First trip to Negril - Travel Report - Day 3: Part 2

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I felt beach gravity beginning to descend over my body.. It started at my head and slid down to my toes. My feet felt heavy as we trekked through the sand back to the Grand Pineapple.

We decided to just relax for the rest of the day. There was nowhere we needed to be and nowhere we needed to go. It was truly the best feeling in the world.

I always had a fantasy of floating on an inflatable bed in the ocean. It's something I had never experienced before. I had only seen it in pictures...

Grand Pineapple has tons of floatees, so I grabbed one happily while Markus settled down on a beach chair to sketch.

“I'm going to go FLOAT now.. for a looong time... just.. float...”, I said joyfully holding my new floating device.

I don't think Markus fully understood my excitement but he kept a watch over me from the shore. (Just in case I fell asleep and started drifting off towards Cuba)

After careful deliberation over which stretch of beach to float in (finally decided the expansive stretch of water in front of Alfred's) I waded out into the warm crystal clear waters with my new toy... and I just blissfully floated.



I don't know how long I floated out there. I just remember the feeling of the warm sun licking the droplets of water off my skin and the sensation of drifting along on the gentle waves. I was in heaven in that moment. Only the soft distant reggae music coming from Alfreds and the sound of the water lapping against the shore..

it was me alone, all my stresses dissolved.. all my frustrations, fear, grief.. it all seemed so far away all of a sudden. Like a distant memory of another time...

I must have fallen asleep at some point because when I opened my eyes I had washed up the shore and Markus was smiling down at me.

I dragged my relaxed body off the floatee and moved over to a comfortable beach chair.



Markus continued sketching, I watched him until my eyes felt heavy from the sun and I drifted off again. I LOVE beach gravity. I could do this every day.. all day...

Eventually we managed to shuffle our newly tanned bodies back towards the Grand Pineapple bar.. they were experimenting with new rum cocktails and inviting guests to try them all. (and we did) Breadfruit cocktail, Ginger Cocktail and Pumpkin cocktail





We hung out with our British friends for s while until I started feeling tired. The morning snorkeling trip, the walking along the beach, swimming, laying out on the sun and many cocktails left me feeling dizzy and satisfied.

I decided that I was going to take a nap... Markus was still very much awake and active. So I gave him a kiss and told him to wake me up before the sunset..

Coming back to a cool hotel room after a day on the beach is the best feeling in the world. I turned on the AC and nestled under the soft covers.

I realized that today was our last full day at the Grand Pineapple. Tomorrow we would leave the “Safe Haven” of an AI and venture over to the Coco La Palm hotel for the last 3 days of our vacation.. I had no idea what we had in store for us in the new hotel, but I didn't have much time to contemplate it.

I was asleep within minutes.

I'll hand the narrative over to Markus and let him finish day 3.