We are back from our Jamaican Vacation and had a GREAT time. We left home (June 5th) Saturday afternoon and headed to Atlanta which took a little over 3 hours. We stayed in a hotel right near the airport. At this hotel they had the option of paying a little bit extra and leaving your car there and their shuttle would take you to the airport. So that is what we did and that was the BEST decision we made. We would have been so lost trying to park in the Atlanta airport and it probably would have cost us too. We got up about 4:30a.m. Sunday morning, got ready and headed to the airport. As we were sitting in the terminal waiting to board the plane, they announced there would be a bit of a delay due to a mechanical problem. Well that's never good, Rob hates flying so this didn't make him any more comfortable, and in my mind I was a little nervous too. The delay was only about 30 minutes and they said it was a problem with the batteries in the plane. We had a smooth flight to Jamaica and it only took about 2 hrs. 22 min. which wasn't bad. We landed and had to get through the airport and get our baggage and then find our transportaion to the resort. The resort was only about 15 minutes from the airport which was great, on our honeymoon when we went to St. Lucia the resort was over an hour from the airport. We got to the resort around noon and this resort was beautiful! We were staying on the Preferred Club side of the resort which was really nice b/c we had a few more amenities that the regular side did not have. The service was great and the staff was really nice.
When we got there and checked in, our room wasn't ready which was fine. We had packed our swimsuits in our carry on, so we went into the bathrooms and changed and headed to eat lunch. We ate lunch and then proceeded to get a cold drink and head to the beach. Our room was ready around 3:00 so the bellman got our bags and showed us to our room. Our room was gorgeous, we couldn't have been happier. We even had a little mini bar in our room which was really nice.
Once we got settled in our room we headed back down to the pool area and met some really nice people. There were people there from everywhere. We met people from New York, Vancouver, North Carolina...etc. Around 6p.m. or so we came back up to the room and got ready for dinner. I am so sorry but when we headed out to dinner that first night, I forgot to take my camera so I didn't get any pictures that first night. We ate at Bordeaux which was the French restaurant and it was very good. Rob tried the lamb, he has never had lamb before so this was a good time to try it and he really enjoyed it. I got a filet which was pretty good. We didn't stay out too late our first night b/c I wanted to go ahead and get up the next morning and get out in the sun. The drinks at this resort were GREAT!!! I enjoyed a strawberry dacquri, a mudslide, a margarita and a miami vice. Rob pretty much stuck with Red Stripe the whole time, that is the only beer they had at this resort, he would occasionaly have a fruity drink.
Each afternoon around the same time, it would pour down rain so Rob and I would go grab some lunch and then head to our room for a little bit to rest. Once the storms would pass we would head back out to the pool. There was a lobby on the Preferred Club side and they always had yummy snacks out and drinks. One day they had some steamed mussels, which were so good, so we put some on a plate and headed to our balcony to start watching the sunset.
We saw some beautiful sunsets while we were there. We would always go up to our room to sit on our balcony each evening to enjoy the sunsets. Here are just a few pictures of the sunsets.
Sorry this post is getting long, but we were there for 5 days so I have a lot to post about that I want to always remember. So I don't bore you and so this post doesn't get too long, I am going to put our trip into two posts. We took so many great pictures. If you read this blog and you want to see all the pictures from the trip you can send me a message and I will send them to you through snapfish. I will be posting all the pictures on facebook. Alright on to the next post!
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