We stayed at the Hotel SamSara in Negril for a week. It's a boutique resort/hotel that has an all-inclusive option that we didn't partake of. The pools/bar/main hotel overlooks these cliffs. This one is BST: Before Sun Tan.
The other half of the hotel is across the street and is a collection of cute little bungalows. This was the view from ours. (Sorry Dad, no picture of the other bungalow where Scott slept...)
Our wake-up alarm:
The pools - the hot tub where we spent many evenings is just out of the picture on the right. The nice part about Jamaica this time of year is that it's "off season," leaving us with a lot of quiet time and fewer people. We mostly had the pool/tub to ourselves in the evenings.
Our hotel offered a nice setting for this:
We sampled the local brews at a Negril bar/hut/wonderful place...
And visited with the local wildlife...
Backside of Negril Crafts Market
We spent a day driving out and back to Ocho Rios where we decided to sample some Jamaican fast food - the Juici Patty. As best I can describe, these are sort of like Hot Pockets with your choice of several fillings - we sampled the vegetable (mainly cabbage), curried shrimp (the best, in my opinion) and the "cheese" which was really like a ground beef and Velveeta-ish mixture, but not too bad.
Mine was hot. Also, we bought hats in Ocho Rios. Awesome ones.
On the way back we broke into a Sandals resort somewhere along the A1 between Ocho Rios and Negril. I really really really wanted to go to the beach.
Scott drove on the wrong side of the car on the wrong side of the road all week. Crazy former-British colonies...
And he managed to do it in this kind of traffic:
He also found a new musical instrument...
We headed out in the country on the pothole-ridden A2 road to YS Falls. It was spectacular. Scott jumped off their rope swing, but I was a weenie and scared of Leptospirosis (thanks Boyfriend). But I did do some swimming.
There were lots of older local ladies who were clearly out there just to hang out in some cooler weather. They had some picnic baskets and mainly left the old men at home. And them some other older ladies and men were doing some bathing in the water behind me here:
Some lovely scenery on the south side of the island.
We spent a fair amount of time at our local beach park (Long Bay) just on the MoBay side of Negril. It was about $3 US to get in for a whole day for both of us and afforded some of the best swimming by our hotel. And we basically had our own private stretch of beach for two days. Amazing!
We headed for gift shopping at a small crafts stand near the hotel. I was distracted by the local wildlife. Their "owner" fed them a sloppy mess of something they loved right after this. She was officially the highest person I have ever seen in my life.
And the Jamaicans do love them some Obama. There were lots of little Obama relics around the island.
And we did more of this:
Scott really got into the local groove...
After much talk, we finally decided to sample the homemade variety of the Juici Patty at Miss Sonia's Patty stand. They were so much better! And they came with her homemade sauce. And we got to hang with Miss Sonia herself. Unfortunately my picture of her and her grandchildren didn't come out too well. Scott had chicken and I had vegetable and a little chicken. So good!
Definitely a trip to remember. And no we didn't elope!
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