Sorry for being M.I.A. Not gone, just really really busy. A lot of changes happening in my life. More about that a little later.
Trip report continued:
So we arrived in Negril and settled into the Grand Pineapple resort for the next three days…
My First impressions were that it was incredibly beautiful and amazing how close to the
waters we were.
My room was less than 20 steps from the beach and I was just dying to get my feet onto that sand.
That’s when I started to meet many of the locals. I noticed they were on one side of this imaginary line and the tourists on the other in their lawn chairs relaxing on the beach… I couldn’t figure out why that was… many were trying to call me over to them. Initially I tried to call them over to me on the resort side to no avail and that’s when I figured out the line between resort beach and public beach. So I went over and chatted with a few of the locals and immediately people were beginning to offer me things. I was still in shock mode of just being in Jamaica and bought more than what I really wanted or needed. I had a hard time saying “NO” because I felt so bad for them and seeing as how they didn’t have much and a few dollars here and there was not going to break my bank…
But as time went on and more and more vendors were trying to sell me stuff, I realized that it does add up and my bank would soon be broken, if I didn’t learn how to get a tougher skin and say “No thanks”. I got the hang of it all eventually. It was all good.
All in all, I really enjoyed Grand Pineapple and the beach.
The next morning we took a wave runner out with Markus and Daisy for some fun, but INTENSE moments out into the middle of the sea
(Basically the intense moment was jumping off the Wave Runner into the ocean and not being able to swim much because of the fear. We were really far out there... out in the deep waters
and all of us trying to get back onto that Wave Runner was an adventure in itself...).
