DAY 8 - Last Day of the Honeymoon

DAY 8 - Our last full day on the island!!! 

Dear Atlantic ocean, I love you. Yours sincerely, Laurie

I guess the hat is really the focal point here.

We went back to Orient Bay to blow the rest of our Euros on ocean play and maybe massages if we had anything leftover, we weren’t taking that money back with us! First up: Jet Skiing! Joey drove most of the time and got us up to an impressive 39kph. He wanted to jump out into the ocean like a boss so I drove and got myself up to 49kph which is basically like lightning speed. Okay, Joey is way faster than me but it was easier and less scary to drive without someone holding onto your back just waiting to pull you in if you take a turn too quick.

After jet skiing we were trying to find a legitimate place to book a massage on the beach but that was actually hard to come by. The missuses work out of these tiny huts where you write your name on the front door to put yourself in a queue but every hut was bolted up with no one around to help. Now some of the women of the island know how to work this beach. They walk up and down to offer braids in hair, massages, sell hats and jewelry and they offer very competitive pricing. There are also many signs on the beach saying to not solicit from these women, it's an illegal act, especially massages. So I'm looking at a massage sign and a very friendly Jamaican woman asks if I’d like one, she even has real Aloe Vera that came straight out of a flipping leaf. I passed but she was very persistent and gave me a free taste AND offered a deal for both of us so we said ‘…uh ok’. We found a couple of chairs that were under a coconut tree and Joey and I got massages on the beach and it was as amazing as it sounds; so relaxing and great. Another girl who looked maybe 17 massaged Joey and offered us braids. For me it was a hard pass but Joey wanted it and Joey got it. They braided him real good. One of the women then scaled the tree above us, yanked some coconuts off and beat them into giving up their coconut water. They shared with us and Joey scaled the tree to grab more for them prompting the teenager to call Joey 'her hero'.

Coconut tree view during our massages.

He's my hero too!

I'm not good at this. 

We had to eat at our favorite lolo (Cynthia's) one more time. We shared that fan-flipping-
tastic meat platter which is just straight up ribs cooked in the best way with some sides. We ate outside on Restaurant Row then walked home and swam at our resort's beach. This is where we wanted our last swim to be – we were starting to get nostalgic already! 

Look at his hair! Looks good on him!

We showered and walked to the resort restaurant. Joey booked us a private dining area to watch the sunset. Also, this experience goes down as one of the top 5 of our honeymoon. We laid on two lounge chairs on an intimate patio with drinks and food and an insane sunset and no one else. If this was Hawaii we would have had to pay top dollar and we definitely would not have been alone.

A little alone time to watch our last sunset.

My baby and our secluded deck to watch the sunset.

Okay, so we weren't totally alone.

Watching the sunset.

After the sunset we headed back to the Italian restaurant (3^rd time!) so we could feed some kittens we saw and Joey really wanted to order pizza to go so we could watch Game of Thrones in bed. After our long, amazing honeymoon where we played and swam and hiked and explored, all we wanted to do at the end of it was eat food in bed and watch HBO’s wonderful Sunday programming.

The restaurant was closed so Joey took us to a pizza parlor that looked like trailer. We ordered our food then tried to fill our rental car up with gas next door but unfortunately we did not realize gas is sold by the liter and not gallon so we only filled it about 3/4 of the way. Ah well that would be a problem for the next day before we return the car! We got our 'zas, went back and ate and watched tv and packed. Once we were done with everything we took one more walk on the grounds including laying on our hammock - our special place. 

I decided to not create a blog for Monday, our last official day of the honeymoon. The day included going to three or four gas stations until we figured out we needed to hit up an ATM and pull out cash first to fill up, stopping by the Sunset Bar for a final mojito and rum shot, being sick at the airport because of the mojito and final run shot, oh then like 13 hours of travel. 

Gotta end the blog with one last picture of our beach! See Creole Rock back there?

This trip was everything we wanted it to be. We had swimming, action, adventure, romance, amazing food, animals galore, swimming, a great hotel, friends, swimming, cats on cats, Game of Thrones and most importantly I was able to be with my husband. We weren’t on our phones, we weren’t interrupted by life, we were able to just enjoy each other like honeymooners do.

Joey took video where he could so here’s a little recap if you’d like to see:

Honeymoon 2.30 video

Joey's favorite moment: The massage and hair braiding.

Laurie's favorite moment: Sitting on the roof watching the sunset with Joey, just holding his hand and sipping on my Guavaberry colada.