gettin my groove on "TRIP report" boardie bash style--april21-may11,2013

[meinvancouver]

Hey Groove thanks for the TR, it's like being there again. Man I miss Negril...

[rinakim]

Terry ....... missing you and Janet like crazy. Reading your report makes me happy, but sad at the same time!
Love reading your report, takes me right back. TTYL ...... Rina

[groove16]

Rina, hadn't heard from u lately, thought u had moved or something....u got to know that we are missing u and larry as well....so much so that we are having talks like "well if they stay at catcha gardens, we may do a couple days there, or we can stay at negril escape or xtabi, and still have access to sea... if they stay at coco, well....." ...just things like that....lol........

meinvancouver......well u and dolly also are in our "planning" talks...it goes something like this..."if they stay at catcha, maybe we will be at the gardens or neg esp...If they stay at white sands, well, we'll see them down the beach somewhere....hehehe....

These 2 posters are the reason I come back to this board......I started coming to get info as a newbie to Negril, (and still ask a few questions prior ro my trips)...but now I come back because of folks like these...I met on of these couples on my 2nd trip in 2010 and the other on the 3rd trip 2012....reunited with both on this trip...(along with several others)...and I think I can call these people friends for life....... and there are 100's of these type of folks that post on this board....all with a love for Negril and looking for a good vibe....but the other common bond is this board....

[groove16]

the trip continued...

we get up and eat our breakfast at shields...Janet stays and suns while I walk to times square to look for a memory card for our camera...Not at times square, but i am told to go to the digicel store at the roundabout...so I walk downtown...Digicel sent me to the coral seas shop across the street above the cambio....Bingo...they are a thrift type store and have a little of everything....I need to exchange money...everytime I exchange money, I am approached by the guys wanted me to use them to change my money...I always jst point at the cambio and say, yeah, you can change money right there...no mon, I give u a great rate, and he pulls a wad out of his pocket....and I say, yeah, mon, they change money right there, come on, I show you, and laugh as I walk into the cambio....

a few pics downtown

One love drive sign



still salvaging the boat we saw earlier in the week



the china man store where I found cheap supplies


a look up the road



the corner bar




parasailing

[groove16]

I get back to shields and take a dip in the pool


we walk to yellowbird for a drink...we like yelllowbird, if u can't tell...

as we are having a drink, we see some people that we recognize

it is pineapple and sophie....they are staying at the yellowbird for like the 15th time or something and take us for a little tour and introduce us to the workers

[groove16]

As we are sitting at the bar, a little boy appears...Janet gets busy and starts digging in her bag...she finds a couple of water guns


the boy and mom


helping fill the gun


and a gunfight breaks out at the yellow bird



we had a great time..he finally got the best of me and won the battle...we were told the next day that all day long he played with his toys we gave him, would not let them go....

Time to eat and sophie showed us this place right around the corner for the box lunches i like....i like the food, but love the price....anyway, leaving yellowbird, head towards alfreds, I think merrills is next and then the path to the road....up this path is two places for box lunch..the one stop store is at the roadside

[groove16]

back at shields, we chill in the pool until it is time to go to Canoe for the Thursday night webcast and sunset....we have a couple of friends meeting us there...I call our driver, Jack, to pick us up...Jack was a security guard at Bourbon Beach on our last reach...He is now a driver...said his sister loaned him the car to get started...has a red plate and all...so we use him as our new driver for this trip



we arrive at the canoe and there are many people we know...we all share appetizers, have drinks, and the stories and the smiles and the laughter and the chatter never stops....some of the great folks
Big Roy



the band plays on at canoe bar


indy bob

[groove16]

more pics from canoe bar...

lisa, dawn, cindy


some folks at canoe

[groove16]

a dog gets fed


a mom and her 2 little boys...we give
bubbles, candy, and a couple toys



the red stripe


rob, cindy...and katie

flip, meinvancouver, and dolly

[groove16]

we get some great sunsets at canoe

flip



we were invited to a little after party wife Indy Bob and cindy, and katie...at crystal waters villas....we get a taxi back to shields...there is a little boy, about 8, in the taxi, so of course Janet gives him a few things...we dont have much left with us....after we get to shields, as we were getting our money, the driver was looking at the boys stuff....I heard him say, u dont need that, u are too old for that, I need that for my son....this boy was his nephew....I tell him, no, we gave that to him, he said he wanted it, so it is his...before janet could dig in the bag to see what else we had for his kid, he took off....

rob and lisa pick us up, and we go to the party at crytal waters...Indy Bob, cindy, and Katies place.....we have a few drinks, as cindy is a great host..we had homemade dirty bananas, beer, and whatever else u could want....had a great time just telling tales of jamaica....1st time i had ever been here, as we dont get down to this end of the beach....it is great....