Jamaica

Jamica was an interesting place. We had to take a hour long bus ride to Ocho Rios where we were going to hike Dunns River Falls. That ride gave us a good look at Jamaica - on one side of the road, usually the beach side - there were huge, beautiful condos & on the other was the poverty side. House that had been destroyed in hurricanes, still had people living in them. We saw under fed children and it tugged on your heartstrings.

We went with the whole group to Dunns River Falls to hike this. Neither JJ or I knew what we were getting ourselves in to. We thought we'd be hiking a trail next to or up to the falls. Little did we know, we would be hiking IN the falls. It was awesome, sadly I had to get out half way up because my shoes kept falling off. JJ would save them by diving after them, but tore up his feet in the process. But at least by getting out I was able to get some good pictures.

On the bus ride back we went past Margaritaville where a sign was posted that said "Free Bongs on Monday". We also past this sign -

Rehab Bar & Lounge: kinda ironic huh? Our bus driver hit traffic on the way back to the ship & we almost missed boarding time. We got there right at 5:30.