PGW - that is a very good offer - should've suggested it sooner!
Saw PGW on the beach yesterday afternoon, he was making his last stroll. He’s gone today – but get this – he’ll be back on March 5th, the day before I leave!
Today is Ash Wednesday, so things are cut back a pace here in Negril, traffic on the road is down and it feels a bit like a Sunday. One of our group (a 2nd year Newbie) got really excited for a while last night when she mis-heard that today was ‘Hash’ Wednesday.
Tonight is the ‘Repeat Guest Appreciation Dinner’ at White Sands. Put on by the Moo-Youngs, who own and operate White Sands, it is an annual event consisting of a scrumptious buffet and potent rum punch. A very high percentage of the guests at White Sands are long-time repeat customers. Tonight, as an added bonus, ‘Mistaken Innocence’ will be performing a gig at poolside. It’s gonna be hot, hot, hot. Photos and video later.
I mentioned Dude, Francis’s baby Macaw. We visit with Dude everyday – he’s a character, only three months old, he has another 80 years to live (unfortunately, probably in a cage). Francis tells me he’s going to name the next baby – who we can already hear peeping in the hutch - after Bob Marley. Dude is tame, having been taken from his parents when very young and hand-fed for a month. I feed him a banana and rub him under his wing. Even though Dude is not that big yet, he can eat a whole banana – he stores it in his food pouch at the base of his throat.
I call Dude a ‘him’, but we don’t know if he’s male or female – you need a DNA test to sex a macaw. I look forward to my visits with Dude, it’s hard to believe that a three month old baby parrot could be so cute and already developing a personality.
Francis is a big fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs; he watches Leafs games on his computer and he is up on all the stats and the players. Me, I’m an Ottawa Senators fan. As I feed Dude the banana, I repeat slowly and clearly, “Leafs Suck! Leafs Suck!” Dude tilts his head and says, “uuck, uuck.” Maybe his vocal chords are not yet developed enough to make the ‘S’ sound, but I figure, in a few weeks, he’ll have it down pat.
Here’s a video from the Boat Bar on Friday (late – I know, but I got so much things to do). The long-haired dude in the video is my buddy Shrek and the guy leaning against the tree is Hugh, who hangs out at White Sands, but went to New York on Sunday to pursue the love of his life (she bought the ticket). Good luck Hugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4FpAvpvk2M
The place was packed. There was a good party vibe going on there and a tight Reggae band provided the vibes.
Yah, just another crummy day in paradise
