Jamaica Part 1

Cousin's Cove, JAMAICA !

Welcome to Jamaica Mon! Smap and I and 6 close friends (Chuck and Peggy, Nicole and Jeff, and Tim and Lindsay) decided to spend a week in Jamaica for Christmas this year. It was amazing! Being the adventurous souls that we all are, we decided to rent a guest house @ 17 miles outside of Negril. We stayed at the Cliff House in Cousin's Cove....in Hanover. This turned out to be the BEST trip and the BEST way to experience Jamaica (we are not resort people...they suck). It was so nice and the people were WONDERFULLY NICE! I am going to have to share our experiences over several posts. Nicole and Jeff have a lot of really awesome photos I will want to share along with Chuck and Peggy. So, here are the first of many. In all, with the four cameras going we ended up with over 2,000 shots. Not all are blog worthy for multiple reasons, but I will post as many as possible! No problem mon!

So, here is Peggy getting some snorkel time in at our house. We could just walk out our front yard and jump in! It was perfect.

Here is a shot of our cliff....our front yard is at the top of this cliff.

Of course I took a lot of my self-portrait style shots (I started taking them when I was in college and I just can't stop)....gotta post some of them just for Peggy and Nicole too! :-) This was taken right down from our front yard on our "patio so to speak" where we climb down into the water.

Smap is chilling out on one of the hammocks in the front yard.

Yogi, our cook and pool rastafarian.... It is hard for me to describe this fellow in one word, but I will just say, "Respect"....that was the last word he said to me before leaving yesterday. He was an AWESOME cook...cooking meals for us that you can't get in a restaurant. Watching him cook was a trip.....he would dance to the reggae all the while concocting incredible jerk chicken, rice, greens (can't think of the word all of the sudden), fresh fish, bread fruit, mash potatoes, etc... I want to go back just to eat his vegan meals (minus the meats...Rasta men are vegans)... Anyway, we had him cook for us three different nights...every night was amazing.

This is our front porch....the living space/kitchen had two sets of huge doors that opened up to the front lawn over-looking the cliffs down to the water. Then, the two front lower bedrooms also had seperate doors leading out on to this veranda....crazy nice! Five bedrooms in all...two on the backside of the front two and then one upstairs..

Another shot of our veranda looking at it from the cliffs. These are the tow double doors that lead into the yard. We could sit on the couches in the morning drinking our java and watching the fishermen checking their lobster traps.

So, that is it for today...just a teaser... a lot more to come!!!!!!!! yah mon.