Thanks Tizzy!!! The Turtles are a tough act to follow, read all your reports and the helped motivate meOriginally Posted by TizzyATX
You SURE did!
Please do
Thanks Tizzy!!! The Turtles are a tough act to follow, read all your reports and the helped motivate meYou SURE did!
Please do
A lot of people were introduced to Negril when Point Village was an A.I
Thanks Kaycee!!! Thanks for reading!So far, so good! Love that view! Please continue
Here is a couple of other shots taken around the resort. One thing you will notice is there is almost noone else in any of the shots! PV is very quiet but we LOVED it. Your in Negril and it is easy to get anywhere you wanna go!
Looking one way down the path in front of Condo
other way on path, towards bloody bay
looking out on the water from the beach, around the corner to left about 400 yards away is Hedo
Quiet beach! I think there was one other family on the beach this day, family of about 6. plenty of sand to yourself
So, once we had caught our breath after the first look off the balcony we realized we better get our @sses in gear, Latoya was to be back and pick us up so we cound head out, get cash changed and get food and booze!! Clothes come flying outta the suitcase jammed into the dresser, or hung up! Ready to go, wait we got some time to chill and have a drink!! Thank god Joe Cool picked us up a case of Stripes!!! Pop a couple stripes, out to the deck take in the surroundings and toss back a couple of stripes each, so far a good day! Not even noon and I am 4 Red stripes into my day
Our driver arrives back at the Condo to pick us up right on time and we are off, first the Cambio. Latoya suggests hitting the Hi Lo as there is a Cambio there and since its in the store it will be that much quicker, sounds good to me! We arrive and head in, my wife is uncomfortable to say the least, and is not sure what to think about the offers to change our money for us, and of course if we wanted ganga or snow! I laugh to myself and head into the store pulling the new bride along with me. She seems nervouse as the Cambio is really busy today and she doesn't like the feeling she is having, I suggest she grab a cart and her and Latoya head in and start shopping. While I am changing money Latoya stays with Shellie and wanders through the grocery store keeping her company and making her feel much better! The line up flows quickly considering we are running on Jamaican time and in no time I am helping with the grocery shopping. Food... Check, Booze....Check, now lets get outta here!
Gulp $19000+ Makes a uy feel rich, if only for a short time!
Next gotta hit the Digicel store and pick up a cell, this is completed in not much more than about 15 minutes and we are back on the road heading back to PV! We thank Latoya for all the help and pay her for her time and she is off! She has another fare and has to get a move on if she is gonna make it! We haul our food and drinks up to the room and unpack, at this time our previous 5 days with about 5 hours of sleep each night has caught up with us. We needed sleep and we needed it right now! We decide a couple hour nap would not be a bad idea as we still wanted to go out to eat somehwere and also wanted to try and catch sunset! We grab a couple of hours of ZZZZZ's and are up and attem at about 3pm, amazing what 2 hours of sleep can do for someone! While where are we gonna eat? Well, we decide we are going to grab the supplied mountain bikes and go for a ride to find somewhere I have hear of and grab some food and Bevie's!!!! Now I know what some people are thinking, are you crazy for riding BICYCLES!!!!! Actually it wasn't that bad, just have you wits about you and you will be fine! It was a great ride and we were really enjoying it, we finally arrive at Alfreds and decide thats where lunch/supper will be from tonight! Unfortunatly I cannot remember what we ate, but I do remember it was quite tasty and we had planned on eating there again but as you all can probably understand you can't make plans in JA. Now the only real issue with riding a Bike whilke on holidays in Jamaica is, when you have not ridden a bike in a couple of years, Man does you @SS hurt!!! This is further compounded by the fact that at the wedding my drunk ass buddies had picked me up and where carrying me around the dance floor and up for drinks. This is all fine and well, but getting down of a bunch of guys shoulders proved harder, and I got dropped on my @SS!!! Once combined with riding from PV to Alfreds and back I was sore!!!! Well Grab the drinks and head down to the rock pools to catch the sunset with a bunch of other folks who are staying in the Complex. We are officially HOOKED ON NEGRIL!!!!!!
Thanks for doing this walleyed! We're doing the transition from AI this trip so I'm looking forward to your insights and thoughts on the trip... And it really does help to pass the time till we go
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Thanks for sharing, beautiful pictures & congrats on wedding!
Back to the sunset, the PV complex has a great little spot where there are a couple little natural "rock pools" that people suntan around during the day and every evening a large group gathers there for sunset. Usually there are a around 12-20 people. Now this first night we were the "newbies" and had not yet met anyone, but we were told by the owners to make sure to head down there. We kinda felt like outcasts but in little to know time one of the folks made refrence to Canadian Football team jersey I was wearing and next thing you know we are pulled into the group and making new friends. We are offereed brownies, "not the special ones toinight" and I think a glass of wine from one other couple. We decline and thank them all, the party goes on for about an hour after sunset and most couplel are making dinner plans and plans on where they will be headed. At this time I am exhausted but not yet ready for bed! We grab a six pack outta the freezer and the cooler, throw in some ice and decide we are gonna head out and explore the quiet grounds. Tomorrow is our first whole day in Negril and I wanna have my bearings, we have not yet even found the beach and I know that is on the wifes agenda. We wander around in the dark, find the regular beach, keep wandering and next we find the Au natural beach that borders Hedo. This is where we meet the head of night Security, a young man named Foyan who turns out to be a really nice you guy with a big heart as big as his smile. Funny thing as I am typing this I just recieved a text from Foyan seeing how we are doing! We finish our exploratory walk and retire to the patio to finish off a couple more stripes and hit the hay. Day one has been a long day, it started almost 40 hours ago when we woke up the day after the wedding, we have only had about 3-4 hours of sleep since then and we are beat! Tomorrow will be a new adventure and we cannot wait! Goodnight all!!!!
Tuesday morning comes and we roll outta bed, finally a night with more than 3-4 hours of sleep. I feel human finally and am ready to venture out and see what Negril has to offer today, but first must have morning coffee! Brew a pot, crack the Rum Cream and the day is off to a really great start. Since we had bought groceries we decided to have a good breakfast before we go out walking, we have a big Breakfast (Streaky Bacon, Eggs, Toast, more coffe and even more Rum Cream), on the patio patio of course just taking in the great view. We get dressed, grab a couple of Tig's from the fridge, a couple of water and head out to find our way to Long bay! We wander aimlessly until we are approached by a nice older lady asking if we are lost, we bashfully say we want to walk the beach she says to follow her, away we go. She takes out to the Au Natural beach and points us over to Hedo and says straight through there! Now I am far from a prude and my wife is a little more reserved than I am, but I really must say no showering after a hockey game or after a workout at the gym could prepare me for all the casual nakedness we walked through!!!LOL!!!!My wife was almost hyperventelating and had a deathgrip on my hand, Between people bending over to pick up packages of smoke, or the eyefull's of gravity over time effected flesh she was on the verge of meltdown! Later we find out it was during a particular lifestyles week, so there was even more open affection day or night and more nakedness than usual, either way it provided a good chuckle to everyone who heard the story for quite sometime when I would describe the look on her face, LOL!!! We wander the beach, hitting stands, stores you name it. Grab a dink here then there and so one down the beach. It seems like no time has past and it is already lunchtime, I am hungr and lightheaded from the stripes, I look at my Negril map and realize we have only made it about 2-2.5 Km. We stop at Foote Prints in the sand and grab lunch, it was good but not memorable so I cannot say really what we had. We chill out with a couple more stripes and decide we will head back to the Condo to take in a couple hours of beachtime and maybe do a little snorkling, its about 2pm and we have a few hours to kill before supper at Ivan's. This is the one I had planned as a special dinner for my wife and I and she was super excited. I had played it down a bit cause I stillwanted some WOW factor when we arrive and take our seat, I had requested the"nicest" table they had as it was our Honeymoon and they did not dissapoint! We overlooked the cove just above the hotub, was a great night, great food, great view, and great service! I had the Seafood pasta, and my wife had steak and mashed Potatoe, we also shared a couple of appatizers. Here's some photo's!!!
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