Guirigay and Sweetie Pie’s PaRedux It’s all true and it never really happened…

[Sweetness]

Belly Flop Nah Easy video had me cryfing (crying/laughing) so hard. I love you guys.

[spottycatz]

Absolutely brilliant! You fellow turtles are all crazy! Love you all!

[ralonzo29]

So I've been MIA from reading the turtle trip reports. Just catching up now and I LOVE LOVE LUV my man Guirigay's recall of the events along with his internal commentary. Its nice to know at some point he and I were on the same page. Basically WTF can I do to win this up against the big guns and the acrobats. I did truly bring me back. At any moment you saw me not splashing I was basically think UHM NOW WHAT. Well when it came down to MANO A MANO (not to be confused with MONO y MONO - which means basically ape to ape) I think the show men did their best. As for Guirigay's last flop he went for the heart strings and well I just showed them all my HOT CHOCOLATE MANnerism doing what men do best, falling flat on their face But the flop was fun and I write my next lines as an ode to my fellow flop combatants, you will go down in history as the best, the brightest , the first :


On this Day 8 Floppers were set,
To drink and smoke and get really wet.
Thanks to Brasi the pain was for cause,
For some of us the pain would cause pause.

To talk the purest flop for all invested,
Musicdoc wins this uncontested.
If its aerial height and ability to fly,
even R.Kelly can see Drummerboy and Gonjon win the tie.
Boogers got skin & the floppers tuck
Sandies got Rocker Style, She don't give a F@$k

Now GerryG had the biggest wake
But back flopping came and stole his cake.

I have to admit Guirigay shook my cool
The minute his first flop hit the pool
With props and bribes and a sly cunning grip
his flops came alive with pure showmanship.

But Guirigay fell victim to one of the classic blunders,
A folly that surely pulled him asunder.
The most famous being about land wars in Malaysia,
Whats that Vizzini, oh I'm sorry its Asia.
But only slightly less well known but equally sublime
Never go in against a Ninja when the FLOP is on the line.

[marley9808]

LMAO!
That was Awelarious babe!

The Princess bride nod got me.....you know how I love that movie!

[Guirigay]

Turtlemates, thank you Ninja - I am humbled... and appreciative of your verse. See Boogs, you can't stop it, it's what the people want! Well, probably not, but there is just enough momentum out there to keep the silly ball rolling. "I didn't do it!"

[Guirigay]

Tuesday - The Magic Bus (Ooh Yeah, The Magic Bus)

We’re up early this morning, we’re going to catch the sunrise. Water is boiled and we break open the High Mountain coffee we bought at the store on Sunday. Grab the Banana Rum Cream and we’re up to the rooftop for the unveiling of the day. It is greeted with much pleasure and anticipation. We brought Manda home with us last night. She got a little carried away at the Belly Flop and we put her to bed early with only minimal fuss. We roust her this morning and she’s a little grumpy, especially because we’ve already finished the coffee. She grabs a quick smoke on the porch before we get going.





I grab a bankroll for the day and move the cash stash, letting Sweetie Pie know where I put it. We have a brief conversation with the landlord. We talk about sheets and towels. I tell him we’re good, don’t need to waste water, we’ll let him know when they smell  He likes this. “You’re a real Jamaican, mon,” he says, “Respect.” I let him know we’re touring today, we’ll be back late. He says he heard us trying to turn on the stove today before using the electric water kettle. “I’m sorry, shoulda done it already but you said you wouldn’t be cooking much this trip.” “No worries, mon,” we say and we head out. Manda just can’t resist fooling with the dogs in the yard. They’re very cute…





Sweetie Pie wants to grab some shots of street dogs. She has a website she’s created about them. We’re hoping to find Scar, our ever present street dog pal from February. We do get a lot of shots but I’ll leave the selection of the dog shots and where they are posted to Sweetie Pie. We do grab a few other beauty shots on our way up the lane.

[Guirigay]

We walk our old morning route in reverse, going up as far as Home Sweet Home. We stop in, wondering if Juli is up, but there is NO ONE moving at HSH at 7 in the morning. Manda though, apparently feeling her mojo from porch time, wants to dive off the cliffs. Manda! The seas are rough this morning! Waves are crashing over the sea access deck!





We head back toward Mi Yard for some breakfast, walking up the lanes a little in the area where we would always run into Scar. No sign, in fact there aren’t many dogs at all in the area where we used to run into Scar. Walking up some of the lanes is pretty eye opening as well, you don’t have to go far up some of them to see the poor conditions many Jamaicans live under. Shrub hovels are right there in the brush if you look, we decide NOT to take a picture and head back toward West End Road.

Manda is a handful, running after everything. She wears me out and I need a break. I try to give her a stern talk but she just doesn’t seem to hear me.





And to prove it, as soon as we get settled in at Mi Yard for a little breakfast she is bolting for the beach across the road. Manda! What a handful!





We order some coffee and breakfast, Sweetie Pie gets a fruit plate and mango juice and I know I’m going to have saltfish dumplings. Sweetie Pie REALLY wants soursop juice here. It’s the one thing she told me I didn’t include in our last trip report, how much she loved the soursop juice at Mi Yard, but they’re out. Mrs. Mi Yard remembers me ordering a whole plate of dumplings back in February. “You really do like them!” she says. Ya, mon! Sweetie Pie grabs a few shots after we’re done as we wait for the Magic Bus. I point out the shot through the Mi Yard gate I tried to get last time. No fishermen yet this morning though…





I think this is a pretty spectacular shot…





She usually has a better eye for subject matter but I still like this one…





It’s a little after 8, the Magic bus should be here soon…

[Manda81]

What an amazing trip report !!! I'm only just catching up on all the "Turtle Report" ... Loving this one! The way you tell your story much like Clarity and Hubby-Man I feel like I'm there with you .. and then I come to realize I was!! lol Those photos of me .. thank you for taking me along ! It seems I really got around much more than I realized. The flop videos had me in real tears this morning .. and I couldn't imagine a better way to spend my Saturday morning (while at work).

[Sweetness]

Woohoo more report......the ONE LOVE boat picture is EPIC and needs to be submitted for publishing. More more more pretty please.

[TizzyATX]

Fantastic

Can't wait to hear your tale of this day...Marley posted hers this morning and just really did a No. on me. So bring it on, I'm already a freakin mess. LOL

Tell you what, I miss you all everyday but some days are harder and this one has been KILLA!

ONE LOVE