Jamaica rundown: successes and mistakes

Almost immediately upon our arrival in Jamaica we started making a list of all the trip's successes. While it initially began as a "Successes" list, there were a few mistakes that had to be acknowledged. They all came late in the trip, though, and none of them were too monumental. Mostly they were just funny (except for the two "Epic Fails")

And now, in as best chronological order as I could recreate, I present Girlcation in Jamaica.

Successes:

• Staying at the Ritz on the cheap (thanks, Em!)


• Fletcher the cab driver


• Ralston and his amazing pina coladas











• The electric violin band


• Beachside pilates


• $7 omlette




• Christian Reggae music


• Leanna's discovery of the sauna and cold plunge













The hobie cat adventure







• Soft chairs and towels, beachside and poolside




• Pizza and Ruffles, The River Wild, The Holiday, Two Weeks' Notice, and Step Up 2


• Tennis




• Bocce Ball and Cricket













• Richard the Cabana Boy
• Monday morning: everything about it


• Outrunning the Jamaican storm


• Not being on the hijacked plane
• Leaving the Oreos in the drawer


• Leaving the Australian Gold "sunscreen" behind




• Jamaican pirate store
• Finding a cutout of Usain Bolt in the airport

• Catching our flight in Dallas



Mistakes:

• Hostage situation at the airport (EPIC FAIL)


• Australian Gold "sunscreen" (another EPIC FAIL)




• Fletcher's busted up Toyota Camry


• Jamaican Muesli


• Pool-side pina coladas, the slushy mess that they were





• Missing the Reggae Dance class


• $16 omlette


• letting (some would say I invited...) hobie cat man touch my leg


• the Oreos


• $3.50 water


• the mossy rope [shudder]


• Saph the tennis instructor


• the $1 bellman tip


• forgetting to get the sisters a ride to church, then dreaming all night about asking for their forgiveness


• Dominos pizza


• Sprinting with all our luggage to catch our Dallas flight

All weekend we kept seeing "signs" that we were meant to be in Jamaica, from the LeBron James Sprite bottles to the Sauna and cold plunge to the beachside Pilates, to dancing in a restaurant barefoot to "I Will Survive" ... the only word I could think of all weekend to describe it all was magical. The weather was perfect (we arrived at the airport just as a torrential downpour began...we liked to think Jamaica was crying over us leaving...), the water warm, and the quotable quotes flowing freely.

It was really hard to be back at work yesterday, especially the wearing clothes part, but alas here we are.

Kind of hard to believe this was us 48 hours ago...