GUESS WHAT! We woke up and landed in Jamaica!! We were super excited for more action-filled activities. I think we were starting to feel a bit dizzy or sea-sick on the boat…

The boys went down Park Cafe?) for breakfast. I really wanted to sleep in, so my dear Nancy went down to grab me some food. Bless her soul.

It’s essentially a big area full of lots of shops selling all kinds of souvenirs and a few bars!

 

Waiting for our bus to arrive! For today’s shore excursion we chose the Good Hope Thrill Seekers’ Pass!

Reminder: bring cash!! You’ll want to tip tbe guides along the way when doing activities on shore excursions.

Our bus driver and tour guide were super funny and made us laugh the entire way! What’s even funnier was that our bus was originally a bus from Japan (all the warnings and text were written in Japanese, it even used a map of Japan routes).

We learnt that Jamaica has 41 types of mango!! And we didn’t get to try any :(. I really love this photo btw, it was taken during a bumpy bus ride so bit blurry.

The boys are ready.

Okay, I didn’t have fancy go pros like everyone else did to take photos and such during the ziplining we did… So please take this picture as evidence I did go on it! We had three guys that helped a group of us zipline through some beautiful hill tops. They cracked a lot of jokes and made us laugh the entire day!

It was kind of confusing after the ziplining, because we thought there would be someone guiding us from one activity to another. But they basically drop you off in this area that has everything and you need to kind of manage your own schedule.

Sorry Brenton, you weren’t looking in this photo. But we had a lot of fun on the adventure course! I’m kind of scared of heights, but I got used to it after a while :).

TIME TO EAT. Because we said so. This ginger beer was much needed. It was so hot! It tastes like ginger ale but with more fresh and prominent ginger taste.

This is the most amazing jerk chicken we ever had. The meat was so tender and the flavour was just… amazing. Sugoi. We definitely put some HOT sauce on that 😉

We would just recommend getting jerk chicken without the sides…

We squeezed in some river tubing! Sadly it started to rain while we were on it. Creds to Nancy for her hard effort in getting a photo out of her gopro video LOL.

SO, who’s a fan of rum?! I don’t really know my alcohol, but we had to try this famous one since we’re here! Appleton Estate rum. My stepfather has clients that send him this every Christmas. It’s quite expensive x.x

The history behind this place is incredible.. being established in 1749. That’s like over 268 years old?! Dayum.

 

 

We tried three kinds: Signature blend, reserve blend, and the rare blend. For those who haven’t tried rum, I’d describe it as liquid fire going down your throat. I’m not sure how appealing that sounds but the burn strangely felt kind of nice.

Signature blend: it’s aged around 4 years and has a beautiful light amber or honey colour. It’s warm and more fruitier tasting, bit of orange peel taste in there.

Reserve blend: This was our more preferred one. Bit stronger, and aged for an average of 6 years. You can taste more spices and the colour is a bit darker.

Rare blend: We were lucky and got to try a newly opened bottle of this! This was REALLY strong, it just hit us. This is aged for an average of 12 years. It has a much darker colour and tastes more woody? I can’t explain it. It was too strong for me… that’s all I remember. XD.

NOTE: do not buy any liquor when you’re on the cruise, because when you go through security before heading back to the ship they actually confiscate it…? I’m not sure why they wouldn’t warn you beforehand?

As we were leaving we ran up to the top to see the view. There was one guard dressed in a safety vest that waved and shouted us goodbye as we were leaving. He got us to shout something back and overall we were left with such a good impression of Jamaica haha.

And we’re back to our original dining area! Our servers were so sweet and said they were wondering where we went and that they missed us T^T.

The Maryland crab cake. The sauce was very yummy but I wished it was more fresh crab meat. I feel like it tasted like imitation crab meat??

The roasted garlic soup. Nancy says it’s yummy!

Ahh the french onion soup. Can’t really go wrong with this, other than it’s super oily and you feel like you need a salad after haha.

This was the ahi tuna steak! To be honest, this wasn’t as good as I was thinking it would be… but the colours are beautiful! 🙂

In case you were wondering, this is how we ate every night on the cruise. These are only the entrees too XP. And yes. We get quite a few stares.

What a night! we just did more trips to snack places and the mix bar (the guys bought the drink package and really needed to get their money’s worth… LOTS OF ALCOHOL lol).

Stay tuned for the next post whoo!

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Michelle is out!