Day 2: The Others Arrive

[booger]

The color is purple on my screen.

[rastagal]

It's purple on mine too. But I can change it. Next install!

[rastagal]

NEW YEARS EVE!!!!

I need to speed this report up because I am starting to forget some things, so I’m going to get on the ball here. I will skip over the morning of this day because the night kind of rolled into the morning and well let’s just leave it at that. I had to find the other two girls because they had already gone to breakfast and the beach. So I just hung out and waited for them at the room. We needed to head downtown for Bobbie to change some money and go to Hi-Lo so Lisa could look for her freakin bananas (sigh). We get downtown and Bobbie got her money changed by some street dude, we bought a few Cd’s from a guy I had bought one from a few days ago…it was good so I told the girls to go ahead and buy from him. You know sometimes you buy cd’s off a random person on the street and they either don’t work or they are crap quality. We head up the road and come across a hardware store. Now, Bobbie had brought raft’s down for each of us but we realized after blowing them up that the nozzle would not stay inside the raft so all the air would promptly leak out. We decided we needed some duct tape. So as soon as we saw the hardware store we realized this would be the place to get us some duct tape!! After about 20 minutes we get out tape and continue on to Hi-Lo.

At this point we get a little follower because Bobbie and Lisa are walking ahead of me and Lisa has this look like “I have no idea where I’m going”. I keep telling her to keep walking, it’s up the hill a bit but she doesn’t listen and she mentions to the kid that she is trying to get to Hi-Lo. If she wouldn’t have been so OCD and just relaxed for a minute and let me walk in front everything would have been fine. Now she has her own personal tour guide all the way to Hi-Lo and of course through Hi-Lo as well. So he made out with some apples and some trail mix and I don’t know what else.

We leave Hi-Lo and everyone is hungry so I suggest we try Just Natural! We are already up this way and I’ve heard nothing but great things about that place. In a taxi and up we go. There isn’t anyone else dining when we get there and are greeted by a really nice lady…I think her name was Christine ? I’m horrible with names but she said we could call her long legs! Lol. She was sooo nice and welcoming. I ordered the Veg Plate and it was by far the best meal I had the entire trip. There was pumpkin and choc cho and beans and rice and peas and I don’t even know what else but it was DELICIOUS! I could have eaten every meal of every day there and been happy! And the prices are unbelievable! As in reasonable, not ridiculous. We take some photos while there and decide it’s time to head back to the hotel and try and fit in a nap so we can be ready for later. It’s New Years Eve and we are going to see Luciano!!!!!!!!

By the time we nap, shower, decide what to wear and get ready it’s close to 10pm. We need to get a move on FAST! We start walking down the beach road and grab a taxi to Seastar. The taxi driver is exceptionally friendly and decides to sing us a song…he has a great voice! We bring up a topic that Bobbie and I were chatting about earlier in the day, which was why Sizzla sings uplifting positive roots music but also caters to a dancehall crowd as well? He had a good explanation, which was he is an artist and kind of like an actor, sometimes you have to “act” a certain way for entertainment sake, and it does not necessarily mean you believe in those things….hmmmm, something to ponder I guess.

We get to Seastar and I am just so excited I feel like I might explode at any minute. I have been listening to Luciano since I was maybe 13 or so. Lord give me strength and Sweep over my soul have gotten me through some really rough days in my life….so this night I am feeling very blessed to be able to see him in person. It almost feels surreal. I go to the bar and get a drink and the girls get their food from the buffet. After I get my drink I look around and see they found a table right up front….Yaay! Good job girls! I sit down and the band is playing. It was funny because as I sat down I noticed one person in particular on stage that was… well…nice looking, and as soon as I mentioned it Bobbie chimes in..”Yeah, we were just talking about that”. Hahaha! Great minds think alike. So we are just chillin, talking, and waiting for the big moment…and when Chris get’s up on stage to announce Luciano I can’t even put into words how excited I was, THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!!

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[booger]

Killer videos!!!!! I already sent Chris a begging email to have him come back and play 4/20 weekend. Thanks for sharing, that was really cool. I was too busy getting my own party on and missed the broadcast.

Digging the trip report so far....

[rastagal]

FINALLY! I figured it out!

[pretty40]

Lovin your report. You making me hungry for Jus Natural!!

[rastagal]

@Booger hopefully you will be able to see him. It truly is an awesome show...

Pretty40 I am still dreaming about my food from Jus Natural..I'm mad it took me 10 years to eat there!...I was like...Yum veggie plate, where have you been all my life? LOL!

[Marko]

awesome report and love the video clips from the SeaStar Inn on New Years Eve!

Cool Runnings, Marko

[gerryg123]

great report but be careful about consorting with musicians, ha ha ..... good stuff!