Ya mon!

I’m back from Jamaica! Katie and I had a great time! I’ll post a few pictures soon once I get them. Highlights:

--Dunn’s River Falls: A 600 foot waterfall that we climbed up/in! You walk down to the bottom at the beach, and then they have a guide that leads you up in groups. You scramble up, in the water, over rocks, through pools, etc. with the water flowing past you the whole time. It took us over an hour to climb all the way to the top! Everyone in the group holds hands so that if someone falls, they don’t fall too far. Our group had a bunch of kids in it, so the guide put adults in between the kids to help catch them just in case. Katie and I became adoptive parents of two cute kids from Indianapolis, Jillian and Jenison.

--Horseback riding in the ocean: We went through a place called Hooves that uses rehabilitated horses. We started out with a tour of an old sugar plantation that had all sorts of neat artifacts from as far back as 1500 that were dug up on site. Then we got on the horses and rode for about a half hour down to the beach. After a short snack break, we got back on the horses and rode into the ocean! The horses actually run in the ocean with the water up to their chests. It was super cool!

--Reading on the beach: The main reason I took the trip in the first place!

--Jamaica Night at the resort: Delicious Jamaican food like pepper pot soup and jerk chicken, along with a live reggae band!

--Jamaican driving: An adventure in itself. First, they drive on the left side of the road. (Although in lots of places it barely deserves the name “road”.) Crazy passing on a very small two lane road, random potholes, speed bumps, unpaved sections, and goats made for a very interesting ride whenever we went anywhere.

--All the guys called us “pretty lady”, “sexy”, “beautiful”, etc. everywhere we went. We decided that we need more of that so from now on Carl may only address us using one of those expressions.

--We both appreciated the laid back Jamaican attitude. No problem mon!

Lowlights of the trip were that I had a sinus infection, (I got it the day we left,) so I pretty much had a headache the entire time, plus the weather was cool by Jamaican standards (70s and cloudy/windy) for most of the time. But we still managed to have a blast!