Marley and Ninja: Having Their Cake And Drinking It Too! Trip Report - April 2012

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Day 3: April 23, 2012

I awoke to a sound so familiar, because it is a sound I hear frequently in my dreams. I knew this morning EXACTLY where I was…..I was HOME! And that sound was the sound of the waves crashing up on the cliffs outside our door at good ole Sagi cottage at Catcha. Gosh I am so happy to be home! I remember thinking the very first time we stayed here how loud the sound of the waves crashing was, and if it would keep me up at night, and then I remember crying the last day of that trip because I wondered if I would ever be able to go to sleep again without hearing that sound…..sigh, there is just nothing like it, and you have to just experience it to really understand what I mean! So anyways, back to waking up. It was probably around 7 or 8, I usually still wake up early when in Jamaica and typically before Ninja, so I try to be quiet to not disturb him, but this morning I just couldn’t wait to bust out those doors and get outside. I love this place so much I just want to soak it all up as much as I can. I told Raul I was heading to breakfast and I grabbed my rum cream (we all remember that, don’t we) and off I went, he said he would be there soon. As I rounded the bar to the restaurant area I saw Sweetness sitting at a table and I asked if I could join her and of course she said yes. So I sat down and I tried to fill her in on what happened last night after we dropped her off. It was at that moment that we both realized that I am of no use in the morning without first getting a cup of coffee….I will not make that mistake again. And after the second elementary and completely common word I tried to speak to her and could not manage to come up with (tablecloth?), we both decided to continue the conversation after I went for my coffee. So I went and filled up my large mug with half coffee and half rum cream, yep that’s how we do it, and I took a sweet sip! Aahhhh, ok now I think I can make sense. I told her how we really didn’t do much more after we left her and she said yes, she had heard us come back in not too long after, as she is in the Gatehouse cottage and can pretty much here when everyone comes and goes….no sneaking in on Sweetness, no sah! So we sat and talked and laughed as we recalled the events from last night.

Soon after Booger emerged from Libra and came out for what I can only guess was Sandie’s much needed mug of smart juice, and possibly his own as well. About that time Ninja came out and joined us at the table. I think we have discussed at great length that my all-time favorite breakfast in the whole world is Xtabi’s French Toast (I am almost positive they put crack in it), but I will have to say that a close second is Catcha’s Jumbo Johnny Cakes breakfast. And it is possibly Ninja’s all-time favorite, so this being our first breakfast at Ivan’s we both ordered it. Yum!

Jumbo Johnny Cakes stuffed with egg, bacon and cheese from Ivan’s



After breakfast we decided to go back to the room and get into our suits. Unfortunately the sea was pretty rough today but it was a gorgeous day and we decided to spend it in and by the pool at Catcha.

Rough seas at Catcha



Beautiful day at the pool



Oh and we decided to take Joe with us….however once we got ready and were headed to the pool Joe was nowhere to be found, I looked everywhere and then realized I hadn’t checked the obvious place……the outdoor shower! You know those shower shows are legendary! LOL

Joe and his shower show in the outdoor shower at Sagi



We sat by the cliffs for a while taking it all in



and then soon after we heard Jon and Tizzy come up. It was such a beautiful day and the pool was calling….Joe wanted in too so Tizzy and I let him join us on the floatie….rough life he has, right?



We stayed at Catcha the whole morning to midday just chilling, swimming, lounging, relaxing…..it was afterall, the big day, the day of the Bellyflop Challenge and we had been told to get there by 2pm, it was probably 1:30 by then so we grabbed a drink, dried off and got ready to head up the lane to Seastar Inn……