Ya Mon!

Back in January Jake and I went to a travel show one Saturday afternoon. We had a 2 for 1 pass and at the last minute decided it might be fun to go and daydream for a little while about all of the fun places there are to visit in the world. Little did we know that the $5 we spent on getting into the show would end up buying us an all expense payed trip to Jamaica. I won the grand prize drawing that day. They paid for our airfare, hotel, food, and some of the water sports. It was a much needed vacation and not having to pay for anything besides our excursions made it that much more relaxing.

So here his the low down on our trip. (Caution- there are a lot of pictures!)

This is a view of the pools and beach from the balcony of our room.

Another view from our balcony of the beautiful sunset.

We took this picture on our first night while we were relaxing on the beach. Our flight left at 1:00am on Monday morning and we didn't get into our hotel room until 3:30 that afternoon. We spent most of that first day catching up on our sleep and relaxing on the beach.

I was never hungry the entire time we were there. They took such great care of us. We could eat whatever we wanted whenever we wanted.

The meals were just the right size and so pretty that I almost felt bad messing up the chef's art work to eat it.

We could order drinks any time of day. They even had a couple of swim-up bars.

The resort had entertainment every night. Most of it was pretty good. This guy was balancing a chair on his forehead with his daughter sitting on it. Crazy!

My first taste of sushi.

It rained every day we were there, so we did a lot of relaxing in the lobby.

Enjoying a drink on our way into Ocho Rios to do some shopping.

A woman in Ocho Rios braided my hair. I only left the braids in for a day because they hurt so bad.

We spent a day at a waterfall called Dunn's River Falls. We were able to hike up the 600 foot falls. It was so much fun and so beautiful. This was my favorite day. (Jake is the guy in the black shorts in the pictures.)

Jake is standing behind me in this picture. Our guide tricked me and positioned Jake so that the water went right over his head and right onto me.

 

More relaxing and eating.

Windsurfing!

 

Reading our books on the beach.

We spent another day at a place called Dolphin Cove. We were able to see and hold a lot of different animals.

We were able to swim with the dolphins. Now I can check it off of my list of 100 things to do before I die. It was such a neat experience. We loved it!

Jake got to drive a little speed boat out on the ocean for a while. The place where the waterfall is in the background used to be McJagger's.

 

Showering in a natural spring.

The best part of our trip was being able to spend some quality time with my amazing husband.

We missed this little girl a ton and are so grateful for such wonderful family who took such great care of her while we were gone. According to them she did amazingly well.