Victor LaBoy

We bought tickets to go on a Bob Marley tour. I thought our excursion started at 10:15am so when we got up around 7:30am, my girlfriend took her time and showered. It was about 8am when she was about to get some breakfast when I was about to jump in the shower. I decided to just look at the tickets again and realized that the tour actually started at 8:15am!!! We didn’t eat and my girlfriend got so mad because she didn’t have time to do her hair or makeup. We ran out and just made it on the bus.

People were already drinking beer at 8:15am since it must’ve been noontime somewhere in the world. The host was playing Bob Marley music throughout the bus ride, which was a little over an hour, to the Bob Marley museum. The drive up was crazy. Natives kept approaching the bus trying to sell things or just asking for money from us. Plus we were going up a high and winding mountain. Our tour guide was crazy as well and had this weird laugh. Children nearby were trying to climb the fences and ask for money. Other children were trying to reach over and under the fences to sell other stuff too for money. They even had a menu of what they had to offer. Not only did I buy some stuff, but I also had a beef patty at the café at the Bob Marley museum. Both were disappointing. On the drive back to our port, we stopped at a place called Nightingale’s for free beef patty and that was legit and tasted awesome! Near the port we had lunch that was included in our package. I hate to say it but the jerk chicken was dry and not tasty at all. I was quite disappointed with my consumption of Jamaica this time around compared to my experience 3 years ago when I was at the Breezes resort in Runaway Bay.

I was lucky though to bring some souvenirs on board as I found out later at dinner the next night that the friends at our dinner table were not so lucky. They went to the Bob Marley museum on their own in a taxi and on the way back got stopped by the Jamaican police. The girl told us she was bawling her eyes out in front of 200 other passengers standing by as her boyfriend (actually fiancé, he had just proposed to her) was being held and threatened imprisonment.

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