10 Years, 12 Nights, 6 Hotels, ONE LOVE - April 2012 Trip Report

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[Clarity]

RastaStan sang “Stand by me” to a cheering crowd. He's amazing! Lisa handed over her tiny laptop for me to join in the negril.com webcast next to Rob, which was a lot of fun. (thanks Lisa!) It was great seeing both of them again.



Luciano's performance was incredible. I remember all of us dancing in a big crowd.

Eventually the night began to wind down. I looked at my watch and realized it was getting late. The receptionist desk was already closed, so that eliminated the possibility of a hotel wake up call.

How on earth were we going to wake up at 6:00 AM in the morning for my cousin's arrival and our drive to Mandeville to meet the rest of my family? What if we overslept? My cousin doesn't even know what room we're in... What a terrible first impression that would be if I'm not even ready when she arrives to pick us up? I was worried. This meant too much to me. I didn't want to screw this up.

I scanned the sea of new friends. Who would be awake THAT early tomorrow morning?

Then I remembered PattySather telling me that she wakes up at the crack of dawn to go running along the beach every morning.

I knelt down next to her chair. “Patty, I have a favor to ask of you... a big favor” I whispered.

PattySather leaned in close to me and took my hands in hers. “Anything. Just ask”

((Love her))

“We have to be up super early in the morning to head over to Mandeville and there is no alarm clock in the room.” I said “I have this phone. This rental JA phone that I don't even know how to use... Could you call this phone when you wake up? That would mean the world to me”

Patty immediately agreed. “Of course, sweetie, no problem at all!!”

She took my number and promised she would give us a call at 6 AM. I was eternally grateful and relieved.

Of course Manda and Joe Trinidad were there too (on Popsicle sticks) – I decided to take Manda with me to Mandeville.

We should have gone straight to bed after that... but we did not.

[Clarity]

We got caught up in a great conversation with Marley & Ninja. Then rum shots was ordered.. and we were all laughing and chatting up a storm together. We found out that Ninja & Markus had clearly been separated at birth. Marley felt like a friend I had known my whole life.

Eventually we looked around and that's when we realized that the bar was closed, the room was dark and all the tables around us were now empty. How did that happen?

Instead of going to bed, we decided to go back to Marley & Ninja's room at Seastar to try out the famous cake vodka that we kept hearing about...We were just having so much fun, we didn't want the night to end

I only have one picture from that:



Right after that picture was taken and the drink was consumed...Markus raised his arm up in a celebratory “wooo hooo!!” and for those that do not know this... Markus is quite tall.

And that when I heard a loud “THUMP THUMP!”

That sound of Markus's fingers getting caught in the ceiling fan. We all gasped in shock and Markus yelled “Aaaaagh”!

There was a horrific moment when I thought Markus's fingers were chopped off! I imagined the paramedics arriving and all of us searching through the room for his dismembered fingers.

His face was twisted with pain. He was clutching his hand and forced his fingers open to examine the damage.

All of his fingers were still intact. He was okay.

“Don't worry. I'm fine honey, see?”, He wiggled all of his fingers on both hands. They were little scratched up and bruised from the fan blades but he was alright.

I breathed a loud sigh of relief. That was scary.

But we knew that it was now officially time to end the party and get some sleep. We all hugged and bid farewell.

Markus and I were laughing together as well fell into our bed in room 12 of Seastar inn.

“That was so much fun...tonight...so much fun...”, Markus murmured as he drifted off to sleep.

I was thinking the same thing as I dozed off.. It was such an amazing night!
But in the back of my mind.. I thought... Oh my gosh I hope we wake up in time to go to Mandeville tomorrow... please let us wake up in time...

To be continued...

For another view of this same night with lots of great pictures of Luciano – check out Marley & Ninja's trip report here http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...ril-2012/page5
Guirigay's view http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...E2%80%A6/page2
Spottycatz view http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...ght=Spottycatz

[TiCtOc]

I am digging the report I am not digging markus' man flu everytime it is report writing time! Upwards and onwards please