In Search of Sun and Dry Sand

[julie*mango]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Marilyn</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <span style="font-size: 14pt"> Did ya just HAVE to take me to Hong Kong today???? Was the food NOT to die for there????</span> </div></div>


Ditto!

Marilyn thanks for the recommendation for this one..as always the food is to die for

[nattydreadgirl]

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(((Mokatee))) Great report!

Your food pictures always make me hungry!

[rudemonk]

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I have a serious love affair with the hybridized JA/Chiney cooking...

[mokatee]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Marilyn</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <span style="font-size: 14pt"> Did ya just HAVE to take me to Hong Kong today???? Was the food NOT to die for there????</span> </div></div>

Marilyn, I'm going to make Hong Kong an excursion on my Nov cruise thats stops in Ocho Rios for a day. I can spend my time trying new menu items...it'll be a culinary excursion

[mokatee]

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CestMoi, words cannot explain that taste. And although I aint ever did crack (Whitney even said it was wwhack) I think the shrimp was battered in it, cause I inhaled them, and everything else that was on my plate



Seveen Can you please hide me in your luggage

[mokatee]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: nattydreadgirl</div><div class="ubbcode-body">(((Mokatee))) Great report!

Your food pictures always make me hungry! </div></div>

Then one of my missions has been accomplished. Thanks

[mokatee]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: monk</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I have a serious love affair with the hybridized JA/Chiney cooking... </div></div>

My affair is blooming

[mokatee]

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<span style="font-weight: bold">After Dinner Walk</span>

After dinner we returned to the beauty supply and made another purchase. Kat wanted to sit out and enjoy the air and people watch. I’m game. We sat in an open area and watched folks as they came and went about their business. I chopped it up with a young man who was selling CD’s. I told him what I was looking for and he selected 3 of his choice picks for me. I had a good mix of music, slow, dance, and another lovers compilation. He took a picture with me, and after about 1 hour we (me and Kat) called it a night and headed back to the Grande.

Face has been purposely distorted (since I don't remember if I got permission or not, there was a lot of yes and no's in our conversation )

[mokatee]

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<span style="font-weight: bold">Room Availability</span>

Back at the hotel, we stopped by the front desk to check if anything could be done about the room. Earlier in the day we were told that we would get a call if anything became available (that call never came) We expressed a need to get the door fixed at a minimum if we had to stay in that room. In about one hour a repairman came with his toolkit

He did some screw work and eventually ended up pulling out a can of WD-40...so much for the comedy show we would have from trying to open the heavy unwilling sliding door each night.

We thanked and tipped him and wished him a good night. “Well, at least we got the door fixed,” I said. Kat responds “So I guess that means we’re not getting a different room” and we both laughed guess not. Continue to enjoy the blizzard When the noise from the TV or our cackling wasn’t loud, you could hear the roaring winds whipping between the sliding glass doors along with the whisping sound of that full blast HVAC. When ever we went outside alone we would periodically check on each other to make sure the other hadn’t blown away.

[mokatee]

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<span style="font-weight: bold">Saturday Night Live</span>

We took a stroll through the dining area to see what type of entertainment was going on, we found better options on the TV

The club was closed for renovations so some party folks took over the lobby in the tower area

Later on in the evening we walked back down stairs, turned a corner and found some live music on stage and 3 wedding parties celebrating. We pulled up a seat and ordered drinks and enjoyed the people watching and dancing.

[mokatee]

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<span style="font-weight: bold">Sunday, Our Last Full Day</span>

Sunday, and I’ve almost got my bearings together. I woke up more refreshed today than any other

Where did the time go, and the sun. Where in the heck is the sun. I haven’t put my feet in the sand, nor water and I haven’t even considered breaking out a bathing suit

<span style="font-weight: bold">Breakfast</span>














It’s a lazy day and we do just that laze around. We only have one plan for today and that dinner at the Italian Restaurant. We go souvenir shopping and I stop back in the store where I previously bought 2 sculptures to see if there was anything new in the collection….naaaa, nothing new, and somehow I resisted the impulse to make unnecessary purchases for now.

[mokatee]

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<span style="font-weight: bold">Dinner</span>

By now we’ve gotten into the swing of things and have found the motivation to get dressed up for dinner, well not real dressed up, but dressier than jeans and a T-shirt.

[mokatee]

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The dinner and the wine were very good and somehow finding space in our appetites, we managed to polish off dessert. It was a great dinner to end our last full day




Calamari


Caesar Salad

[mokatee]

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<span style="font-weight: bold">Night Air</span>
We walked outside to soak up some night air for a hot second. Each night we’d hear the sounds of the peanut roaster as we walked out to the street, and we’d stop and chat with some of the guys that we saw each day since arrival. Time has flown since Thursday, but leaving the now familiar sights seemed like we’d been here much longer than 4 nights.

[mokatee]

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We packed up our room and stayed out on our balcony much longer tonight than previously. As cold and rainy as it had been whenever we sat out there, we felt like we were going to miss it and our view that brought us much discussion and plenny folly each night. Took me 2 days to figure out that it was the water in the chillers that danced so vigorously.