Cruisin '05-Some More

Wednesday, August 23rd

Today when I woke up, we were already docked in Montego Bay, Jamaica! As the excitement build up, I took my shower, got dressed and called my sisters' room. They were halfway dressed so we would meet in their cabin. As usual, my son out partied everyone so I had to awaken him to let him know that if he didn't get ready soon, we would leave him. He promised to meet up with us at breakfast so I headed to my sisters' deck. Once there, we called our parents and told them to meet us in our normal spot for breakfast. We would all be heading out to town together since it's foreign territory. Gotta watch out for the parents, you know?

Anyway, we took a cab into town and the first thing we got out of the way was the souvenir shopping. My snap-happy ass immediately zoomed in on a couple of shops so we headed over to them. Once we picked up some treasures for our friends we headed over to Margaritaville (oh buddy!) where the place was already jumpin and it wasn't yet noon.

My parents chilled with us for a bit and then headed back to the ship. Not long after, the place got crunk! The deejay was Jamaican-born and Tennessee raised so his music was an interesting mix that please everyone. Both of my sisters are a lot more outgoing than I so they didn't hesitate to take to the stage for the booty-shaking contest (yes, you read correctly). And guess what? My sister Donna won the damn thing. Her prize was a gift certificate to their gift shop so she picked up something for us, which was nice. We also played TV Trivia where the deejay would play tunes from various television shows and whoever answered the most won a tee-shirt.

Between the dancing, singing and whatnot, we also received free vodka shots which enabled us to stay nice!!!!! Overall, we had a freakin blast during the six or seven hours we were there!

We headed back to take care of some more shopping and BOY did I rack up on some liquor. Not the punk-ass stuff either. I'm talking Appleton Estate Rum, Wray and Nephew Overproof Rum and the like. I've stopped drinking the cheap stuff a long time ago as my tastes have changed dramatically. Five years ago, I would have been satisfied with some Bacardi but not now. I also remembered to pick up the banana rum that TD had requested along with some Jamaican hot sauce and spices to take home.

By the time we re-boarded the ship, we were famished so we dropped our things in our cabins and headed up to lunch. Later that night, more casino-fun and clubbin'. Yeah Baby!!!!!!!!!!!!