Here are a couple more videos from our trip. They’re very short. I’m starting to really like the little flip cam.
Here is my dad in his workshop. It was quite startling to me to see how disorganized it is knowing how organized he is. I guess when you retire, that part of you just goes out the window..
Here my mom cooks breadfruit..
This is what the ride down the mountain feels like. I didn’t move the camera at all to get the motion you see. It’s all crap road..
After sticking around the mountain compound for a day or so, we loaded up the cars (JP came too) and headed out to the west coast, Negril. Beach Time finally!! For 3 days anyway…
The trip took about 5 hours of steadily degrading road conditions but once we got there, it was soo worth it!!
The resort was called Merrils 2 it was small but nice. The food was ok, I’ve had better. The rooms are clean. I guess the one thing that urked me was that they didn’t have fresh oj which is weird for a Jamaican resort but whatever. It’s not exactly kid friendly but they try..
Our room
pig tails by grandma
Sienna loves the beach
more little beach bunny
Uncle Baba loves the beach
that water was friggin blue!!!
they just had to run around
Dad
After 3 days at the beach, i wanted to stay but we had to get back to the mountain. The Christmas tree was waiting to be decorated..
back at roz
Sienna helps Uncle Baba
Gabby helps too
Dad just looks on
Cute little tree
I’ll be posting more video clips of this trip in the coming weeks..
For our Christmas vacation this year, we originally weren’t going to go anywhere. We bought a car earlier this year and that really took a huge bite out of our finances. As we got closer and closer to December however i started wanting to get away from New York to see my family in Jamaica.
Last year, we flew Air Jamaica. What a stinking pile of shit that airline was!! This year, Jet Blue was our airline of choice and what a huge difference!! They were organized and on time. The only complaint was that the TVs didn’t work that well in our aisle. I was hoping to occupy some of Siennas time with a little cartoon network action but oh well, the story books and stickers seemed to do the trick. She also took a small nap.
We had an early flight from JFK landing in Kingston Jamaica about noon. Below, Lisa and Sienna are having some juice before the flight.
A little juice before the flight
We tried to get her to walk around a bit hoping that she’d sleep on the flight. Here, she sees our plane and asks over and over if it was ours..
yes Sienna, that's our plane
Jet Blue
When we finally landed and cleared customs (faster than i ever thought possible), we were met by Grandpa, Grandma, Baba, Auntie Carol-Anne and Gabby.
Baba and Auntie Carol-Anne have drinks on the new porch.
JP and Carol-Anne
Rozkribben (the compound)
This is my favorite picture of the trip. Sienna looks older but is actually the younger of the two..
cousins
Goldfish share
Sienna and Daddy