Thursday, November 29, 2007

Is there a place for the hopeless sinner,

Well Bob Marley asked the question, and i have the answer...

The Caribbean Holidaze. It is a Super-inclusive trip to Jamaica with a few bands that my boyfriend and i really love to see. They are not above Panic for me, but I guess i can say that i would travel to Jamaica to catch a few shows.
So, we leave December 13th to the 17th. Flying back will be so hard, but for what we are doing, i am super excited. So, in order to get a cheap(er) flight, we are changing planes a number of times, but still get into Montigo Bay at 8:05 on that Thursday. We get picked up from the airport and taken to the Breezes Resort of Runaway Bay. The group that we are going with has the whole resort reserved, so there will be no one but silly hippie freaks on the beach and in the bars and eating at the restaurants. The Trip cost includes all meals, (even the late night buffet that goes on all night) all drinks, YUP, that's right.. including the mimosa i will be ordering every morning by room service. If that is not enough, then all of our water sports and land sports are included (snorkeling, kayaking, towels, beach chairs etc- as well as a 18 hole golf course and tennis). Then on top of all that we get two full sets from both Umphres McGee and Disco Biscuits!!! SO EXCITING. Now, if you are saying to yourself, Wow, that is a big trip, wonder why she hasn't mentioned this before is because we only found out we were going like MONDAY!!- here's the short story.
We looked at this trip when it was first announced at the start of the summer. My boyfriend and i both decided that it was too spendy and that we didn't have the disposable cash that it took to do this (it is not too expensive, but for our money situation, it was not a reality).
So we never thought of it again.. To be honest it was totally off my radar. I knew Jam cruise was coming up, but forgot all about Caribbean Holidaze. So, a friend calls Monday night (now given i just got back from the east coast and still have not unpacked my bag) and I can only hear my boyfriend's part of the conversation and as i said i was really only thinking of Jam Cruise (similar to this trip but on a boat, we did that two years ago). So, my boyfriend gets off the phone and said, well that was an interesting call. I said yeah, sounds like he has an extra for jam cruise, you thinking about going..? Of course i was sad thinking he would want to go on this awesome vacation with a friend. And he said No, it's the Caribbean Holidaze. Immediately i was interesting because i like these bands better than the ones on the boat. So, i asked again, so you thinking about going?
He said, well he has a whole room, He can't go, his roommate for the trip backed out and he has a whole room (read two reservations) and "he wants us to go have fun in his room" well then reality hit me and i said, but we don't have the cash for the trip. And my boyfriend clarified that our friend has already been charges, no refunds and doesn't want us to pay him back... WHAT??? you mean that this guy wants to give us a Jamaican vacation with two of our favorite bands and 798 of our new closest friends. There was not a hesitation in my response when i said "when do we leave?". We got online and got a couple of plane tickets, changed to reservation names and we are headed to Jamaica in two weeks.. AMAZING.
We are staying in the Breezes resort at Runaway Bay if you want to look up what we get to do and see.. or just checkout this link to the trip.
http://www.caribbeanholidaze.com/home.php
OH MY GOD, I CAN'T WAIT!!!!
(especially when waking up to 18 degrees)
Later mon :)

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