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    Get settled in and decide to call Bentley so we can arrange a time to meet up so I can give him his Old Bay. He decides now is a good time and comes over. Walking with Bentley thru Catcha after just meeting up a few seconds earlier is a sight to see. He bleeds such energy and his animation exchanges are really fun. I take him down to the pool to say hi to Sandie and than we stop by the bar where is meets a handful of people and delivers his normal routine. He had everyone cracking up, this pic was taken a few seconds later.
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    He says it might last him till the end of December. He was out the last time we ate there, so no crab cakes to be had. Bring your own Old Bay is a safe bet to getting some crab cakes.

    Later that night I ended up getting my Red Stripe bottle stuck in my koozie. It was designed for a can and not a Red Stripe bottle and it did not want to come out. Check out that team work.
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    They even had to take a time out as all previous methods had failed.
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    They staff here likes to have fun and the occasional practical joke gets played and sometimes you get to join along. One of them hit me up to offer up 100 dollars to who ever could get the bottle out. When she announced it she left out the part that it was Jamaican dollars. That bottle was out in record time and it was time to pay up. You should have seen everyone laughing when I pulled out the Jamaican $100 bill. Might look not so funny from the outside, but if you knew the crew you would understand.

    Garfield the chef hits the bar and says I can have some pumpkin soup if I want some. Seriously, just bring it next time. I am addicted to Pumpkin soup.
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    ((love))
    Preach Peace / Live Love / Blessed Be
    ONE LOVE
    Sweetness


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    Man, what's the matter with me. The whole reason I even thought about taking this trip was because I knew I had a friend in town. Pulp Fiction moment.....

    Before even heading to Catcha in the morning I hit up Marshall to see if Sweetness was in her room. She was staying at the Gardens as well and he directed me to her room. I made the announcement as I was walking up so as not to catch her in a special moment. I was met by her soon to be hubby Kevin at the door. He had a big smile on his face and we shook hands and he informed me that she would be right out. Got to feel the guy out to make sure he was a good fit for my girl Sweetness.
    I am proud to announce that Mr Kevin is a good guy. Wish I had some time to kick it with him and have a few beers. But he had some bigger things he was working on.

    She walks out and her face was a true Kodak moment. I wanted to stay and shoot the $hit but I moved on to give them there space and after that is when I made my initial walk over to Catcha Falling Star. Already miss you dear.....
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    I think that's the furthest Bentley has been away from the crab house since he was a little kid ....

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    Loving this!
    Oh how I miss the gang at Catcha!

    I hope you told Garfield and Sanjay that they better have Pumpkin soup everyday when we are there in December....they owe me!





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    LMAO....you are so right about Bentley.....he is a special negril legend mon. Great guy!!!!
    Miss you too Mr. but I bet we see you sooner that you think......love to Sandie and Brodie too. Lovin the report......go mon go
    Preach Peace / Live Love / Blessed Be
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    Just finished filling out the Global Entry paperwork. Takes for ever but I hope it works as buzzing thru immigration and customs would be really nice. It's a $100 non-refundable fee to do it.

    back to the trip.....

    So after closing the bar down at Ivan's I was hungry and decided a trip to Miyard was in order. We grab a cab and make our way down there and I order the usual egg and cheese sandwich. As we are sitting there I notice a guy chatting up Sandie and was thinking it was they typical "I know that guy" hussel. I didn't recognize him and I tried to convince Sandie that it was indeed a hussel. She wasn't believing me as she was convinced, however she is rather naive so I wasn't having it. She lightened the mood and as I would find out later in the week he did know who I was. That story will follow in the next coming days. I hope I didn't make too big off an a$$ of myself. Couple beers later and it was time to retire to the Moon cottage.

    Taxi'd back to Catcha and when we hit the room we plugged in the laptop next to the daybed on the porch and proceeded to enjoy each others company as well as a few more beers. It was a nice time just the two of us enjoy some quiet drunken time to ourselves.

    I had told Sandie on the plane that I wanted to spend as much time as I could at Catcha as our last two stays involved way too much off site activity. So Monday we were at Catcha pretty much the whole day. Once Tuesday hit I had the itch to grab some pizza and hit the beach.

    Tuesday rolls around and we decide we'll walk up to Seastar to grab some beers, eat some pizza, and swim. We ate pizza and drank some beers but never made it into the pool. I wanted to hit the beach and after the light thin crust pizza we set off en route to Seasplash. The place was dead but Rasta Dave was hanging out there. He is no longer employed, but still hangs around from time to time. In fact nobody was staying there at the moment. A huge change from when Jim was there doing his thing.

    This was the quietest I have ever seen the beach and the higgle was low key and non-intrusive. After chit chatting with Dave we decided to walk the beach and hit some more bars. We ended up at Sun Beach after I had to prove to a higgler that this was not my first rodeo. I looked over and saw Dennis the Menace standing there and I said "see over there, that is Dennis the Menace." His tone completely changed and we were soon at the bar enjoying some time with Dennis.
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    I saw a guy that I thought was Ras Husmo so I approached him and asked him his name.
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    It sure was and we spent about an hour talking to him about art as Sandie is an artist and it was an enjoyable time. Sandie took a picture of him as she likes doing portraits and I cannot wait for the outcome. She is bringing it to him in December and they are going to exchange pieces. I'll post the painting when she meets up with him next, it's a great pic and it should turn out great. Little did I know he used to be a contortionist and he entertained us for a bit with his moves.
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    After getting a thorough art lesson from Ras we decided to head back to Catcha to finish the night out. We ran into the owner who was there to oversee the improvements going on and he offered up a tour on the two new rooms. Sandie was bare foot and he insisted that she go put some shoes on. She pleaded with him as she could walk on hot coals but he would not waiver. So she runs off to get some shoes while Harry and I head over to the new units. A lot of guys were knee deep in their work so we had to navigate around this and that to get to the top. The balcony from Sky is where I took this picture.
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    As we head down I am following Sandie and Harry and Sandie decided to step into fresh concrete that had just been smoothed out. Her shoes of choice were flip flops and you can only imagine what happens with wet concrete and flip flops. She proceeds to try and take Harry with her but my cat like reflexes, which are quicker than Ninja reflexes, save Harry. Sorry Babe, but saving the old guy was the right thing to do.... It reminded me of the commercial where the grandpa is smoothing out a sidewalk and his grandkid decides to walk thru it. I felt horrible that the guys would have to smooth out my wives imprint into their new path, but they were chill and I made it up to them at the bar later. I have pictures to remind me of the new rooms, she has some bruises and cuts. Lesson learned for her to never wear flip flops to a construction site.


    We close down Ivan's and decide to head over to Ahhbee's to check it out. He is still open so we have a few beers and than all of us head next door to play some pool.
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    Ahhbee is a great host and ensures we have a great time at his place as well as the pool place. We stumble back to Catcha and I am pleased that I have an after hours spot so close to Catcha now. I'm rarely ready to go to bed at 10PM and now Ahhbee's presents another option. This wouldn't be our last time hanging with Ahhbee.

    Another late night chilling on the porch enjoying each others company on the daybed listening to some roots reggae. This daybed becomes a favorite spot and Tiz I now know what you mean about your spot.
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    Janet read rasta dave was working at seasplash. we looked for him while we were there, couldn't find anyone who knew who we were talking about.
    we met him on our last reach, he was so much fun, although that was the night the rum punches punched back, lol...
    2009 trip http://www.negril.com/cgi-bin/discus.cgi?pg=prev&topic=196641&page=272185

    2010 halloween---no TR

    trip 2012
    http://negril.com/forum/showthread.php/5589-Trip-report-sept-1-14-including-pelicanbar-catcha-legends-samsara-pubcrawl-etc

    trip 2013
    http://negril.com/forum/showthread.php/8323-gettin-my-groove-on-quot-TRIP-report-quot-boardie-bash-style-april21-may11-2013

    .trip 2014
    http://negril.com/forum/showthread.php/11962-Trip-report-Boardie-Bash-2014-best-trip-yet

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    I'm enjoying this report very much...

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