Surprise! A trip report

[BoundBrook]

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The beach is deserted. Having only been to Negril In December and January, I wasn't expected there to be so little activity. It was shocking at first but after a few minutes I realized that I kinda liked it that way. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img] Yes, it is nice to have all the people walking by to look at, I always love watching the gigolo's work, I could do without the constant asking to participate in some water sports that you couldn't pay me to do... but this was a different experience. Red and I both commented on the stillness of the beach, and how different it was.

We aren't on the beach for 10 minutes before this buxom blonde is walking along the beach with her friend. Va-va-va-voom! I think to myself. Wait until the men on the beach see this one! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70377-loveeyes.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70373-kiss.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70377-loveeyes.gif[/img] Next thing I know I hear:

"Hey! I know you!" and the beautiful blone is walking towards Red and I.

You know me?!? Oh lord was I drunk and had a lebanese experience with someone other than Jazz, that I don't remember?

I stop squinting (my normal course of action to pretend my eyes are closed and I am not staring at people as they walk by [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]) and open my eyes all the way. The blonde is at the side of my chair.

"You know me?"

"Yes, you are BoundBrook aren't you?"

Me, getting all excited that I am meeting another bb member

"Yep, that's me, [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I am her, [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] uh-huh, BoundBrook here!" [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

"I am SendnUluv" [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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How nice to meeeeeeeet you. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I am amazed that I only just received my first PM from Sendn the other day, and here we are meeting. That must be some sort of BB record. If only I could meet everyone that quickly! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/bannana_purple.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/bannana_purple.gif[/img]

I introduce Red, she introduces her Mom and we chat for a few minutes on the beach. She asks how we are liking the whistling bird and I let her know we had only just arrived and were still trying to decide. Eventually she walks away, headed up the beach to check out some hotels, for future trips to Negril.

I am left sitting in my beach chair with a big ol'grin on my face. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I love meeting boardites, and nothing beats meeting them in the place that brings us all together. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

Now, in general, I have a rule. No bikini picures of me on the beach until at least 1 day browning in the sun. I do it for the good of man kind. I am pale, I am so pale I am almost see through. I am afraid that if a picture is taken of me in so little clothing, with the reflection of the sun off the water, on my body... well it just might burn the viewers retina's. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] I avoid it at all cost. However, this situation was different! I had to have a pic of the event. SendnU's mom snaps a picture of of us, and now I will always have a photo to remember the event.

[BoundBrook]

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We spend a few hours on the beach before the hunger pains get so bad there is no denying them. Also, some crankiness is setting in. We had been up for too long and now we were exhausted from laying in the sun. We head back up to the room to get cleaned up and go out on the road to eat. We go in the room and it is hot. I mean HOT. It is June in Jamaica, 'nuff said. Oh well, the fan is on, we are probably extra hot from being in the sun for so many hours... let's take cool showers and go eat.

We shower in the huge shower, with so much water pressure it actually hurt to have the shower on full blast [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img], and the bathroom gets soaked. The toilet paper is ruined and our towels are wet too. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] From now on, we had better use a lot less water pressure. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

We start to get dressed and now the room is hot and muggy, damp from the shower. It really isn't a big deal to me, but Red is dying. I can see him struggling to keep his mouth shut, to continue to be grateful for the trip. I can't stand it though, I know him well enough to know he isn't happy. I want this trip to be relaxing for him and it just isn't. I ask him what is wrong about a zillion times and tell him to just tell me. I won't get upset, I won't think he is ungrateful, I really just want him to be happy. I know what the problem is but I just want him to tell me so we can move forward.

Finally after tons of poking and prodding he says he can't deal without air conditioning. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] He is sorry. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] He will try to make it work. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] He will be ok. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

I am too tired and hungry to think about a solution right now. I say lets get some food and think it over, alright? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] He agrees, he is too hungry to think about it anymore as well.

We go out on the road to a little jerk place for some chicken. Of course there is no fire and no chef cooking. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] We are too tired to put a proper thought together and walk aimlessly up the road. We find ourselves at the hotel we stayed at in December, the For Real Beach resort. We decide to go in the lobby and see if the same front desk woman is there. We had a great time with her last trip, and wanted to stop in and say hello. Sure enough, we walk in to the lobby and are greated with ice cold air conditioning. The first air conditioning of the trip, and having not felt it until that point, I didn't know how much I missed it. I can only describe it by saying, you know on a hot night when you climb into your bed and the sheets are cool and crisp? You kind of search around for the perfect spot on the bed where the sheets are the coolest? It was like that. Ahhhhhhh! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70458-applaud.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70458-applaud.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70458-applaud.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70458-applaud.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70458-applaud.gif[/img]

We spend a few minutes there chatting with Janice before we head back out on the road. To tired to put a thought together we finally find ourselves back at Whistling Bird and just decide to eat there. We are too tired to even think about it anymore. The staff at the bird is so helpful and nice. They promptly cook us a meal and fill our bellies. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70459-hugs.gif[/img] Yum! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70459-hugs.gif[/img] I was glad to be spending some money there, I am sure they don't give out free rooms for no reason at all. I am sure they are hoping you spend some money there. I wanted to do my part, so dinner at the bird it was. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

I didn't know that I could feel anymore tired than I did before dinner, but I was. The dinner did me and Red in. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70394-sleeping.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70394-sleeping.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70394-sleeping.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70394-sleeping.gif[/img]

We head back to the room, and that is when it hit the fan. Literally.

[Seveen]

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uh oh - again
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[Reggaeluver]

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ugh... she did it again!!! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

What happened now [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70367-help.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

What a wimpy yaadie crying about the AC [img]/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[BoundBrook]

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Finally, the room was cool. The sun was setting and there was a breeze. Red and I laid in the bed and I actually had to turn the fan down one notch, b/c it was like a wind storm in our room. The mugginess was still there, but not as bad at all. We both close our eyes and start to drift off to sleep. I am not asleep for more than 5 minutes before Red is saying "What is that?" I peel my eyes open and see that he is staring at something on the wall. He gets up and looks at it, only to reveal that it is chewing gum. "Boundie, why is there chewing gum on the wall!" [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70456-eyebrows.gif[/img] He is not amused. He goes into the bathroom to get some toilet paper to remove the gum and as soon as he opens the bathroom door, a wave of nauseating odor is released.

Now my eyes are wide open and Red is nearly dry heaving. I step outside to the patio to have a look outside the window that is in the bathroom, looking for some dog poop or horse poop or something [img]/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img], but I don't see anything. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] Moments later I hear the door of the room above us open and there are 2 people talking. One of the guest was sitting on the stairs reading a book, the other had just walked outside to join him.

"Whew!!!!!!!!!!!!!" the one who just walks out says. "That was a major load! The alcohol is going right through me!"

I don't need to hear any more. I know what the mystery smell is. The fumes from the bathroom above us were filtering into our bathroom. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

I walk back into the room and Red has the suitcase open and everything just about packed.

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I don't even have a second to open my mouth before Red starts talking:

"We are not paupers, I won't live as such...." I didn't say anything. I know Red well enough to know that when he gets like this, there is NOTHING, I mean nothing I can say or do. Another way he is different from me, he is incredibly stubborn. Once his mind is made up, there is no point trying to change it. I just sit quietly, watching him pack, racking my brain trying to figure out what we will do.

The bags are packed and he announces we are checking out. We are going up the road to find a different hotel. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

Oh no! I am filled with a mixture of emotions. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] I didn't want to leave the Whisting Bird. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] I tried to explain that the room is hot during the day but really, how much time do we spend in the room during the day? Yes, it smelled bad right now, but that wouldn't be all the time. Baby, think about how nice the beach is and how nice the food was, how nice the staff is...

It was wasted breath. Red is already walking towards the front desk. He politely tells them we would like to check out. To say they were shocked would be an understatement. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] I felt awful. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] Here we are staying here for FREE and we are complaining. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif[/img] I wanted Red to be happy and I knew he wouldn't be happy at the bird so I just let him handle the check out. I felt terrible checking out, the staff was asking what they could do for us, how about a room with air conditioning? ... of course they have air conditioning. How could we think about checking out without talking to them first? They would be more than happy to accomodate us. Whatever we want, whatever we need...Once I hear of the air conditioned room I am ready to stay and I am convinced Red will think the same. Red however, already has his mind made up, he politely declines another room and continues with the check out. I am [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] but still supportitive of Red. He isn't happy and I hate that.

Minutes later, despite every single effort made by the wonderful staff at the Bird, we are on the road walking. Who knows where we will end up?

[BoundBrook]

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What a wimpy yaadie crying about the AC [img]/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]

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Poor Red. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] In his defense, Red is from the cool cool hills of Mandeville and even I thought the room was HOT! I can't blame him, it was his vacation too, why shouldn't he be comfortable?

[SandiF]

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Personally, I can't do without the a/c either...call me wimpy too. I'd be miserable as well and would've done same thing as Red... Actually, I've done it before.

Keep posting more BB (and thanks for sharing)...it's just got to get better.

[halfwaytree]

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Personally, I can't do without the a/c either...call me wimpy too. I'd be miserable as well and would've done same thing as Red... Actually, I've done it before.

Keep posting more BB (and thanks for sharing)...it's just got to get better.

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Me too!

I can do without it in Negril during the winter months when you have a nice breeze, but yes, June is another story.

I can't blame Red at all. You were there only for a short time and you may as well enjoy it to the max. Why stay if you are not happy? I would have done the same thing.



Looks like a man on a mission! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Nanook]

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Wow. Well the accomadations seems to be lacking, the smell thing woulda sent me up the road puking and everytime I thought about it I'd probably be sick for a week or more after, I have a very sensitive stomach. I've toured the Bird and it isn't anywhere I'd want to stay. Now I know for sure it isn't!
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Red certainly does seem like a man on a mission!

OK, come with it, where did you end up?

[img]/forums/images/graemlins/70384-praying.gif[/img] things get better, great story Boundie!

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[Laurel]

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[img]/forums/images/graemlins/70459-hugs.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70459-hugs.gif[/img]Boundie and Red [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70459-hugs.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70459-hugs.gif[/img]

What a BUMMER!! DISGUSTING

Much as I love it there ... I would have bolted as well ...

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But - on the High Side of things .... how wonderful that you got to meet Luvie and Her Mamma!!! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[Reggaeluver]

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What a wimpy yaadie crying about the AC [img]/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]

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Poor Red. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] In his defense, Red is from the cool cool hills of Mandeville and even I thought the room was HOT! I can't blame him, it was his vacation too, why shouldn't he be comfortable?

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Hey I don't blame him I could never do it but I have never heard that from a Jamaican, the ones I know here in FL usually have on tall pants and tall sleeves while I am in shorts and a tank top

[sammy]

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these photos had me cracking up....yep a man on a serious mission!

beach location+no a/c+ summer=not a happy camper

call me spoiled too....and that is the first question mr sammy ask when i mention a hotel in jamaica....does it have a/c?

don't blame red one bit....a vacation should be pleasureable

okay come on with it...where did you guys end up?

[Jamaicamiss]

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I've been gone awhile, so it was a pleasant surprise to find this trip report. I too am waiting with bated breath.

[jones411]

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My husband, also Jamaican, does not require A/C, but I would be very hard pressed to get him to stay in a room without a TV...oh man, a revolt I would have on my hands I tell you.

You know Boundie, I commend you for knowing and understanding your husband so well that you let him do what he had to do . As mortified as you might have been, you knew that you had to let him well, be him.

[honestd]

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Oh my.....I am loving this story. Even all the cliff hanging breaks. I laughed out loud with the smell description. I can only imagine how terrible to be awoken by such a thing.

I hope all gets better for the trip. I love the idea of a surprise trip but maybe you should leave the future surprises to be from Red to you!! lol

Also enjoy your writing sytle!