- The weather
- The eye candy
- The accents
- All-inclusive
- Dancehall routines with Jamaicans and keeping up with them
- Meditating while laying in a hammock
- The bartender, Kemar, keeping me right at the 24-hr bar
- The view every morning when I opened my eyes
- Drinking while in the pool
- Eating foods I never ate before
- Appleton rum
- Catching up on 3 months of Essence mag in the sun
- Having genuine convos with strangers from different countries
- My birthday dress
- Meeting two other ladies who were celebrating their birthdays
- Flirting with the son of one of those ladies and his mother encouraging it
- My body in the birthday dress
- ATV riding
- Zip lining through the forest
- Tubing on the river
- Authentic Jamaican cuisine
- The entire restaurant singing “Happy Birthday” to me
- “NO MORE!” to the ladies who kept bringing me champagne
- Watching a steel drum band perform live for the first time
- Seeing a “3” hat setting off my Chicago spidey senses (The group was from Chicago...Bronzeville)
- Knowing a man was from Detroit or Chicago by the way he dressed (It was Chicago)
- A lazy day of hanging on the beach and then by the pool
- The lazy day bartender, Demar, and that smile
- “Empreeeesssssss” (girlfriend)
- A lady telling me Canadians don’t last long in bed, after juicin' two of them on the trip
- A spliff giving me the giggle fits on my last night
- Never feeling lonely, though I took the trip solo dolo
- “I saw you in that black & white dress the other night. Are you a model?” -Someone’s White Auntie
- The love from everyone who made my trip memorable as I said goodbye.
- This glorious suntan, along with 137 mosquito bites
WHAT A TRIP! ☺️☺️☺️
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