I don't remember what time I got up the next day, but it couldn't have been too late, since I wanted to get out there and soak up the rays.
We hit up the breakfast buffet, after that we either went to the pool first, then the beach, or vice versa. It probably wasn't even noon yet and I was BORED!
Shelby was wrong, bored after a week? It hasn't even been a full day for me yet and I was bored.
Don't get me wrong, I fully understood that going to a resort all you pretty much do is sit by the beach or pool and drink Mai Tai's all day long, but what I wasn't expecting was for it to be so dead!
I was expecting the place to be a lot more lively, filled with a lot more energetic people, and constant music going on in the background to jam to. But what I found was that more than half the lawn chairs were empty, no one really wanted to do anything! at all!
So once, I realized this fact and was forced to accept it, my vacation became a lot more enjoyable.
So after people watching for an entire afternoon, we finally came to the conclusion that about 60% of the resort guests had an accent, and of that 90% of the people were from Britain, and yes they all spoke with an accent.
I don't recall who, but someone discovered that they had a daily list of activities to do, both for night and during the day, and each days activities would be different, for example, one day would be a rock climbing competition, the next would be a table tennis one etc.
That's when it hit me, why must I find that group of energetic people, why can't I create that energetic atmosphere myself and draw the crowds in. So that's when I began to initiate operation 'Celebrity'.
I don't recall what I exactly did to kickstart my stardom, but when A&E Contacts me to do an autobiography, i'll think harder, I swear.
So anyways, I'm in the lobby getting my drink on and I meet this guy who is probably in his early 40's a bit on the plumpier side and is semi bald? and goes by the name of Steve during the night, but leopard speedo during the day. So I'm talking to Steve and asking him what is with everyone and their "coffee" mugs, then he tells me that those mugs hold a lot more, alcohol, so you don't have to make frequent trips up to the bar, and that they're theoretically cleaner as well. Another newbie resort mistake on my part.
Anyways, Steve traveled alone on this trip, and he was probably my first fan.
My second fan was probably about 5' 7" and just a little over 300 lbs. I was just standing there talking to Le Yen and Aileen and sipping ma beer, I guess we kinda both looked over and he said hi, and made his way over to us, explained that he was on the same plane as us, so that we wouldn't think he we too creepy, then started asking us where we were from, and it gets narrowed down like a Google Earth Search. Canada > Ontario > Toronto > Vaughan > Maple > turns out the world is pretty small and he lives @ Jane & Major Mack. This is clearly fun for him, so he asks us what floor we're on and where our room is, we're on the first floor and our room is right behind the buffet area. Then he told us that he was here with his wife and child, and with his sister in laws family, of which he did not like the sister in law one bit!
Then asked us who we were here with, we told him, then he couldn't really picture what Sang looked like so we started describing what he looked like to him.
I have no idea what time the sun gets up in the mornings, but I'm usually out of my room by 9:30 and the Jamaican sun is blaring and blazzing hawt! But not to worry, usually the sun is gone by three and doesn't come back until the next day. So you really only have to apply sunscreen once. Well I only did it once each day, which might explain why I look Mexican. Huh!
Of the entire week that we were there, it only really rained "once". I say it only rained once because it only really affected us that one time, there was light rain another time and it there was rain another time, but it was night time and we were indoors napping.
So we're outside playing and waiting for the strength competition to begin, and then all of a sudden it starts to rain, pretty hard too! So we all take cover under large living room sized structure and begin the strength competition. The strength competition was to see who could hold two jugs of water at arms length for the longest period of time. Girls only had to hold one jug of water.
Originally it was only a few people who were part of the competition, but since it rained, we were joined by others, no worries, the more the merrier, so it was us 5, a family of 8 from Montreal and a father and son who were both named Mark.
Long story short, Ly was able to hold the water jugs the longest and his prize was a bottle of Appleton Rum. So once that was over we were just hanging around the structure talking to the entertainment staff who were responsible for organizing such events and playing table tennis.
Then all of a sudden a man comes running to us from across the facility where the bar is located, asking us if we had an extra ping pong ball. This caught Sang's attention because he immediately thought of Beer Pong (At the beginning of the trip Sang was genuinely bummed for 6 minutes because Ly forgot to bring the Ping Pong Balls).
Once the guy heard that Sang wanted to play beer pong with him, he invited us as well, then said what about flip cup, since more people can play, and this caught my attention, so we all abandoned our current activities and headed over to the bar area to play Flip Cup!
So here, we pushed two tables together formed two teams of four. The teams were us three (Ly, Sang and Myself) along with one of the entertainment staff (Kevan) against four Americans.
You have no idea how relieved I was when I heard a familiar English voice. Up until this time, we were purely vacationing with Brits. Every single person that we encountered was practically a Brit.
Finally English, that we can all easily understand!
The only kind of cups we had were the resort cups, which were made of hard plastic, and were surprisingly "hard" to flip. I say "hard" because I was lucky and was easily able to flip my cup between 1 and 4 tries each time. I think we only played three matches total.
So for the first match Team Canada all drank and flipped our cups, while Team America was still trying to flip their first cup over. They didn't even get past the first person, he was only a sub for someone who went to the washroom, so when she came back, he was booted.
Round 2! This time was a bit better, they were able to make it to the second person before we beat them.
Round 3! They wanted to change the formation around and start at the opposite end, and as they say in Jamaica - No Problem Man. So we did just that, and we still beat them, I think they only got to the 3rd person this time.
Clearly the Yanks were not having it and were tired of losing so they decided to change it back to their original game of Beer Pong. We stayed for a bit, but clearly the game was going to take forever! So we decided to just leave and that we'll catch up with them another time.
Hopefully the rain will stop in time because we're suppose to have a beach party tonight! We all went back to our rooms to shower and nap. The key is to nap during the "down time", which is when there is no sun and in between the start of the nightly events. So nap around 4-7 ish. I found this out the hard way, 'cause on the second day, I partied all day and was exhausted by night fall, another newbie mistake.
So after dinner we checked to see if the beach party was still on, since the rain had stopped earlier and yes it was. So we all headed down to the beach party.
To start things off, they started with an ice breaker game, where you find a partner, gather around in a group and depending on the word they shout out, you do the action, so in this case, if they shouted out the word Rum, you would continue to dance with your partner, if they shouted out Beer, you would need to find a new partner to dance with, and if they shouted out the word Mudslide, you would need to pick up your partner.
I joined, Ly joined and Aileen joined. Finding a partner was easy for me, because a little German/Jamaican boy tapped me on the back and asked me to be his partner (must be another fan). Aileen and Ly were partners.
I thought that I would be able to make it pretty far into the game considering that I have a very small partner which would make it easy to pick up. But see I forgot one key thing, being able to locate the little munchkin in a crowd, and was quickly eliminated by the third round. In the end Aileen and Ly emerged victorious!
After that we might have played the game limbo, or we might have played limbo before the dancing game, anyways I'm sure you know how limbo works, and guess who wins it. Yup, that's correct...Limberly.
Anyways, we have time for another game! This time it's a like a timed scavenger hunt. Yes, all three of us participate. It's like Le Yen and Sang weren't even there. We all gather around in a circle and when the host shouts out an item we have to go get it. For example, if he shouted out Cup then we would all have to go find a cup and last person to return to the circle with the cup would be eliminated. Ly was first to be eliminated because he was unable to find a watch, then I was eliminated because I was unable to obtain a pair of shorts, and finally it came down to Aileen and two other girls, so they decided to have a dance off for it. Look for the video of Aileen dancing on YouTube.
Aileen lost the dancing competition because one of the girls had a larger fan base.
So anyways after that, we were just hanging out on the beach, drinking and learning some dance moves under the moonlight, so it was a good experience.
While we're dancing we see Team America and we joke around of how we left because they put us to sleep watching that game of beer pong, then they joked around by saying how they just finished about 10 minutes ago, then we joked some more about saving the disposable plastic cups that we had tonight to play beer pong tomorrow.
So then I see the sub from the flip cup game, Lauren and I approach her. I asked her if she played volleyball, she clearly looked the sporty type, I just couldn't pinpoint what sport she played. She told me no, that she played basketball, field hockey, baseball and softball. I said that you play that many sports and I had to guess volleyball, and we had a laugh at that.
After that, most of the crowd had already left the beach area, so we left as well.
The next days daily activities were I think a Rock Climbing Competition, which Ly took first place again and earned another bottle of rum, and a talent show @ night, however the talent show was canceled due to a lack of ...... talent. So they changed it over to a couples game, to see how much you know about your significant other. Le Yen was willing to participate but Sang refused to participate because he knew he didn't stand a chance against the other couples. Ly and myself were going to join in, we were sure that we would be able to win it, we spent a good 40 minutes rehearsing our answers too.
When the show came around, I saw that they had a large audience, so I didn't jump up on stage to claim my fame as I normally do, since I figured I'd give others a shot at playing, when no one but one couple was going to participate, I motioned to Ly that we should go up there and save the day. As we were making our way up, they canceled the game due to a lack of participation and changed it to a Mr. Starfish competition. The ENT Team also called us three guys out to go up on stage, and we were quickly joined by 4 other contestants to make 8.
So now that they had 8 people, the show could begin, to start things off is a chugging competition, do I even need to tell you who wins it? Ly of course!
The next event I think was that we had to take off our shirts and show our beer belly's, I tried to play the "it's a family event" type of thing, but that didn't fly. I flat out lost that challenge.
The next challenge was to pick your favorite animal. Ly picked a Monkey, I picked a starfish, and Sang picked a duck.
Ly did an excellent interpretation of a monkey, where he jumped around ate bugs off another mans hair etc, where I just stood there with my arms open and jumped up a few times, and Sang simply made Donald Duck noises. So Ly took that challenge again. After wards people told me that if I were to have jumped in the pool, they would have cheered harder for me, but I wasn't prepared to take that step to fame.
The next task was to name your favourite female artist. Ly picked, the one and only Miley Cyrus, I picked a picture perfect Beyonce and Sang picked Miss Umbrella herself, Rihanna. Then we had to go into the crowd and find a girl who looked like our celebrity. I thought that was the end of the task, but I was wrong, they then had us compete to see who could do the most pushups with our favourite female celebrity on our backs. Ly was able to do 15 push-ups with his, I completed 10 and Sang was only able to do 1.5 push-ups.
Just by reading these events it sounds like Ly won it for sure, but I must be forgetting some events because Ly lost by 1 point.
So after that we sit around by the pool for awhile, laughing and discussing tonight's events. After that we head on back up to the lobby to view the agenda for tomorrow's events, because Ly needs to win more Rum to bring home!
Shortly after, the ladies retire again and Sang and myself hit the lobby bar, and as i'm at the bar, I run into a Guyanese guy who is on vacation and who was on our plane, he said he saw me up there and just wanted to congratulate me on my work and we exchanged some information about each other after that I bring the beer back to Sang and we sit down, down a couple of beers then head on over to the disco.
Inside the disco we find a table and sit down for a while, just sitting and not doing much talking 'cause it's too loud in there to talk anyways. Then all of a sudden out of no where, Sang suggests that we head on over and do shots at the bar, this catches me off guard, but i'm okay with it, since I haven't done any shots since i've gotten here.
As we get up and leave our seats, Lauren and Martha (the girls who we played flip cup with) bring us shots saying that we looked bored and that we should take the shot with them, so we did, after that, I hit the dance floor with them, along with Danette, one of the ENT staff.
About 10 minutes later, Sang signals to me that he's leaving and that I'm left to fend for myself. Then about 10 minutes after that, we all head out of the club and back to the lobby to exchange facebook information.
Once that is completed, we head back into the club to dance some more. Meanwhile, I make my way over to the bar to get myself another drink and as i'm on my way, i'm stopped by a Guyanese girl, who said that she saw me up on stage earlier and liked what she saw, and that the man who I was talking to earlier was her Uncle.
So up comes Lauren and pulls me up to the bar, telling me that I have to do another shot with her, sure thing. So we do a shot with the bar tender, right after that shot, they decide that they're really hot and they're going to cool off in the pool, but first that they needed to change.
So we agree that we'll meet back at the pool in 10 minutes.
So I get back to the room, slightly tipsy and inform Ly that I'm going to go swimming with them and asked if he wanted to come along, but he declined.
So I get back out there and sit by the pool, shortly after they both come trotting down the stairs, and yes we swam around, well Lauren swam around and made weird seal noises at the request of her friend. So i'm sitting there talking to her friend, then Lauren swims up and somehow manages to convince her friend to go back inside with her bathing suit on to get drinks.
So now, i'm sitting there talking to Lauren and she's explaining to me how my friends suck because they all went to bed so early. I say, yes I know. She said that they saw us sitting by the pool earlier, shortly after the game, as they were headed to the beach area, and as they came back we were gone.
The next thing I wanted to say was "Oh, so you're stalking me?" But as soon as I opened my mouth and said Oh, I found that her tongue was down my throat. Thank goodness I flossed that night!
So anyways we made out until friend came back and broke us up. Then a few blokes were walking on by and they invited them to go to the hot tub with us, and for some odd reason there was some sort of argument going on between the Americans and the British, and being a Canadian in this situation is hard, since we have ties with both countries, so I just stood there quietly until a guy sitting at a table watching the entire event unfold called me over, to tell me that he wasn't with those two Brits, that he was a Scot didn't want me to mistake him for hanging out with them and giving him a bad name.
I told him I understood, then after the Brits left, we invited him to join us in the hot tub, at first he said he was just only going to walk with us there, then when we got there and got in, they somehow convinced him to join us.
So here I am sitting in the hot tub, facing Martha, with Lauren to my left and the Scot, whose name is Greg to my right, for some odd reason Greg refused to move on to the other side and sit with Martha. Lauren even suggested something to him to get him to the other side, then he replied with "no, i'm okay here" (in a Scottish accent), he just couldn't take a hint.
Alright, this isn't working out, so the girls huddle and decide to run a play, so when they get back they run through a list of questions, such as where you're from, what's your name, what do you do, do you have a girlfriend etc.
Turns out that he has a girlfriend which is why I guess he doesn't want to move over to the other side?
Okay, I can't just sit here forever myself, time to run a play of my own. So I ask Lauren if she wants to go check out one of the other 2 available hot tubs, she says sure, but once we get there and test the water, we discover that they're super cold compared to the one we were just in, so we quickly run back.
So it looks like i'm stuck with these two, so we sit there for a while, then Greg decides to call it a night, then Martha decides to call it a night. Assuming that my sister hasn't gauged her eyes out by now and is still reading this post, I don't think I need to fill you guys in on what happened next.
So after a while, we decide to call it a night since her checkout time is at 10 tomorrow and my fingers are getting all pruny. I'm on the first floor in the opposite direction and shes' on the fifth floor, but the gentlemen in me says walk her back to her room. So of course I do.
So she gets to her room and bangs on her door for her roommate to let her in, tells her to leave the door open and we stand outside for about another five minutes, just chatting. After that we say goodbye to each other, since i'll probably never see her again and I make my way back to my room. Wow. It's 3:40 in the morning!
