Pictures from my Trip

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First Row: Juici Patties (Ocho Rios)/Turtle River Park (Ocho Rios)/Rexo Supermarket (Ocho Rios)

Middle Row: Hibiscus in mother-in-law’s front yard/Roshane and Ziggy at The Hard Rock Cafe (Ocho Rios)/Dwayne Blackwood (member of the Jamaican Bobsled Team)

Last Row: Ocho Rios landscape/ Caribbean Sea/ A Donkey (see below for the story behind it)

First Row Pics:
As you all know, I love beef patties and ate about 5 beef and cheese patties while I was on vacation. I even ate at Juici Patties in Port Maria on New Year’s Eve (KFC was a madhouse, I’ve never seen so many kids eating chicken in all my life!). They were great but I hate the long lines and how the workers act like you are bothering them when you give them your order but that’s how it is at all the fast food restaurants in Jamaica that I’ve been too. I took Ziggy to Turtle River Park and she had a blast and didn’t want to leave, it’s a very nice park and I can’t believe as many times that I’ve been to Ochi I hadn’t been there before. The landscaping is really pretty and the environment is relaxing and enjoyable for both adults and kids. The picture of Rexo Supermarket was taken on Christmas Eve. I have never seen SO many people buying groceries at one time and I’ve never waited so long to check out and to get a taxi afterwards! Let me just say that groceries in Jamaica are getting beyond expensive!! We spent about $6000JA on Christmas Eve and we didn’t even have a lot of stuff and even when we bought snacks like Apple J’s, cashews, peanuts, Nuggles (they are the bomb!), and Bigga soda it was always around $3500JA!

Middle Row Pics:
I really enjoyed the Hard Rock Cafe in Ocho Rios, so much so that we went twice. You have to try the Hot Fudge Brownie Sundae. If you go, ask for Jewell as your server, she was great and so were the other staff and the view is the bomb and as you can see Ziggy and her cousin enjoyed it.I happened to drop in the Jamaican Bobsled store in Sangster International Airport Sunday while waiting for my departure and Jamaican Bobsled Team member Dwayne Blackwood was in the store signing autographs, so you know I had to ask for a picture.

Last Row Pics:
I love taking pictures of Ochi and of the landscape as a whole in Jamaica, it’s beautiful and it comforts me while I’m away. However, the donkey pictured above was not a part of the landscape that I loved! LOL! Here’s the story, the donkey belonged to a couple down the road from where my mother-in-law lives, it’s actually a pet for their young daughter (I know, a donkey as a pet sounds so utterly ridiculous but hey who am I to judge) and they employed someone to see after the donkey on a daily basis. Well, the caretaker is a known crack head and has a reputation for leaving the poor donkey tied up all around the neighborhood in various spots while he goes out and does God knows what. This particular day that I took the picture the donkey was tied up across the road from my mother-in-law’s house and no one was too pleased about the situation because they knew that more than likely the donkey would be there over night and the donkey would staying braying and causing a ruckus in the middle of the night (yep, I was in the country!) Needless to say that after a late night walk up the road to visit friends my sister, husband, and I returned to see the poor donkey surrounded by a pack of barking dogs. He was braying, every dog in the surrounding lanes (roads) were barking, and no one could have been getting any sleep. My husband had already threatened to turn the donkey loose if he was still there by nightfall so of course he walked right over and untied the donkey and we slept in peace! Unfortunately, we found out the next day that the donkey surfaced in another area and those residents spent the whole night listening to the “animal symphony’, they said they have no idea who let the donkey loose. We just laughed to ourselves.

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