Juli,

We will no doubt be a group of four on the beach that is hopefully bronzed and had enough appleton rum by the time you arrive to sustain us for another year! If we do hook up I could give you our takes on what we did for the week.

Only 18 more sleeps for me!

Johnny, Great advice on watching the cab drivers in front of the hotel. Believe me when I say I'll leave the driving in Jamaica to the cab and bus drivers. I'll stick to the b-o-o-o-ring driving in the good ol' U.S. of A.(smile) Your right about the Jamaican people giving thanks every day for what they have. I wish us americans could be more that way. I planon bringing some clothes along on my trip to give to some one who might need them. I may just give them to the maid and see if she knows of anyone who needs them.

Beth, I can't wait to meet up and hear all about your Jamaican experiences. Hopefully you won't have had too much Appleton to remember. If so, oh well, you'll still know that you've had fun. I wonder if they ever cut anybody off at the bar? I'll be looking for ya on the 23rd (at night) at the bar. I'll just yell "where's Nebraska." The first time I was in Jamaica I met this lady from Atlanta. She had never met anyone from Nebraska before and I think she was fascinated that we didn't still travel by covered wagon. She was a hoot! Anyway, every time she saw me she would yell "hey Nebraska!" Enough of my rambling, I'll see you there!

Hey Nabraska, You realy serious that you gave up the covered waggon?

When did this happen?

Girl, you are sooooo funny. Those few lines had me laughing for a while.

It felt good.

Thanks for offering to carry something down. Every little bit helps.

By the way. The list of places was given to you, so as to be able to choose whichever one you fancied. I like to now my options when in a foreign country and I think that you do too. One day you will get to see all of them. You are right, the mountain bike ride down through the narrow winding roads is very exciting and full of action and fun.

One day you will get there.

Yeah Johnny, we got rid of the covered wagons a couple of years ago. Thanks again for all your help. Like you said, it's nice to know all of your options. You've been so great about helping everyone out with your suggestions. Keep up the good work and take care.

Juli, I wanted to reply to a previous post regarding touring hiring a guide. My wife and I stayed at Sunset for our Honeymoon 5 years ago. We met up with another couple and rented a car for the day. We drove to Dunns River Falls which took about an 1hour and 45 minutes then we went exploring in the town of Ohios Rios. We ate lunch at a locals restaurant and had a chance to really experience Jamaica. The scary thing was we got lost on our way back to the resort. Luckily a local helped us find our way back. A friend of mine went the following year and decided to pay a taxi driver a $100 to show him and his girl friend around. He had a blast and said it was money well spent. I will be going to Sunset Beach NOV 24th - 27th. There will be 51 of us so you probably will not be able to miss us chances are I will see you there.Mike

Hi Mike, Thanks for the info. Yo were really gutsy driving yourselves to Ochi. Are you nuts? I bet that was really scary getting lost. How did you manage to get 51 people to go at the same time this year. That's great! I had a hard enough time getting 6 people's scheldules to coincide for the trip. We'll keep an eye out for ya although I'm losing track of all the people going (it doesn't take much.) It sounds like there are so many fun people going we should have a ball!

I just got back from Sunset Beach and they have a "Margaritaville night" on Sunday night. We played games and they promoted the monday night trip to Margaritaville. There is a bbq night on Tuesday night. If you do excursions they usually get you back to the hotel by 5ish, so you wouldn't miss any of the evening activities. They have water volleyball and beach volleyball every day. There was a water sports regatta on wednesday on the beach and friday there was pool olympics at 3:00. again if you talk to the folks at guest services they can tell you which days are best to go.

The have bingo on saturday, but that's the day we arrived and left, so we didn't get to do that. They also have tennis lessons most days also. There's a board in the lobby that they post the daily activities on. Enjoy, enjoy!!!

Juli I agree it sounds like a lot of fun people are going so it should be a blast. I can't wait. Is it Tuesday yet? Five more days and counting......

I ran this trip as a fund raiser so that helped me get the 51 people. The proceeds from the trip will go towards families in need in our area.

Take care,

Mike

Mike, what a great idea for the fundraiser! I thought you were going to say that's how you raised the money to go on the trip. Glad to here it was for people really in need, not just in need a a great trip. Can't wait to meet you all. I'll just listen for the people with the funny accents. You know midwesterners are the only people in the whole world without accents.