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

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Trip Report Continued

Okay, I'm back

After our swim, we went back to our room to check our JA cellphone to find out what everyone else was up to. We discovered that we had missed a number of calls...

That's when we found out about what had happened to Guirgay's & SweetiePie from Marley. (see Guirigay's trip report ) Markus immediately called Guirigay. We were so upset to hear about this. We found out that they needed a place to stay, so we went off to find Jim Hurt. We told him the story and Jim immediately said he would help them out. “Have them call me” he instructed. “Don't worry, I'll take care of them” (thank you Jim – this is something I will never forget)

I was really saddened and disturbed that this had happened to my friends. I couldn't shake off this feeling right away and I mulled over it for a long time. The stretch of time between the phone call and getting picked up by Lenbert to meet up with the group at the Pub crawl seemed to stretch on for eternity. I felt very anxious to see them again and make sure they were doing okay.

I was grateful that Marley & Ninja had been there when it happened and helped them the way that they had. I can't say enough about how truly wonderful, kind and caring these two are.

At 3 PM we went to the parking lot in front of Seasplash and waited by the side of the road for the One Love Pub Crawl bus to arrive.

It didn't take long before we heard a honking horn and the colorful One Love Pub Crawl bus came to a rumbling stop in front of us. Lenbert stuck his head out the window and smiled “Daisy Markus!! Welcome! Get in!”

We cheered and jumped on board. We were shocked at the amount of people on this bus! It was completely PACKED. People were sitting on eachother's lap and sitting on the floor in the aisle. I started laughing because there was literally not a single spot left to even stand on this bus. Everyone squished together and giving us a narrow little space on the bus floor. We kind of wedged ourselves between 2 other couples on the floor. I was half-sitting on Markus's lap. The bus started and we all kind of toppled backwards over on to each other cracking up...I already knew this was going to be a wild and fun day. My mood was lifted again with all of this happy energy around me.



The first stop on the One Love Pub Crawl was called... ??....(Give me a second to check the Official April Trip Bible: http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...il-2012/page25 ) Okay. The first stop was a bar called The Sword fish.

It was right located right over the water. I followed all the bus passengers to the 1st floor. That's when we saw the rest of the crew hanging out at the bar. SweetiePie, Guirigay, Marley, Ninja, Katho, Wpyogi, SusieQ and Gerryg123



Guirigay assured us that he was okay. He and Sweetiepie are class acts and they refused to let this incident put a damper on their vacation. They weren't bitter or pointing fingers.They were still in good spirits. I just really admire how they handled this entire situation. They are both quite amazing.

I finally got a chance to chat a bit with Gerryg123. He surprised me because he was not at all like I expected. I thought I would meet this total wild man that could potentially throw me on the back of his scooter and drive us both off a cliff at 200 mph. lol!

But he was not like that at all! He was actually really laid back, soft spoken and down to earth.

He invited us all to join him for a dinner he was organizing with Bentley that night. We previously had planned on having dinner at Catcha but this was an exciting proposition and sounded like a lot of fun! I had heard a lot about Bentley's famous crab cakes and I had been wanting to experience it for a long time now.

Next stop on the pub crawl was C&D Country music bar. It's funny that the first country music bar experience would happen in Jamaica of all places! The bar was playing country as we entered, there were southern flags and western music albums all over the walls. Markus' expression is simply priceless. I can't look at this picture without laughing.



He looks like he's going to start crying...

He warmed up to the music eventually. The staff was friendly, the drinks prices were great and we ended up having a lot of fun.



our first round of Dirty Banana's – Absolute creamy perfection!