Day7: Thursday April 27, 2012 cont.
NINJA's 2Cents
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On this isle Family came,
Though blood and birth all not the same.
On this journey Together we walked,
With vivid dreams and fathomless talks
From Divine heights to fearful woes,
A family built a family grows.
Set on the backdrop of azure blues,
Vibrant Substance and sunset hues.
One Love, one goal and much to share,
in our Negril Family all gather here.
As we took in the growing night dinner was full of a sense of spirited conversation. The wave of talks was like the ebb and flow of the night waves crashing on the cliffs with robust laughter and love. Even now as I try to remember the conversations from that dinner I can’t but I simply remember the feeling of sitting in such a wonderful place in time and enjoying the world around me. Nothing else was necessary at that moment. Food...CHECK, Friends...CHECK, Conversation...CHECK.
As dinner ended the bar called to us more importantly the Booper/Jizzy contingent needed drinking companions. This would be our last night as a group of rowdy drunks. And soon we’d GuiriPie and then us and Hubbity soon after. I didnt want to dwell but sometimes you cant help realizing you have to go back to reality. I shook off the my solemn mood and we paid for dinner and quickly shuttled to the bar.
The party was in full swing and when we joined it amped up to 11. We took our niche at the inside end of the bar and drank and talked and drank some more I busted out a Cuban for some consumption. Soon we were all singing, it was liek the jamaican version of Cheers where everyone knows your name even if its your boardie name.
Now I have to correct my wife on one thing. Booger moved us out to the cliff edge (And yet again my wonderful Peanut butter compadre Pooper decided to jump in. If you look closely at the group photo you can see her hair is wet.) , we had set off our (Shauna’s) 10 lanterns the night before as practice so now it was time to do it again. We had a couple of miss lights here and there and one or two with holes but we got most if not all off without a bang. The correction comes here we took the group photo as the last thing we did before we called it a night. I only know this because my camera has the time stamp on the photos in iPhoto. We hugged tried not to cry as we would be 4 down tomorrow. We promised the quad group we’d party on in there absence.
side note: Shauna’s was this night or was it the night before that Tizzy was reunited with her iPhone. See now if everyone would have just let me use the iPad to do a search we’d have found it days ago. However I think it was fitting she lost it day one and found it on the last day
When the night was done and my head hit the pillow I thought of future trips and friends on the west coast, across the pond and to the north. Yet another reason to visit Cali,Texas or the UK, or win the lottery so we could open our own compound somewhere and eat peanut butter drink rum and red stripes, think of negril and since almost more than half of us are artists just create. Clearly I was drunk and probably high.
On a side note I hear there is some land open in Waco for my compound (ok that was in poor taste but its friday and frankly I’m ready to call today the weekend).
Before I fell asleep I took some time to listen to the crashing waves and to think of what tomorrow had in store it would be our only full day at catcha where we didn’t plan on going ANYWHERE. I also thought of how happy my wife was and how I love it when she is.
On this isle Family came,
With mirth and ardor our hearts set flame.
The sun did rise and New days end,
our time spent made than friend.
With mated Heart and kindred soul,
a fundamental truth became our goal.
One Love, one heart and much to share,
in our Negril all Family gather here.
