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    As soon as i reach there are certain things i must do. here is the list - visit with uncle dave even if it for two minutes. get carton of cigerates (marlbro's), a few day supply of ja smoke, and i buy two beach towels for my self (one for shower, one for beach).this time i nedded - new sim card for phone, and to purchase tickets to a concert later that night. Our first stop on our aron run was at cambio so i could get some funny money. Sometimes we use the guys outside cambio, but only if rate is near the rate inside cambio. i watched my mom our first trip almost get scammed, so i double check it like three times. Jose knows the guy, we get the same rate as inside, so i give the the change part extra. they dont just scam to make money, if you give them a tip, even a dollar it adds up.

    so with money in our hands we head to scub a dub to buy tickets for a show that night. Now at this point its like 3 or four in the afternoon. I know shannon only ate breakfast in the airport and aint complaining she hungry because she is full of excitment. So I tell jose to stop at the acui tree reasturant on the road to srub a dub. when you take the right from negril on the road srub is on, its down about a hundred feet on the right. Jose and i stop there alot because they have good fish that he likes, and i like there fried chicken. So we stopped and ordered 3 meals, fish for jose, fried chix for me and shannon got fish as well and was taught by a profesional how to eat it. she wasnt a big fan of bones, but she ate it. I went to the store next to the reastuarnt, and purchased i think like 10 box drinks. I love ja box drinks, all flavors exept ginger and sorral. i think i got 12, 6 frozen and 6 non frozen. i drink two with a meal, and wanted both jose and shannon get the same amount of drinks as me. i know the frozen ones come in handy, they melt as needed, sonow with our bellys full we headed to srub a dub.

    I am know dummy, i wanted jose, shannon and i to go to a concert later that night and wanted to save money buying my tickets in advanced. So we went to scrub a dub, and there was all kinds of prep going on getting ready for the show. Jose is known by it seems like everyone, we pulled up to the gate, he beeped, i jumped out of the car. jose pointed at a guy, i walked up to him and asked hime for three tickets. He said "its not my show, but hold on". The guy went through the gate and was gone about two minutes. Thats quick for jamaica, he comes back with three tickests and takes my money. I get in the car and jose tells me that was the owner of scub a dub. The show was some sort of ladies night show, It had Sheba, Lisa Hyper, Pamputee, just to name a few. it was when that song "fluffy vs slim" came out. all ladies on the bill.
    so now we got tickets, next stop hi-low plaza. In case your wondering this aron trip i am in jose car not on scooter. We stop at plaza so i can get two towels and a carton of cigeretts. My friends i been buying stuff from for years, say "your Back", and send a girl to the back for a carton of my smokes. I felt big when he then said i got two towels you dont saved for you. Wow, a new island map, and a new sunset type. with smoke and towels another aron down. During the time i got tickets, then at plaza shopping, shannon was sitting in hot car. She was fine with it because she was enjoying talking to jose. this was there first time meeting so they both had all kinds of questions. each time i got back in the car i did an eye roll on the topic of there conversation. so next stop uncle dave's for a visit.

    more to come

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    Shannon really wanted her hair braided, but not regular braids, full head of mirco braids. Not only small braids on her whole head, but added hair to make longer or suttin. So i asked my go to guy, Uncle dave what and/or who to do hair. Well uncle dave had company in his house, his yard is shared and a girl from ochi was visting a friend in the yard and over heard our conversation. Dave asked if she done hair before, she answered she did that stuff all the time so Zoey, would be braidding shannons hair. We made plans to link up monday and get started on the hair. At this point in the day i am now starting to feel the effects of heat, travelling and no sleep. So we say good bye to uncle dave and the girls and jose drops us off at blue cave castle. I forgot to mention i bring down alot of stuff for my fam in jamaica. i bring the girls barbie dolls and coloring books and things. I gave the girsl each one gift, but nikki new more was comming. I brought a small goodie bag of sweeties for the girls for the first visit, when i left they were all jacked up on candy. Shannon mentioned she felt bad that dave had to deal the jacked up kids.

    So when we got back to hotel, we unpacked alittle, used a twin bed to make to piles, stuff for us, the other pile gifts. I finally had enuff of the heat and defrosting. thru on my bathing suit, and waited for Shan to get ready to go down to the water. I brought my mask down and jumped right in. Snorkelled for a few minutes, made sure shannon was fine on the edge of cliff. She didnt want to go in, but did ip from the latter, girly style. We just kinda hung out by the water till sunset. we got out of the water and back to the rooms ajoinning patio with the lower tower room. Burned and watched the sunset. We had made planns for jose to pick us up for the concert around 11:30pm, thats early for jamaica, i thought, i know you old timers going holy crap thats late.
    So i took a shower and headed by myself to get me and shannon some dinner before taking nap to go to show. I went to barrel guy in front of fisherman wharf bar. the one you pay the lady and get a ticket. I was supposed to be djing a party there the next night, but the police shut it down before party could even happen. I know the woman, she appoligized that we couldnt have party there, and gave me extra ticket for quaurter chicken, so i was happy. 3 quarter chix later i was back at castle
    "what no sides" shannon asked. Its a snack, something in your belly. We snacked and then smoked ourselfs asleep.

    well my alarm went off, about 11pm. i wanna say i got atleast a two hour nap maybe 3, but didnt want to get up so hiy dismiss. i thought about how i was waisting 3 tickets to concert. Kinda fell back asleep. I woke up to the phone vibrating. rolled over and about two minutes later i hear a whisper "yyooooooooooooo". It was jose, he was outside the window. I got up in my underwhare, gave jose the tickets. He said put on some cloths man, i said shannon not getting up, dont want get in trouble. "you can go just shut off the light" shannon said. I never put on cloths so fast in my life in the dark. Jose new what that ment so he jumped when she said that to the light switch and turned it off. I got dressed in the dark and jose waited for me in the car. The two amigo's were on our way. No women, on our way to scrub a dub. its about 12:30 at this point. On the way to srub a dub there is cars parked down the street. where the parking lot is for srub a dub is where the concert is tonight, out side. I stood on the pool deck for awhile, it was a nice spot to watch the show. The show itself very entertaining. The song "clarks" by vybez kartel had just came out, so each lady did there own version of the song. My favorite was "slippers" i think Sheba did it. the whole crowd roard when she did her version. we stayed way past the end of show, the normal bird cage part of the bar did not get opened til after the show, wich was after 3:30am. Jose brought me back to the castle, no problems getting back in late.

    thats day one. more to come. sorry about my style and spelling. Hopefully gets better

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brianfrommass View Post
    I brought a small goodie bag of sweeties for the girls for the first visit, when i left they were all jacked up on candy. Shannon mentioned she felt bad that dave had to deal the jacked up kids.
    I am really enjoying your report. So many times I found myself smiling and saying "awwww" out loud when I read your words. Like the quote above. I bring a lot of sweeties so I'm guilty of jacking up kids and adults. so much fun. I admire how you gave all your attention to Shannon making sure her first visit was a great one. Waiting for more!

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    I happen to be an early riser. I dont get people who sleep til noon. I am a dj who rocks a party til closing time 2am, then gotta wind down the adrenliene to go to bed and i am still up everymorning before 8am. Jamaica is the worst. go to bed at 5:30 am and i am up at 7:30am. Fyi- i take a nap almost eveyday though around 2pm.
    This first morning in jamaica no diffrent, up before 7:30am. i am groggie but awake. i start my morning process wich envoles a morning toke. Shannon woke up to me hacking up a lung. GGlad it was early in the morning, feeling refreshed, she was in a good mood and ready to see jamaica. So we went down so i could wake up with a swim. I love jumping in the ocean and floarting around with my mask on seeing diffrent fish trying to get breakfast.
    After a short swim we headeed to the room to get ready for the day. I burn easy, so we have a morning thing where i get covered in sun block if we going out on the bike, so we hit the road all blocked up. Now since i got the bike the day before, shannon has not been on it, i told her to wait until i got thru the gate and she would hop on outside the gate. She hops on alittle nervous, and we head twards town. I can tell she nervous, but smilling and taking it all in. I have been telling her about all these palces and now she seeing them for the first time. it was early, like before 9am whan we toched the road.

    Our first stop was the bus park/free beach. I pulled into the craftmarket but tokk a right down the path twards the bar (where the parties are on sundays). We rolled up got of scooter and took helmet off. A guy was raking beach and some other guys had just pulled in with box truck. they were getting ready to unload speakers. the guy raking, new me form over the years being here and there, walked over to me with a fist pound and said suttin like back again. That made shannon smile. I showed her the beach, gave her enuff time to dip her feet in sand and sea. From there we went down the beach road. I started to point stuff out, she said something like "jose should me yesterday" in that annoying voice. so we did a quick up and down the beach road.

    So after quick ride i decide i will show her one of my favorite hidden jels in jamaica. Those of you that kno how to get to red dragon from gas station, almost get there. on the road to sav, right before the first gas station,(not scub a dub road) that road before gas station will take you to the corner where the red dragon is. Well if you go straight up that road, past red dragon on the corner on right hand side is the road that will take you to tank hill. Drive all the way to the top of the hill/mountain and turn around. Wow what a view. Uncle dave also has property up there so i showed shannon his land. the roads wrap around up there so we did a quick scence tour.
    From there our scooter tour countinued, we went on the road to sav to sheffeild. we stopped a few places along the way so i could let some people know i was in Jamaica. Right buy the negril golf coarse, is where jose lives. I stay with hime on most of my solo trips. i wanted to show shannon where i stay but he had already left for the day and gate was locked. Luckly for us some of the local charictars were around and she got to meet my good frend puntsy. Puntsy an older jamaica women, i was told she was a live one in her day, and still is now. Always singing and dancing. She has this high skreetch voice some say annoiying, Music to my ears. She introduced her self to shannon and started talking to her not paying any attention to me. Oh i get it she is the new and i am the old, ok. Shannon meets half of the neighbor hood, and we head back to negril. We stopped for lunch a small place across from the fire station, its on tank hill road. We order stew chix and curry goat. she aint a fan of the goat so i enjoy it myself. the rest of the day we kinda just chilled at castle, we nappeed until sunset then went to the canoe for dinner,
    Georgina always rembers me, but never my name. She rembers i am the guy who stays in sheffeild with no fridge or stove. she know i stay with rasta in the hills. Respect. I introduced the ladies and got started on 2 for 1 rum punches, we ate in patio deck in back when food was ready, we ordered from the couches. I think i got snapper samwich with mango mayo, but not exactly sure, i get that alot. Other than our first night, we went to bed pretty early. our room didnt have tv, wich was fine for us, we had the radio on when we were awake in the room. it was fine. so early to bed day two

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