Team GRITS, spacers, Greg, swiss cake rolls, and RICE AND BEANS!!

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I'm back!!! Continuing Day 1!

So, we get showered and changed, all dolled up if you will. We walk out to the office and while it's never a good idea to ask your hotel to get you a cab, I decided to roll the dice. Stick with me, you'll see why in a minute lol.

First driver walks up and I ask him, "Fifteen bucks to Pushcart?" and he says that he can't do it. Cool, thanks anyway! So the second driver walks up and I repeat my questions. He replies no way, drivers can't do it for less than twenty. So I said thanks, but I can't do it for more than fifteen!

So we walk up to the road and an empty route taxi stops. I say, five bucks to Pushcart? Of course he says no, I need ten. So I say thanks anyway and turn around. He yells out, "Wait! I will do it for six!" Cool. So we get in and make our way to Pushcart. When we get there, we're a little early. So C and I are sitting at the bar and he proceeds to tell me that I insulted those taxi drivers LOL. Well I didn't mean to! Anyway, C gets a Red Stripe and I ask the bartender what would he recommend. He makes me some frozen banana alcohol type thing. Pretty good, I must say. While we were there, a girl ordered one of those drunken coconut things. WOW! I think I'd be under the table if I had one of those.

We're at the Pushcart to have dinner with some folks y'all may know...Rob and Lisa! WOOHOO! Also, this would be the official 'joining', if you will, of TEAM GRITS. Of course, we also were blessed with the company of another boardie...the same boardie who christened us TEAM GRITS. I haven't asked him if he wanted to be in the report, so I'll refer to him as Boardie X, for now. I liked Lisa right away, even though she is Canadian* (now don't get mad, it's not terrible. She does like mayo and cheese after all). Rob is super funny and of course I like anyone who laughs at my jokes! C monopolized Gary and Steph (he's still Gary at this point, his alter ego GREG hasn't been born yet) and Boardie X. We did take some fabulous pictures before we ate. Let me post some right now for you.


Now, I can't stress how wonderful the company was! We laughed and joked and were loud and carried on. It was wonderful! It didn't feel like we were strangers whatsoever. I knew, KNEW, at this point that our vacation was going to be epic.

On to the food...which you will find in my trip report will be important. I hate I didn't take pictures here of the food! Many times during the trip I'd only remember to take pictures after I'd taken a couple of bites, or just plain forgot to take the pictures! UGH! Terrible! Anyway, I had the jerk sampler. It was delicious! This is what I always get. This time I remembered more food on the plate than before, not complaining however! The festival was so good and the jerk was delicious. The food was just outstanding. Couldn't have started out the trip any better.

This would be the end of Day 1....or at least all of Day 1 I'm going to tell you MUAHAHAHAHA!