Until next year

We got our "eviction" notice Tuesday morning so we were packing up as we were watching Election Day coverage.

Waiting for the "sad bus" to come and take us to the airport.

At it was another rainy day so that made it easier to leave.

Andy has one last Red Stripe in the Montego Bay airport.

The sunset as we entered Kentucky.

Allison picked us up from O'Hare and we all went to Margarita's for dinner before going home to unpack. This was the night's special - barria steak quesadillas. Really good and I now have lunch for tomorrow.

Last full day in Jamaica

The landscaping crew made another flower heart we saw as we were leaving breakfast.

More rain is on the way so we enjoyed the pool as long as we could.

The morning activity at the pool bar was bracelet-making. I made a Christmas one but then I saw skill beads...

and knew I would need to make a bracelet for L.

This is Dylano from the recreation staff. After we made bracelets he played songs and danced to them. He's using an A-1 sauce bottle as a microphone. Creative, for sure, and lots of fun. I'd love to have half of his rhythm.

Shots we didn't ask for. I don't know if the bartender (Lloyd) was using us as guinea pigs or what was going on. He made us, and others at the swim-up bar, a few surprise shots.

When he wasn't giving us shots, hw was dancing. He does a good Michael Jackson impersonation.

The rain came in while we were at lunch. Fortubately, someone covered our pool bag with a towel but by time we went to pick it was soaked.

We went to the gift shop and used up the rest of our resort credit (mission successful). This was all we saw of a sunset on the way back to the room.

Sunday in Sans Souci

Another rainy start to the day. We enjoyed omelets for breakfast. The chef sings gospel songs while she cooks (every day) but very fitting on a Sunday morning.

Our breakfast view.

Another day of rain on and off. We tried to sit at the pool but sometimes we had to seek shelter in the beach bar.

We have $200 of resort credit to spend. Andy bought his coworkers some hot sauces and we got some T-shirts. We still have $130 left to spend but we have our eyes on a few things.

We went to Sunset Beach (the au natural beach during the day) to see the sunset. Lots of clouds but it was still pretty.

Came back to the room to get ready for dinner and I broke my readers. I have another pair but we could use some of that resort credit to buy a pair or two.

Serenaded by Clive and his saxophone jpright outside our room.

Dinner was at the Pallazina restaurant. I had the Jamaican special, Southern-fried chicken.

Tiramisu for dessert was pretty and tasty.

Ya mon, it’s Saturday

We were surprised at breakfast with violin music.

It rained on and off Saturday morning but cleared up and we spent the majority of the day at the pool.

We weren't going to play movie trivia at the swim-up bar but we did ... and we won! This art, called "Music of the Spheres" by Von (?) was our prize. I googled it and didn't find anything so we're not sure what it is.

Hard to beat this beach view for lunch.

Dinner was at Casanova, the fancy restaurant.

All the appetizers were seafood so we ordered the "salad for two." The waiter said it's quite small for two people so he brought us two.

My entree was chciken stuffed with mozarella with a jerk sauce and mashed potatoes. Andy had the steak. Both were very good.

Can't leave without dessert. This is sort of a chocolate creme brulee and some fruit flavor. Tasty.

Pretty lobby as we were leaving the restauarant.

Jamaican Friday

We took a walk this morning around the resort and found Crackers. He says hello and goodbye. They had two Macaw parrots in a cage next to him but we couldn't get them to talk.

And we saw this interesting duck, I think? Not sure what the two smaller birds are?

Drizzled on and off tody but we got in some decent pool time. I finished the novel I had been reading (for months), "Best Friends," and started this Colleen Hoover novel, "Regretting You."

For lunch we had Jamaican-style pizza (essentially NY style) and a cute chocolate mousse for dessert. That flower that looks fake is actually real. I check them everytime we're at the buffet restaurant.

Dinner was a gala in the front lawn. We watched them set it up all day.

We brought the food back and sat on our patio. It did start raining a bit. You can see people in this picture with their umbrellas up at the table.

Desserts are always good. From top, a fancy cream puff, a chocolate chip cookie, a pecan pie and a red velvet cake.

A nice view of the post-dinner entertainment from our patio.

Halloween in Jamaica

We started Thursday with a "pre-breakfast" room service delivery. The coffee here is very good.

We had nice sunny day for the pool.

We played Halloween trivia (didn't win) and then we carved pumpkins.

One guy brought pumpkin-carving tools from home. He might be taking this whole thing a little too seriously.

We did OK with the knife they gave us. It looks like a jack-o-lantern that a child would make.

We saw this heart of flowers on our way to lunch.

We went to the Asian restaurant on the beach for dinner. These were the appetizers. We got our entrees and Andy decided he wasn't feeling well (second time he's done this at dinner here) so we left half-way through with no dessert. It wasn't my favorite meal and I only had chopsticks to eat with anyway.

We stopped by the Halloween costume contest on our way back to our room. The had flame throwers (dancers?) performing outside the restaurant ...

acrobats during the contest...

and costume judging by category (sexiest, funniest, etc.) These are the guests vying for the sexist costume. Catwoman, on the far left, was deemed the winner.

For the funniest group, the workout couple won. The four in Flintstones costumes looked good but "Barney Rubble" introduced himself as a caveman. They deserved to lose.