Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Taking our family to Jamaica; Day 2

Saturday:

We have to drag everyone out of bed this morning.  They take turns coming to our room to get their breakfast and juice from our fridge.  We head off for Ocho Rios to climb the Dunn’s River Falls and play in the ocean.  No one seemed real interested at first, which kind of hurt my feelings because I had been wanting to bring them here since our first trip.  But I think they had a good time by the time we got to the end.  We had a really good guide leading us up the falls who made it fun.  Andrew and Katie ran up and down the falls a couple times after our first trek and we found Nick and Andrew in the ocean right on the verge of where the warm ocean hits the cold river.  We walked through the market and shops inside the park and to the restaurant where we all found something to eat and got a video of the trip up as a family.  Fun.

We got dressed and left Dunn’s River and headed towards Negril and to our hotel.  About halfway between Ocho Rios and Montego Bay, as we passed a semi on the highway, there was a police officer standing on the side of the road.  It looked like he was flagging us down.  So, we pulled over and stopped.  He didn’t move, but we could see him waving at us in the rearview mirror.  We weren’t sure if he was telling us to come back or move on.  So, we just sat there for a couple minutes until Nick finally said something like, “if we leave, we’re all going to end up in Jamaican jail!” So, we backed up and the officer told us that the speed had limit changed, but Bruce couldn’t see the sign because the semi was blocking our view.  He saw all of our suitcases piled up the ceiling and, even though we told him several times that we were headed to our hotel in Negril, he seemed to assume that we were really heading to the airport in Montego Bay and leaving the country. I guess he didn’t want to mess with us. So, he just let us go.  

We found our hotel, the Negril Escape, and got checked in.  We decided who would sleep where, and everyone made a bee-line for the swimming pool where we stayed until very late, getting out just long enough to eat dinner at the restaurant at the hotel just steps from the pool deck.  

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