Magic in Little Bay

[Laurel]

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MOLDY ROLL ... [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img]

Nuh Nuh ... Biscotti is meant in the most endearing way ...

[jazzbythec]

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GB,
Nice pictures.. The children are so lovely..This is the start of an important journey.. Please continue..

[wandaweberg]

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Thanks Biscotti

Love all the shots but especially the goats! And “proud uncle” holding baby!!

[Green_Biscuit]

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Hi Jazzbythec, Wanda...thanks - more later [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[n.c.rootswoman]

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Green_Biscuit:
[QB] Some of my favorites....the good uncle





[img]/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] You got me cryin <<<<<Uncle>>>>

[Green_Biscuit]

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Hopefully, this isn't too disjointed to understand. If anyone is confused, please let me know.

One thing I did forget to say about the June trip - I got stopped in customs....one woman, five days, what did I need all that luggage for??? Luckily, the gentleman in customs was chatting with me as he was eying everything with suspicion, and asked what I did for a living. When I told him that I was an interior decorator, his eyes lit up. He produces the business card of his wife, who is a seamstress that specializes in household items such as drapes, pillows and such. I am all aglow about the idea of having a "Jamaican workroom". End of baggage search!

[n.c.rootswoman]

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Laughin at Laurel,
girl you are crazy fun. yep

Wow G_B how great was that chance meeting!
Makes you know in your heart that you are
on the proper road in life aye.
Can you just imagin the possibilities of your
own line all made in JA.!
you got my wheels spinnin
Seen her work yet?

[Green_Biscuit]

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So, all summer, my husband and are are following the progress of Purple Rain Guest House closely. I am on the phone, discussing the ever-changing progression, prices and so on...helping to figure out what to wait on, what HAS to be done. Finally, I feel the time that presentable enough photos can be taken is near. I go to book my tickets. Long story short, due to a number of factors including available flights, I will be leaving on my birthday, Sept 7th. Just my kids and I will be going. Now, before you go and feel bad for my husband (at least about not going to JA), understand that he travels every week, almost without fail, Mon-Fri. Usually, that means getting home at 1 am on Sat morning, and a sunday evening flight to where ever the winds are blowing that week...

In the case of Sept...there were two consecutive weeks he was booked in Seattle, across the country from us. That would mean, it makes zero sense to come home in between. The other weekend, he would be home for approx 36 hours, or he could drive two, and see his brother in his home town that he hasn't seen in a year or so. So, you get the picture? As it turns out, Mr Biscuit and I have the SAME flight out, at least to our connection....and he doesn't get home until two days after me, in spite of a two week booking in JA....

I, of course, never really go to bed...I slept about 45 minutes....before the alarm goes off at like 2:30....it was a 5 am flight.

[Green_Biscuit]

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Originally posted by n.c.rootswoman:
[qb] Laughin at Laurel,
girl you are crazy fun. yep

Wow G_B how great was that chance meeting!
Makes you know in your heart that you are
on the proper road in life aye.
Can you just imagin the possibilities of your
own line all made in JA.!
you got my wheels spinnin
Seen her work yet? [/qb]

No, I haven't, but I hope to next trip! The funniest part though...among many other things, I had a juicer, and two blenders....how do you suppose I would be explaining those away?? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img]

[Magician]

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Nice pictures and story GB.

Who would have though you could do some 'networking' at Customs!

Ready for the rest...

[Seveen]

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it's so nice to see this face - my protector - and you know i've been waiting to get an update about Purple Rain ! ! loved the picture of you and Cug at the Opening Bash - sexy sexy - and what i could see of Purple Rain looked lovely

looking forward to checking out the website when it's up

[Green_Biscuit]

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Thanks Magic, Seveen....it has taken me so long to write this report, I am surprised anyone is even interested.

In fact, it has been so long, and I have so much going on, that details are escaping me....this is certainly not a " Sunday I got up and 7 and went to breakfast" report....not that that is my style anyway.

[SistahD]

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Nice shot ((GB)))

[Laurel]

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Biscotti .... we are grooving with your style ....

Just loving the fact you are sharing this joy with us!! However if flows!

[Green_Biscuit]

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The trip down was long (2 small children in tow) and fairly uneventful. One funny thing....when It came time to fill out the forms on the plane, I get out the pen I have thrown in my bag....it is silver ink...I am looking around to see if I can borrow a real pen, and noone seems to have one....everyone around me seemed to be sharing three. I finally get the forms all filled out. When we get to MoBay, I wait in the line a long time, and finally they open up another line....I would have been one of the first to go through. However, they tell me that the airline has given us the wrong form (the questions looked exactly the same to me....) and I need to fill out a new one. So, aside from the fact that there is no where to write, and my daughter is telling me she has to use the bathroom, I still only have this silver pen. The woman that is out working the lines tells me it is okay. I get to the window, and the man at the window tells me it is not.....well, you get the idea....then downstairs....BoyBiscuit is in a stroller, and I am trying to figure out how I am going to manage my carry-on, my daughters (she doesn't want to carry it right now, she is tired) and the stroller down those steps. No chance of any help, as no one else is going down them right now. We get there, slowly and carefully. At least my bags are all ready on carts when I get down there. The two porters immediately head for the "Declare" line....I said, whoa, wait, what are you doing? They said you want the other one? I said yes, and they looked at each and said, ok....then choose the line carefully....thankfully, that all went okay too.

That was a good thing, as I am carrying, among other things, all the sheets and towels and such for Purple Rain. We had priced them in Sav-la-Mar in June, and it was clear to me that I could bring better quality for a better price than he could buy them down there. Then there were the dozens of other things....yes, my children play with those big chrome kitchen spoons at the beach. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Anyway, we get outside, find Cug, or he finds us really, when we walked by him on the way to our usual meeting place. He and Courtney are laughing at how many bags we have, and can't believe we aren't stopped. Do you know that even an "infant-in-arms" (not a purchased ticket, no seat, just taxes etc) is entitled to two bags and a carry on?

Somewhere on the way to Little Bay, I begin to breathe....ahhh. My daughter is chatting about "Our Jamaica"....we have an "Our Florida" too, when we visit my in-laws....DWL.

I am so grateful to see the house, and over the moon about the work that has been done, even on the outside. It looks wonderful!




The rest of the day is fairly quiet and uneventful. Cug surprises me with a birthday present, and I was so touched that he did that for me. We have dinner, and just hang out and talk, and crash. That was the earliest I have been to bed on my birthday in a long time! This is my room:



You can't see the 3/4 bed right under the camera lens. That is supposed to be for the kids and Momma gets the big one....guess who BoyBiscuit slept with the entire trip?