Jamaica Post #5

Saturday 1-1-05 NEW YEAR'S DAY!
What an amazing day. I've never had a New Year's Day like this before! We piled into a bus around 7:45 in the morning - so early! We drove about 3 hours through the mountains to Dunn's River Falls - a park with a beach and a beautiful waterfall.







We took some picutres and then went swimming in the Caribbean Sea. After a little while we decided to play in the sand. We were going to build a sandman instead of a snowman (my idea - other builders were Lori, Abby, Kristen, and Crystal) We eventually gave up because it was looking nothing like a snowman. Ah well. We then walked uphill to go back to the bus for lunch. To exit you have to walk through a market. People were yelling "hey pretty girl" and "hey sexy lady" and wanting to take us to their shops. One guy took Abby and so we followed her to make sure she was safe and then someone took Crystal in the other direction. We finally got out and got to the bus and ate PB&J sandwhiches. Then we rented water shoes and went to the beach again. From there we all climbed up the water fall.



It was hard in some places but it was incredible! By the time we were done with that it was time to change our clothes and leave. We piled into the bus and came back to Mandeville. We rested for a bit and then walked to Island Jerk for dinner. I got the same thing I got last time - jerk chicken and festival. Then we came back here had a meeting and went to bed