I Will Stay With You...

[TizzyATX]

Thanks for sharing Luvs....wish you had made it on the Magic Bus! Great pics

[Babalew]

Knew you'd be a whirling dirvish...i get tired following you on FB, i can imagine the havoc you must create..walk good sista!

[Luvsdaislands]

OK, I am going to finish this today!!!

Boardwalk Village and The Board Bash..... One day we decided to get real puuurdy and go to Boardwalk Village for dinner and listen to the band. Boardwalk Village is a combination of souvinir stores and restaurant and is just beautiful, wonderful location and very friendly staff. The only complaint that I had was the mosiquitos....they torn our legs up!!!!

Here are some pics from that evening:

[marley9808]

Ooooh, I love the dress! Very pretty!

[Misti1]

Luvs , every single night I go out in Negril I take my Deep Woods in my bag with me. I am always prepared and I never get to smell good, LOL, but I don't get eaten.

[Luvsdaislands]

The Boardie Bash was great and we had a wonderful turnout!!! It was great to put faces with names and to meet everone!! I didn't know that so many folks actually live in Negril...I am so jealous but one day I will be able to say the same thing!!! The food at Canoe was good!!!



I just had to take this pic of Sweetness...she looked so peaceful and relaxed just walking along the shore of the beach at Canoe!!!


Just a few more pics:


And the group:


Thank you to Canoe for allowing us to meet and greet at your establishment!!!!!!

[Luvsdaislands]

See the skeetas...they were HUGE!!!

[Luvsdaislands]

OOOOOKK!!! NOW it get's teary eyed right here and the explanation of the title of my trip report... I Will Stay With You!...

The last full day in Jamaica and I decide that I was going to find the fried chicken place that I went to many years ago (had THE BEST fried chicken I have tasted, it tasted just like my momma's!!) and to get another taste of jerk pork!! One day when me and Mr. FIONESEXY were out driving we past by this road with a bar and I made note of the exact location for furture reference!!! So on my last full day I woke up, showered and dressed and went to SxyATL's room where her and MsDreadyV were relaxing and after a while I said "I'm going to get me some frien chicken and jerk pork!!" and they said "we going with you" and off we went. Outside of Rayon at the Elvis Bike Rental are taxi drivers that we use and I asked Romaine if he could take me to that jerk spot he took me too the other night (the pork wasn't that great because it was the last bit and near closing time) cuz I wanted to try it freshly cooked. I told him that I wanted to go to a fried chicken spot and I think I remember how to get there and he said "sure hop in"

So we head down the beach road towards the roundabout and I tell him to go left like you going to Sheffield, we are looking for a bar that sits on the right where the bikers hangout and it is across from a huge orange wall. OK...so we ride and ride and ride ... and a time or two I hear from the peanut gallery in the backseat "uuhhh YoYo are we lost", "you sure you know where you are going" and I say "we not lost and I do know" but I was starting to second guess my own self, LOL!!! AHH HHAA..THERE IT IS TURN HERE TURN HERE is what I tell him and up the road we go and I say "we are looking for a small cookshop and up from it is a white house" We past many white houses and cookshops until we reach it and I say THAT'S IT...RIGHT HERE!!! He pulls up in the yard and we get out and I am all smiles...after all these years I FINALLY found this place again.

*PAUSE* for a briefe explanation of how I came across this place: A few years back I was in Jamaica alone and was out walking and a cabbie pulled over to chat me up, we exchanged numbers and we called and wanted to take me out to the country side...well who was I to say NO (I am always up for an adverture), LOL. He took me to his house and then we took me to this cookshop where all the locals that lived in the area would go to after work. Well I had only been there that one time but the chicken made just that much of an impression on me that I have been determined to get back...but I didn't keep in touch with the cabbie so I had no way of knowing where it was located. BUT lucky that I pay very close attention to where I go when I venture out with strangers in Jamaica!!!


*back to chicken place* Ladies and Gents the name of the cookshop is Ms. Etty's and it is located in Orange Hill...I didn't get a good pic of the actual shop because I was too excited that I found it!!!




These are a few pics of the ride coming back down from Orange Hill:

[Luvsdaislands]

NOW, as we are riding around Romaine is playing Tarrus Riley and we absolutely LOVE Tarrus Riley!!! The windows are down and the breeze with flowing through the car and we are eating Ms. Etty's fried chicken. AND then it happens... Tarrus Riley's song I Will Stay With You comes on and we get to singing...I am singing and swaying arm out the window going from side to side and I am in a zone. MsDreadyV touches my shoulders and says "she is in her zone" and next thing you know the tears FLOW!!! OMG...then SxyATL starts crying...then MsDreadyV starts crying...so we are all crying and singing... I Will Stay With You through your ups and your downs...I will stay with you when no one else is around...I will stay with you.....!!! Just sad this is the end of our trip but yet happy to be together and have had this time. And then he puts the song on repeat...this time we are crying and laughing and singing at the same time!!! OH!! what a bonding experience it was!!!

[Delta]

Big babies! LOL