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

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So we arrive at the Westender Inn and it was every bit as beautiful as it has been described. What a great place. Sure it is far out, but if you are looking for a relaxing place to get away from it all, this place would surely fit the bill. We spent quite a nice bit of time here, looking around the property and even in one of the rooms.



Ninja walked around taking photos as did Katho.



I walked over to the water’s edge and out onto a little pier like structure out to the water with Daisy and Sweetiepie. Wow, this place is nice.



I started chatting with a nice couple about the Westender and I mentioned that I had a friend (Sweetness) who had stayed out here and that the rooms were awesome and the place seemed real nice. They agreed and then we even discussed the Living Social deal. They mentioned how this would be the kind of place they could stay at for sure. Then the wife says to me “You’re staying at Catcha, right?” And I quickly said “Yes, I love Catcha” and then I thought to myself. Did I tell her I was staying at Catcha? Oh well, she probably talked to Ninja earlier and he mentioned it, no big thing. But as we continued to talk and she said some other things I thought hmmmmmm.....oh WAIT!!! I know....She MUST be a Boardie. So I said, “Are you a Boardie?” And sure enough her reply was, “Yes!” “I’m Iowagirl, but I don’t post much!” Funny enough I actually remembered that screen name too, I think we had recently discussed something on the board so I did remember the name. So we chatted a bit more and I asked if they would be attending the Boardie Bash but sadly they were leaving the next day so they weren’t going to make it.

As we were standing there talking, someone came over and mentioned they had some snacks over at the bar for everyone. I said, what kind of snacks and the reply was “Lionfish”
I turned around so fast and said “Daisy, they have Lionfish!!!” She turned around equally as fast and said “Where?!?!?!?!?!” So we nearly sprinted over to the bar. There it was in all its glory. Fried Lionfish. Daisy set eyes on it and she smiled really big. I have a feeling this was the moment she had long been waiting for....the tables have turned, Mr. Lionfish. She got a nice plateful and I told her that even though I don’t eat fish, I would take one small piece so that I could be a team player in her quest to eradicate Jamaica of these terrible pests! lol





This was Daisy’s very first taste of Lionfish, but it surely would not be her last.

After a nice visit at the Westender Inn, the large group of pub crawlers once again piled onto the bus and headed back down One Love Drive towards Sir D’s. Everyone headed into Firewater and this is where we took in the sunset. What a great place to catch a sunset on the west end. This is a bar that is literally on the edge of the cliffs. Awesome!


(Markus is pretty excited about it)






We had more drinks and toasted to the beautiful sunset. By this time I would say just about everyone was having a really good time.



(Gerryg and his new sparkly flashy friend lol)



After the sunset at Sir Ds it was time for the bus to take everyone back home. We were the first stop getting off at Catcha and we took Daisy and Markus, and Sweetiepie and Guirigay with us. Greeting us at the gate was Sweetness and since Katho had wanted to meet her we convinced her to get off the bus with us as well. They met for a brief moment but then Sweetness was off to somewhere else I believe, so the rest of us headed to Ivan’s bar for what else? A drink!!!