i'm home!!!

and i'm too tired to be coherent...

i walked in the door at around 1:30am, and have been catching up with petting the cat, email & LJ since. i haven't yet succeeded in any of these, and it might take me some time type up all the stuff that i'd written while there along with current ideas/reactions.. but, for a quick synopsis - it was fun; it was good to spend time with the grandparents; it as good to spend time on a warm azure beach; it made me miss camping/back to nature vacations; it made me wish i was in the area with a male companion because being a single female in jamaica is really limiting; i made friends with a russian girl; i went snorkeling and sailing and (obviously) swam a bunch; i jumped off a (small) cliff; i drank a whole bunch; i got stood up for a pseudo-date; i really missed my friends!

so - when do i get to see you??

oddness

so while i was in jamaica, i missed the people i know and love here...

now, as much as i sorely miss being in the warmth, with the ocean and the sand and the sky, i also miss the people i met there. its so very odd because they're not people i spent too much time with or seriously bonded with - people like marisa, who's a bartender in NY, or vj & craig, who worked in the hotel - its like in some ways, in an all-too-short period (especially in the case of marisa & vj) they became a part of my evening ruitine, and i miss their presence...

and i will hopefully post the pictures & write a bit more about the trip when i get home - my god - how i miss looking up, seeing palm leaves, sand, water and sky!!

piccies!

more hindsight - while in jamaica, i didn't feel like taking lots of pictures - didn't want to be walking around with the camera, and didn't think i'd want pictures of every other thing. and now i realize i was wrong...


me, on seven mile beach

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