Shauna (marley9808) & Raul's (ralonzo29) 1st Anniversary in Jamaica *Trip Report*

[marley9808]

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