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

[sbeth]

Happy to see an update!

[Guirigay]

Awesome time!!!

It was, thanks!

That woman has mad skills.

Serious Sauce.

LOVE love love all of these pictures! Wonderful update! It brings back all the amazing memories from our time together! We miss you guys!
P.S. I love my disguises lol - particularly the tiara and clown nose. haha! I think I'm going to pack one in my suitcase because the look really works for me

You should definitely bring the clown nose back with you, you worked it like a sexy Emmet Kelly. Ewww, WTF am I talking about? Still, bring the bulb!

so my burning question Mr. Guirgay, is where is the photo of you in the trunks sweetie pie picked for you? Am I missing something? I love that you came back to finish what you started. Cankles and all. Were you drinking enough water to stay hydrated there?

It remains a burning question of mine, as well, Irie. It exists, I have not seen it and this worries me... I still haven't seen the photo of Ex-Patty at Pee Wees either...

Happy to see an update!

Thanks for hanging in there SBeth, and here we go...

[Guirigay]

So here we are, at the end of one story and the beginning of another. They are separated by mere moments and the lengthy span of eight months. They are the same story and entirely different. They are fleeting moments that will last forever, or at least a lifetime…

We live, each of us, in the pinch of an hourglass. All of our history has led to this moment and the vast expanse of our future lies ahead. Time and history pass through the pinch but we, forever, are stuck there. Sweetie Pie and I have found a group of folks whom we’re so very grateful to be able to say, “We can rely on in a pinch.” To paraphrase the classic Stealer’s Wheel, ”Clowns to the left of us, Jokers to the right, Here we are, Stuck in the middle with you.” Let’s be honest, though, there may be the occasional clown and joker right in our midst.

Saturday was a special day, a sacred day. It was spent almost entirely at Catcha in the company of angels. The blessed were about, Marley Madonna and Ninja the Archangel, St. Markus the Evangelist and Daisy and her weeping statue, The Ethereal Sweetness. Later in the day the Apostle Brasi would spend a long stretch and we were visited by Gerry the Resurrector, along with his sidekick SuzieQ. Coco and her husband arrived Saturday as well and we got to spend a little bit of time with them. Lovely folks.

I have never really planned to write a whole lot about Saturday. It was a very personal day for me. I know that’s kind of strange from someone who’s put a lot of personal stuff out there over the past year, especially about some of the folks I don’t want to talk about now, but that’s how I feel. I do have a few photos that I think give a little bit of a feel for the day…

All the cane fields on the island must be barren because this morning at my breakfast table I have all the sugar in Jamaica. Sweetie Pie and Sweetness! Quick, get me some insulin!


This was a big chunk of the afternoon. The ladies set up shop at Ivans. Brasi in da house. Clown Robber Clarity actually tries to hold people up with a blender drink all day. It wasn't very effective on anyone but me, she took me for a benjamin. I'm so embarrassed...




Sweetness captures Brasi and me hanging on the cliff edge, Marley is snorkeling behind us.



Playing Ninja myself, I sneak up on Hubbity to find Markus sketching Sagi.



Gerry the Resurrector stops by and literally raises the dead. I'm duly impressed, for a fool. I love this picture of Gerry.



Sweetie Pie, Ninja and Marley look absolutely smashing.



And we wrap it up together at Ivans, One last epic Ty and Kevin show. The last photo of the trip...



We have our goodbyes, they have a strange feeling. The sadness of departure but also the joy of discovery. We know a future awaits us together. Daisy is an absolute mess...



The gang is headed up to Seastar but we're staying in. Percy will be picking us up at 5am. Tears and hugs and foot shuffling ensue for no short period of time. Eventually we head up the path under the flower arch for our last time together. We move really pretty freaking slowly. At reception we pause, teetering on the edge of running through a whole other series of goodbyes. I want to, I want to never leave this place with these incredible people. "That's it!" I say, "Can't take it again. Go have fun. One Love!"

The reply, from each of them, in all it's simplicity captures the essence of the past week. It chokes me up thinking about it.

"One Love!"

[murph]

Yeah man, good stuff! I actually missed the inital thread but read the entire thang last night... all caught up!

[Guirigay]

I clearly need some help from Flip on embedding the motion GIF's!

[HuskerJohn]

Thanks Guirigay! A great read!

[garysteph1018]

Okay... the motion GIF is a little creepy, but I get it

All smiles with the latest update

So wishing I was heading there for December, but alas .... I've got another 4 months! You guys have a blast!!!

[gerryg123]

Nice .... See you soon 'pon the Rock.

[TizzyATX]

Oh wow GG, somehow missed your November post, I thought you had long finished this thing LOLOL. Well that makes me feel better about mine.

This was awesome, I always enjoy your trip reports and LMAO most of the way through even when I'm confused.

Miss you and Sweetiepie SO damn much <3 <3 <3

we sure did have a good time didnt we

[sbeth]

Thanks for taking us all the way through!