TiCtOc pon di rock LIVE AND DIRECT **TRIP REPORT** On a Zero budget.

[TiCtOc]

Hey everyone I am home safe and sound but I have to wait up to 72 hours for my internet connection to go back online boooo I should be on today or tomorrow by the latest so I can post all of the rest of my report.I am getting impatient waiting for my internet to come back on grrr!!
Also after quickly scanning the board I see the biartching is BACK in full force LOL I have only been gone for 5 minutes- I soooo need to get back there!

[TiCtOc]

p.s I thought I would have my jetlag day on the flight home but got crammed in next to someone elses unruly 6 year old child who thought it would be fun to poke and kick and slap me every 5 seconds for nearly ten hours LOL I came home and just got straight back into things no tiredness no jetlag nothing just a feeling of wth am I doing back here nooooo.Check back soon hopefully no longer than 24 hours I should be back up and running!

[Schuttzie]

So glad you home safe and sound but sorry for you that you had to leave. Keep all your memories alive and treasure them! Can't wait for more about your country travels

[TiCtOc]

I may have to DESTROY the postman if he brings me any more bills, I had enough to swim in LOL ahhh who cares it was all worth it!I am looking forward to posting the rest ASAP

[Vince]

Sorry about the bills-Lets keep this party going!!-Let the trip report about the country

[irieworld]

hey tic, are you recovered enough from your travels to give us a taste a of your country travels? I am kinda going through trip report withdrawals with Gerry and Brasi winding down (and where are the exciting guy out on the town narratives boys?) and thanks be that rastagal is putting up some great stories along with rumpole--but Tic come back and give us a taste of country please

[Jamerican71]

Hey Tic Toc - I haven't read everything but I did read your review about the party you hosted and your Travellers review. First of all, I thought you planned a fantastic day for all of us but I guess Mother Nature had other plans. I didn't really meet other boardies as everybody appeared to be in their own group including my large group but I did meet Dawn.

Because of you, I was finally able to follow through on my numerous promises to Monk to buy a brick - I purchased 2 bricks and spent some time speaking with the people who made the presentation.

I was very surprised at the condition of the pool. The water was very cloudy and extra cold and it didn't have anything to do with the rain. That pool needed some serious cleaning. You played a great hostess especially ensuring that we all got our rum punch! We kind of expected a waitress taking drink orders so when that didn't happen, my cousin went to the bar to get us drinks and we were surprised they ran out of Red Stripe. I did ask one of the sons what happened and he said he was unsure but was working on it.....I think that is something that should have been figured out much earlier from management.

We had planned to do the buffet but after the service we received, most of the folks in my group decided they didn't want to but some did go to the restaurant and hand ordered food there. The rest went back to NBCC, ordered, ate our food and finished way before those that stayed at Travellers.

I got a kick out of the raffle - you and your 200 numbers. I loved how you kept the smile on your face the entire time.

I hope to meet up again in Negril again!

[TiCtOc]

I cannot explain how it felt to be leaving Negril, there are no words apart from a big boo hoo for me!
I was trying to hold it all together, trying real hard, it seemed the shortest visit ever and I do not know why as I squeezed every secondof fun I could out of my trip I savoured every second and enjoyed every minute,I barely slept so I missed no time at all yet I felt my holiday was only just beginning yet it was ending.

People were saying goodbye my friends, the staff, thedrivers the tourists.I was holding it all together and then our musician friend came to say goodbye and played a song which he wrote which is a favourite of mine and we regularly stood at the piano in travellers beach resort with me sipping on a rum and pepsi stood by the piano just like in the movies listeningto a song being played he wrote himself and sung to me (yes the family were there too for enquiring minds!) sometimes I would just listen to him sing that song though, so he came and said goodbye and played the song and all of the musical memories of the month came flashing back one after the other after theother.Remembering the sweet little musical sounds from the strumming of one stringon a guitar to the heavy sounds of the bongo drum , keyboards , big drum kitsand then of course my favourite of all, the big bass- sound system speakers ,the ones that when they get plugged in , nothing in the whole world matters andthe bass starts to fill up your soul until you almost explode with bass and happiness, if you do not like loud Jamaican music or music in general you willat this point wonder if I have lost the plot but for those of you who lovesound systems and music you know what I am talking about!BOOM BOOM BOOM yes yes LOL now I knowwhy that man says yes yes, the Jamaican music and speakers start to fill your soul!

[TiCtOc]

BOOM BOOM BOOM Once you go you know, if you don’t know you need to get to know BOOM BOOM BOOM

That is the sound I will miss terribly until I return, no sound systems where I live, none at all.Not even a little hum or a whistle NOTHING AT ALL.The only beat I hearat home is my heart pounding to get back to Jamaica BOOM BOOM BOOM!
I can only now dream of the BOOM BOOM BOOM until I return.
So I was holding back my emotions, I usually wait until my family are well out of the way before I get emotional they have never seen me upset about Jamaica, maybe they do not realise how much in love with it I am?
So we fill up the car, the musician jumps in to get out up the road and my eyes start to fill up.I turned the other way hoping nobodywould notice but my husband saw me and started complaining and shouting at me asking what the hell am I crying at I never cried before then the driver is looking at me in amazement as he has drove me everywhere for a month always seeing me laughing and smiling with my likkle bottle of rum I do not think he could believe I had tears then the kids were making jokes and the musician asked was I crying LOL world swallow me up LOL I couldn’t stop the tears they just bust out no controlling it this time I usually wait until a quiet moment or behind my shades and shed a tear but I had forgotten to put my shades onso..
BAWLOUT

[Sheba]

Hush.
No Woman nah cry.
It is always hard to leave. Luckily you were only leaving Negril at that stage.
Hope you had a ball for the remainder of your time.
Glad your internet connection is up and running. Looking forward to hear the rest of your adventures.
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