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June 29, 2005
Jamaica - Days 5 - 7 (May 20, 2005 - May 22, 2005)
May 20, 2005
Things started to wind down as Greg's family departed today. :o/ We wished that they could have stayed longer, but they had to come back to go to Sarah's (Greg's niece's) high school graduation. In the morning, Jo and I met up to take a scuba refresher course. The guy that did the course (it was just for the 2 of us), Wayne, was super funny. :p Hee hee. We had a good time trying to remember how to dive. We saw everybody as they were leaving from breakfast. It was funny. My sister was like...what are you doing? Hee hee. Jo and I had breakfast after our course. It was fun times. Jo and Deanna had a dive scheduled for Friday afternoon, which didn't turn out too well for Jo...she had a panic attack when she was about 60 feet down. :o( We spent most of the day hanging out with Luci, Austin, Chris, and Beta. It was pretty fun. :o) We ate in the main dining room for dinner (the beach party was cancelled due to rain), then called it a night.
May 21, 2005
My parents, sis, and Matt all left this morning. :o/ Jo and I were gonna go diving this morning, but Jo didn't wanna go due to her experience yesterday afternoon. I decided to go anyway (might as well...I was already there). I got to the watersports area a bit early, so I hung out for a little while. Finally we got our gear together and got out to the boat...we went about 50 yards, when the guys decided to stop and check on the engine (they said something didn't sound right). The next hour was spent bobbing in the water. After awhile, they decided to call for another boat to take us back to shore while they tried to fix the boat. I got back to shore, just in time to see Greg go out sailing with Chris & Christine (Luci & Austin were on another boat) on the catamaran. I waited for awhile in the watersports area...until they got back. Then I walked over to tell them what was going on, and decided that I didn't want to hang around and wait all morning...plus it was a 2-tank dive today. Since I'm not supposed to dive 12 hours before I fly (24 hours to be safe...and we leave tomorrow morning), I would only be able to get 1 dive in even if I did go. That would mean that I'd just be sitting there, bobbing on the boat, while the others take their 2nd dive. Just didn't sound fun to me. So I had the guys take me back out to the boat to grab my stuff. :p We spent the rest of the afternoon hanging out with the gang. Chris wanted to take pics of us at sunset, before dinner. We scattered to get cleaned up, and then met up again at Luci & Austin's.
The sunset tonight was perfect. We got some awesome pics. Had a great time goofing around. We then went to dinner at the Lemongrass, which is the Thai restaurant. :o) It was DELICIOUS. Hee hee. They had this appetizer tray that was absolutely awesome. We all wished that we had found it sooner, 'cuz we would've eaten there more. :p Jo and Deanna came by as we were finishing up. I got to take a pic with her and her braided hair. Hee hee. Mighty fun times were had. Perfect way to spend our last night in Jamaica.
May 22, 2005
We got up super early this morning (like at 5:45) to get ready to leave. The bellhops were supposed to pick up our luggage at 6:30...but they decided to call at 6:10 to ask if they could pick up our stuff. We were like...ummmm...no? We couldn't understand why they'd say 6:30 when they really meant 6. Anyways, we quickly got ready, and set everything outside by 6:15. We saw Chris when we were walking towards the dining room to grab some breakfast. Then we ran into Jo and Deanna in the lobby area. Yuppers. Our bus left at 7am for the airport. Our return trip was way quicker than our trip to the hotel. I think it only took a little over an hour, versus 1.5 hours. The line for American Airlines was ridiculously long...so we were there for awhile. The luggages were hand-searched (barely, but they were). Immigration took awhile. After all that, we still had some time to browse around at the shops to buy liquor and other memorabilia (we got a couple of picture frames). Also got some food to eat. Mmmmm.
The flight to Miami was uneventful. We got there pretty quickly. And we managed to run through Customs relatively fast too...even with having our bags checked in the scanner. But it seemed like we had to walk miles before we found our next gate. We quickly got something to eat...and then soon after, it was time to board. Talked to my Mom briefly...she told me where they had left the car at the DFW airport for us to drive home (they were on the way out to Hong Kong...and had a short layover in Chicago). We got to ride on a 777 on the way to DFW, which was pretty fun. We each had our own screen, so we could tune in to whatever movie/show we wanted to watch. Wheeee! Hee hee.
When we got to DFW, Greg and I split up and I went to remote parking to get the car, while he stayed and waited for the luggages. Surprisingly, the luggages took a longer time to appear than me coming back with the car. Hee hee. We dropped Jo & Deanna off at Jo's apartment, then went on home. We said hi to kitties...unpacked a little, and stopped by my team's hockey game. :p
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