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

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Day 7: April 27, 2012

I woke up this morning with a smile on my face (much like I had every other day of this trip). Today would be a really good day, and a somewhat sad one as well. Today was the day of the Boardie Bash! I was so excited that I was finally going to be attending a Negril.com Boardie Bash rather than just watching it on the webcast or hearing about it on the board! I smiled again when I realized that I would be meeting EVEN MORE boardies today, which was hard to imagine since in the last 6 days I had met more boardies than I have on any of our previous trips combined. I was excited to party with my already newly found family as well as the other boardies who I had yet to meet! And based on the fun I had been having with all of the boardies I HAD met so far, I knew this was going to be one hell of a party. I also knew, however, that tonight would be the last night for some of our friends and that would mean goodbyes would be coming and that made me sad, but I quickly put that out of my mind and focused on all the fun that was to be had. Ninja and I woke up and headed out to breakfast where Sweetness was saving our usual table for us. I got my large cup of rum cream (oops I mean coffee, of course)

This morning’s breakfast: French Toast with warm banana at Catcha (doesn’t this look delicious? It was....but still not better than Xtabi’s)



After breakfast we hung out around Catcha for the remainder of the morning until it was time for the Bash. We got dressed and ready and hopped on the scooters to head down to Canoe. I checked with Mauvette to make sure that the special treat we had ordered for the party had been delivered to Canoe and she confirmed that it had, so with that we were off....

We rode our scooters down to Canoe and as soon as we arrived it was not hard to see that the party was already in effect! We heard some greetings being yelled out to us as we pulled up and I was already happy to be there. We entered and saw some of the usual suspects already inside. First order of business, Ninja ordered us some drinks and we toasted to those who were there and those who would be soon arriving. The Steel Band was set up outside and already starting to jam. So many introductions and laughs and stories and fun was had this day. Here are a few photos from the event:









After a while of fun and laughs, Rob announces it is time for the Group Photo so we all (eventually) make our way down onto the beach and line up, there were several versions of this photo taken that day, here is the one we managed to get



After the group shot I asked the kitchen if they could bring out our special treat. We had ordered a special rum cake just for the Boardie Bash. This is what we refer to as the world’s BEST RUM CAKE (ever) and I had offered to purchase one and bring it to the bash back in December when I first started the roll call thread. I thought it would be a good way to entice folks to come LOL

Mmmmmmmmmm rum cake



Not even sure what time it was or how long we had been there but at some point we got a call to meet Booper and Jizzy back up at Catcha for dinner and drinks. It was their last night and we knew we would be closing down Ivan’s for that! So I told GG and Sweetiepie and Markus and Daisy and since by this point we were all staying at Catcha it just made sense to head back there for a nice special dinner. Ninja and I hopped on our scooters and GG, SP, Daisy and Markus followed in a van. We decided first to stop off at Just Natural to get a detox of some sort lol, so we did.

Our sweet rides parked outside of Just Natural



While we were there, everyone ordered up some mighty delicious juices and enjoyed chatting. It began to rain so we waited it out there and I ordered some pumpkin soup which was excellent. GG got some much needed detox and also a very loving foot rub for his swollen feet and soon after the rain let up and we headed on to Catcha. By that time I believe Booper and Jizzy had already enjoyed their dinner so we got a table for Ninja and I, Guirigay, Sweetiepie, Markus and Daisy. After hearing several recommendations for the Seafood Linguine from everyone who had ever ordered it, I decided to go with that, as did Daisy. Ninja ordered the Pineapple Ginger Chicken and Guirigay ordered the dish that was almost just like Chicken Lola (but with snapper I believe). I don’t remember what anyone else had but I do remember how amazingly delicious the Seafood Linguine was and that much like the Xtabi French Toast I will now vow to eat this dish as much as possible! LOL

Here are some photos of the meal (except mine, apparently I ate it too fast to take a picture hahaha)