Now look what you made me do!!!!

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Sorry for the build up. Day 3 was just another normal day! The really good day was not until Day 5.

Day 3

This was a sand gravity day. We bought sugar cane and coconut from a fruit vendor. $250 JA each. One of our fellow travellers was a former farm worker who settled in Ontario who was back for a visit and holiday with his girlfriend. He gave us a niece berry to try. If they could make all fruit taste like a honey candy I would eat it all the time. One of the locals called out a tourist for “preventing him the opportunity to hit on another tourist” that the guy was hanging with. He came up to the tourist, who was sitting on the wall eating his lunch, there was an exchange and all I caught was the local guy calling the tourist a bumba klot. At that point the tourist set down his lunch, took off his glasses and told the guy that he was ready, willing and able to fight him but that he had to throw the first punch so that he would not be charged. The local backed down, security was called, the Police were going to be called, and in the end the tourist said he did not want to proceed any further and even went back to the guy to make peace. He then came back to us to apologize for the situation. We told that no apology was needed and that it provided some entertainment for us.


At 3.00 my wife went to the front desk and our beleaguered front desk told us that our new room was ready. We had packed everything in the morning so we were ready to roll. My wife took a few things and they had sent someone to help us move. When I went back to the room the phone was ringing so I picked it up. “Mr. Hall I gave you the wrong room, the key you have is for oceanfront and it has been booked by someone else. I misread the number; you should have 2701 instead of 2901”. I was going to say that we have the keys so we will keep the room but I know that he had no control of the situation so I agreed to meet him to exchange keys. Our new room was on the second floor of another building and was exactly what we had requested.

Italian Cafe was the destination for dinner. What a great little spot. Don’t tell anyone but there is a quaint courtyard in the back that has some picnic tables and a large lounger with tables as well. We only discovered this after the front lot was pretty full. Bruschetta, cheese pizza, 2 glasses of wine was $1950 JA.





Stopped at the Shamrock Grocery on the way home. This is a neat little store that is merchandised better than most stores in Canada. They even sell Voortman cookies from Burlington Ontario. 12 Red Stripe Light and 1 small Soursop $1950 JA – Same as dinner!





On the way out two guys stop us to talk. We chat for a few minutes and the driver wants to show is the “Real Negril”. I gave then each a beer and we told them that we were going into the mountains in the morning to visit some schools with our driver. They were trying to get us to go to a school in Negril and we politely told them that we were booked and keep our word. “Besides you don’t have a red plate or JUTA stickers in your windshield”. We thanked them for their time and headed back to the hotel.

At 2.00 AM my wife asked if I was still glad we had switched rooms. The “BOOM BOOM BOOM, BOOM BOOM BOOM” coming from Roots Bamboo was bouncing off our walls! I turned up the air and we actually had a good night’s sleep. If you are staying at Rooms be prepared for this as you gat it on the other side from Alfred’s on other night and from The Jungle on others. It is almost right in the middle of all three.

Day 4

Real sand gravity day as we never ventured more than 100 yards from the resort.

Fruit from the vendors, Momma was our favorite, and lunch from the Near Beer Bar. Fried chicken, rice and peas with salad and 2 Red Stripe - $1015 JA. They have small “box” meals that are $250 JA. Fried chicken, ox tail, goat. The food was very good and served hot.





Dinner was from a barrel guys that others at the resort had recommended – Blue Dandy. $800 JA for a half and bread. It was very good. I was short by $100 JA as one of the bills I had I thought was a $1000 but was $100. He told me to catch him later. We ate on “our” patio as we now had one.