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

[drummerboy13]

Right back at you Guirigay!! You and Sweetiepie are great people and had me smiling everytime I got the pleasure of hangin with you guys. Thank you for your interest in my story!! I promise to share it with everybody, being that you all have shared so much with me. This trip for me was an exercise in rebuilding me...and I think it got me off to a great start. You don't even know, Guirigay, but your little battle trying to swim against the current at the falls is part of that process. I tried to take a lil something special to learn from each person I met. I did just that!! Whether it was watching two people(Clarity and Markus) that are madly in love with one another, play in the waves from my upper deck/chillspot at Seasplash, or your current experience at the falls.....you fine people gave me hope. My trip report will have a few pics that I feel are important for you guys to see, but I need to get a new laptop in order to throw them on here. I can't do it on my work computer. As they say....SOON COME. I have nothing but love for all you guys and I really mean it........IF YOU EVER ARE COMING THROUGH KC, YOU HAVE A FRIEND THERE!!! I would love to show you around!!!! Peace be with you all!!!!

[indybob]

I am laughing so hard . Tizzy are you my long lost daughter? LOL keep up with the fun GG INDY CINDY and miss ya sweetiepie....

[TizzyATX]

Yeppp Cindy it's all TRUE We've established that there's been some sort of mix up! LOLOL

[spottycatz]

Michael, me ol' mukka!! Surely we will be the same room together in the not too far future, at which point in time we'll see how it fits.

[Guirigay]

Thanks everybody.

Tizzy - I don't know HOW IT'S POSSIBLE you can't remember it!! Better ask Booger, he actually had the last word on this one!!

Drummerboy - really glad to hear this, I'm looking forward to it. Just remember - I'm an idiot...

Sweetness - get out your tissue, we ain't done

Jim and Donna - I've seen the pics from Canoe post bash on Friday. You ALL are crazy!! And fun!!

Hey Cindy - the reunion was heartwarming! Promise I'll kiss Sweetie Pie tonight.

[Guirigay]

The party is in full swing when we arrive but we give it a little push. A lot of folks who met last night are happy to be back together in a quieter environment. I’m glad it was rockin’ last night because it kept me going and having to talk loud probably helped keep oxygen running to my brain, but I’m happy now to be able to talk. It’s our first chance as a group to have that easy going chat about. The cocktail party on the beach with all your old friends – from yesterday – and your new ones from today. We’re reminded of that “best friends for a day” sensation of the pub crawl in February only this is taken an order of magnitude higher and refined by the belief that this “ain’t just for a day”.

It’s just a terrific mishmash of overlapping conversations and people standing in big groups where you can turn any of four or five directions and drop in on some great dialogue. It’s almost too much. Talking to someone you’re enjoying the hell out of and hearing a voice behind you that makes you smile and looking over the shoulder of your partner and seeing someone you’ve looked forward to meeting for months. All senses firing on hyperdrive, mind shifting threads of consciousness at a rapid rate, all lubricated by the incredible offerings of Negril.

Sweetie Pie and I have a great chat at a table with Sweetness. We plant some seeds. I have always admired her tag line Preach Peace/ Live Love / Blessed Be. It is not a tag line. She DOES preach peace and she definitely lives love. I pray that she be blessed and offer mine as needed.

The band is terrific, one of those various assemblages of talented Negril musicians finding a way to make a living. Earl Lockes is singing. He remembers us from the Boat Bar and NCB in February. Just a great voice. An excellent trumpet player as well. Good enough to stop me in my tracks in a talk with Sweetness and Sweetie Pie and turn around to watch him riff a solo. I end up buying a CD of his, have to admit I haven’t had a chance to listen yet. Will need to do that soon now that I’m thinking about it…

We have all the boardie musicians in the house and I try to pull them together. I talk to Jim and he says, “Let me know what you need!” See why people love SeaSplash? Rasta Stan, MuzikDoc, DrummerBoy and Brasi are not nearly as enthusiastic! They’re having a good time and don’t want to work, very understandable. Rasta Stan makes an astute observation about following the incredible band that is playing. The whole operation fades away…

Sweetie Pie has a nice talk with Rob exploring the options of running a business remotely from Jamaica. He is very helpful. Says it’s the easiest way to stay down there long term. No shingle, much fewer hassles.

[Guirigay]

We’re back to the beach and the world’s greatest cocktail party continues. Sweetie Pie gets hit by a haggler. He steps up to her holding out a hand as if to greet, and when Sweetie puts her hand up in return he whips a string bracelet around her wrist. I laugh and as he reaches down to my wrist I pull it back. “No, no,” I say, “not me! But I’ll pay 500 for the bracelet you snuck onto her wrist!” He presses on, inquiring on my left handedness. He has worked this routine a thousand times at least, I’m thinking, just this year. I am resistant but it is futile, I end up giving him another 300…

At one point I’m just about overwhelmed. I can’t believe I’m standing here with all these people. I realize I have the camera in my pocket and I slip away for a few moments to check my head and to try to capture the afternoon.

I head up the stairs to the bar and catch Sweetness looking at me. Do you see the little devil in our wonderful angel? Jim is in King of the Party mode.



I just got access to these pictures this morning. I laughed out loud when I saw this next pic. I now present photographic evidence of my prose. Please notice the Ricardo’s and Mertz’s– Mrs SpottyCatz with a wry smile, Indy Bob in preparation for a classic rail lean, Lurker Cindy is a blur and it appears Mr SpottyCatz is preparing for a game of grabass.




Crap focus and I STILL love this one. Indy Bob in his full on, SpottyCatz in his trance dance, maybe my favorite Cindy face of the trip and Rasta Stan on the move…




Rasta Stan chatting up Lisa. This is Rob 98% of the time at any webcast…




Not much in the way of color tonight but the sunset is always beautiful in Negril.




I can’t believe that we’re all here. Did it really happen?
















There are plans afoot to head to a comedy show out at Moondance Cliffs. Chicken is coming to pick us up!! Things are pulled together, sort of, and we TRY to make our way out. The exit from SeaSplash is as comically slow as the ride in from Mo Bay. Turtles indeed. I see Chicken and give a holler to match my smile. “The coolest man in Jamaica!” says Chicken with his trademark smile, “I love this guy!” He gives me the boxer 1,2,3. Dang, hello orbit…
Eventually, all who are going get on board and we head out. Supposed to be going to Moondance. Yeah, right, umm, I mean left… We’re in Jamaica…

[indybob]

Okay now you know why i do not take time to spell or type correctly it is easier to use slang. And get back to dancin!!!!!!!!! Oh tizzy my dawta you must come to Indy and meet the family.LOLLOL luvs ya all. I.C. keep the story a comin

[Sweetie pie]

Haha! you guys are too funny with all the double fact checks! Love it! So nice to read about your adventures from different perspectives. Sweetie pie, that's a great shot of you on the roof

Thank you Eden. Guirigay is not half bad of a photographer.

[Sweetie pie]

My sweet Guirigay, I love you, I love the way you love everyone on this grand adventure. It certainly has been an amazing journey with amazing people.