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

[marley9808]

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