My first time out of the country
Sunday, March 18, 2012

Sunday morning our flight to Jamaica left out at 6 am.  We got up and got our stuff and headed to the airport to catch our flight.  We flew to Atlanta and then on to Jamaica.  We were greeted at the Jamaican airport to a bar and bathrooms.  We waited only a few minutes and were then shuffled off to a small van for an hour ride to our resort.  It was an interesting ride, we got to see a lot of the country side, ocean, poverty, people, etc.
When we got to the resort, we were greeted with a glass of champagne and a wet wash cloth.  We waited with another couple to get checked in and shown our rooms.  Eric and Stacy were from Iowa and were celebrating their 11 anniversary.  We ended up meeting up with them several times and made many memories.
We stayed at the Couples - Negril.  It was fabulous, I cannot say anything but good things about the facilities, people, food, etc.  This place was fabulous.  Our schedule was very much the same during the week while we were there, we got up, ate breakfast, went down to the beach and claimed our spot for the day, went to the grill and had lunch, back to the beach for the afternoon, then to the room for a shower to get ready for dinner and bed.
We didn't ever leave the resort except to go the airport.  We did snorkel, go on a glass bottom boat ride, ad night snorkel.  We became close to Milton and Jovan in the dive shop and Otis and Ricky at the pool bar. The day we went snorkeling, it had been raining and was very overcast, after only a few minutes of being in the water, Chuck held his hand up and he had lost his wedding band...Nothing we could do, so we continued on snorkeling.  When we got back on the boat, we told Milton and Jovan, and they told us they would go back and look for it.
The next morning the phone rang at 8 am and it was the dive shop, they FOUND his wedding band!  We got dressed and went down to the dive shop to reclaim his ring.
The night snorkeling was awesome, we saw lobster, blowfish, octopus, squid, sting rays, moray eel, starfish, and a few more.  It was fantastic.

This is us with Ricky and Otis and our friends, Eric and Stacy, on our last day in Jamaica.