The 4th pre-trip installment... (I just can't help myself!)

Heart racing, tummy flipflopping --- exactly 3 days from now the pilot will be telling us to stow our belongings and prepare to land; Jamaica will be visible through the windows of the plane. I’m all but bouncing in my chair. Think I WILL start bouncing tomorrow. I’m literally shaking…wait…that may be the coffee…should get another cup in case it’s not. Will do my best to pretend it’s Blue Mountain. I'd like to thank Tizzy and poolguy and all others posting morsels of Jamaica – you’re all that’s getting me through the next 3 days. And of course Mr. Chow. Your…ahem…descriptive tales are interesting as well as the witty banter and other commentary taking place between updates. To all your followers, I apologize that my report will not be as … ummmm… passionate as yours (although the trip itself will be, I don’t think I’ll be kissing and telling-who wants to hear about an old married couple anyway? LOL) While I’m calling folks out, I was absent from the board for a long, long time. Sometimes too painful to read when there’s no vacation in site for a LONG time, but one of the first reports I read when I got back was Clarity and Markus’s report. I LOVE LOVE LOVE your writing style and the everything I read in your reports. There were several occasions a tear (or two…or five…) fell from my eye as I read. Your report really struck a chord with me as did the personalities of the two of you which shows through in your writing. There aren’t many on this board I *wouldn’t* want to meet but you two are definitely at the top of the list. I know a report like that was a labor of love and I thank you both from the bottom of my heart for doing it. Beautiful. GerryG123, you were my next report to catch up...going way, way back (I had 3 years to catch up on!). I laughed more times than I could count. I will NEVER EVER look at a donkey (or more accurately, a donkey pony) the same. Congrats on the weight loss by the way – you’re looking fantastic!

OK, I really should be working. Shouldn’t you be, too?