the free wifi and just ahhhhh take in the view and everything. I never want to leave this place!
So this morning I ordered the "Jumbo Johnny Cakes" OMG are these good! You can order any filling you want, I think this morning I just got egg and cheese...mmm good. Took my rum cream to the table and enjoyed several cups of blue mountain deliciousness! We enjoyed such a nice breakfast and such a beautiful view. As we were enjoying this view we got a few visitors from the property next door. Yep, I heard some "ruckus" and looked over to see 3 mischievous and full of life (and of course cute as anything) puppies playing around Libra. I recognized them immediately to be 3 of the (6 I think) puppies that Sugar and Tensing had a couple of months ago, boy have they gotten big quickly. Sugar and Tensing are the two resident Rhodesian Ridgebacks that live at Tensing Pen. They are so cute these puppies. I watched them run, and bark and I went to visit them and got tons of puppy kisses. They stayed for a bit until their owners came to find them and take them back......lol
This morning the group staying at Gemini I and Gemini II were going out with Famous Vincent and they were all chatting about it at breakfast. And with that queue, their ride arrives on time....what service. We wish them a fun day and watch as they board and head off.
So with that, Raul and I decide to do a little snorkeling. We knew we were heading out on the One Love Bus Bar Crawl that day and Rob was going to be picking us up around 2pm so we decided to just stay around home base that day and enjoy Catcha (not hard to do).
So we took our books, ipods, suntan lotion, sunglasses, snorkel gear and towels and headed to one of the little nooks all throughout Catcha to settle in for the day. Ah, found one, yep this will do. So after chilling in our space for a while we geared up and jumped in the ocean for a nice little snorkeling. Beautiful. We swam out a bit and were then looking over at Tensing Pen.....such a beautiful place. We stayed there last year on our honeymoon. Its nice to see the bridge is back. I had wanted to jump from that bridge so bad but when we got there last year it had washed out from the storm and they were still trying to rebuild it when we left. This place really is beautiful. I know we will be back there again some day....but for now, Catcha is my home, my heaven on earth. Gosh I love this place....have I said that already?
So we had a great time in the water and out just relaxing, reading, talking....daydreaming!
Now its time to get ready so we shower up and enjoy a nice little walk around the property. I went to visit Ben and Mauvette at the office for a bit and then Rob met us at the bar for a drink before we head off for the bar crawl. I ordered up a drink that I had many times that week.....Kevin made it for me and all I can remember calling it was "That Mango thing" boy are those good! Then we were off, and heading down to the Corner Bar for the first stop on the bus crawl. It was me, Rob, Tom H and Raul.
We started at the corner bar and there we met the rest of the cast that would join us, well everyone but Lisa, she met up with us a little later. Mr and Mrs Twister joined us and there was about 4 or 5 other folks that joined the bus, though they are not boardies....but perhaps they will be since we did try to sell them on it! LOL Hi to you all, if you are reading! It was a nice group and we had a good time. So after the Corner Bar, we all boarded the bus and we headed up the west end. First stop was Natural Mystic. What a cute little bar, lots of nice wood work and they have lamps / overhead lights made from red stripe bottles, too cute! Next stop was MiYard and Lisa met up with us there. Had a great time. After MiYard we headed to C&D Country Western Bar, cute place, even though I NEVER do country bars and I have told everyone this is the ONLY one I have ever set foot in and WILL EVER! LOL Had a nice dirty banana there! Oh and for the ladies, clean restrooms! lol Then we headed off to No Limit Bar and at this point I think I had to order a water (seriously) hahaha, after that we just walked right across the street to Pee Wee's bar and enjoyed the view, the drinks and the company. I THINK this was the last stop on the bar crawl...honestly I can't remember (that's a good sign, right). But after the bar crawl we got dropped off at Catcha (YAY), I greeted Ben and we headed down the path to Ivan's (of course). We had invited Rob, Lisa and Mr and Mrs Twister back to our place for dinner at Ivan's. So we went down and got us all a table and we had a fabulous dinner! After dinner we all headed over to Eddie's De Bar to enjoy the rest of the evening and some gasoline.....oops I mean rum punch! LOL
What a great day and night we all had. I had the best time today, at Catcha, on the bar crawl, enjoying a lovely dinner with some new friends and then discussing life, and all sorts of other topics with Rob and Lisa late into the night while sipping on some gasoline.....how could life get any better, right?
Tomorrow, Day 8....and my Birthday!
Enjoying Breakfast and my new dragonfly sunglasses that my sweet hubby gave me
Mmmmmmm Johnny Cakes and Coffee
Morning Visitors
"Curb" Service! (Clarity, if you are interested in going out with Vincent, he drives by everyday and usually waves to anyone he sees, so you can just wave him down and tell him when you want to go and he will surely be right on time to pick you up)
Snorkel Time!
Tensing Pen from the water
Catcha from the water
Ben, the Catcha mascot / guarddog chilling in his usual spot at the office
My hubby, chilling in his usual spot, the hammock on our porch at Sagi!
The One Love Bus Bar Crawl
(I have an obsession with funny or unusual signs...this one was at the Corner Bar, made me laugh)
The bus
Natural Mystic Bar
MiYard and Rob and Lisa (cute photo, you two!)
C&D Country Western Bar
No Limit Bar
The One Love Bus
Pee Wee's Bar
Views of the Castle from Pee Wee's
Back home, have to stop and greet Bennie boy
This way to Ivan's
Great report for sure..
When we were in Natural Mystic there was this cute little girl that wantednothing more than to take a picture of you, with you or you take one of her. She woudl take the foto and then immediatley want to see it. She was so cute. This was one of the best days I had in JA since we've been going. I think hanging with Rob and Lisa till the late late was so much fun. The rum punch was awesome (and by awesome I mean good enough for fueling my scooter). Which is why I switched to Red Stripe light (Lisa got me on them). I think with the exception of the first year we went together which was New years time this was the latest we've been out in JA.
R
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Such Awesome pictures! I can't stop looking at all of them! Rye has great talent! The colors in his photography are so vibrant. I also like the picture at the 3 Dives webcast. I always wondered what it looked like from the other side!
Enjoyed chatting with you at the webcast (or should I say Raul - LOL - Was cracking when I saw you chasing him away from the computer) It was so fun to see and hear you guys having a great time. I can't wait to go to 3 Dives and try their jerk chicken for the first time!
Thanks for the tip on Famous Vincent! I'm going to keep my eye out for him once we reach Catcha. I'm hoping we can go on a snorkeling trip with him this time around.
The one love shuttle crawl sounds like a lot of fun!.... and Those puppies... too cute!!
Hey, How was your halloween weekend? Did you and Raul dress up?
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