My DS upon me leaving for Jamaica. It is sad because it doesn't get to go with me. Yeah that's permanent marker.
I totally got to ride the Pokemon train to the airport again! Only this time, I was supposed to be on it!
A view from the outside, showing how the train appears to startled onlookers.
Apparently there is an entire village of restaurants and souvenir shops that has taken root inside the CHubu International Airport.
I saw this sign posted in front of a little shrinish thing in the airport.
So I made these.
There they are! I figure with them together I'm pretty sure of getting at least one of them to come true.
How advertising slogans cros the line into Creepiness.
The restaurant I ate at in Dallas Ft. Worth on the way to Jamaica to someone's wedding. I only ate here because it was the closest fooding place to my gate.
...And apparently here is an example of what a wasted mind looks like. Don't let more little girls go crazy. Call today.
The Camille Claw.
I swear my eyes get less symmetrical every day... We're in Jamaica now at a CHinese restaurant with some of the Samms and wedding people. You can see me, Rileena and Mrs. Samms!
Here is the lovely couple, with Camille's serene expression and Jared apparently saying, “I'm getting married!”
Apparently Aunt Maureen is telling Cathy something very profound.
The only reason for this picture...
Is because it looks cool if you quickly flip back and forth to this picture.
It's the Spaniards! RIta and Nil. Dania isn't a Spaniard. That I'm aware of of.
I honestly don't know what is happening in this picture, but for somereason there is a lot of attention given to my pants. Or maybe the chopsticks.... Even Rileena is fascinated.
It's the fish! But that's not why we came here... We came for the Pimento Steak!!!
Everyone is captivated by Dad's coy style.
Something cool just happened, I guess., according to Elli. Also, you can see half of Mr. Samms head! More of him to come later!
The next morning. I am so ready for this wedding! Rehearsal.
I thought the night before I left Japan, “My hair is really long. I'm going to the wedding. Hmmmm...” but I didn't find any barber shops in the airports close enough to me so I got one in the Pegasus hotel we went to.
Well I always knew Jared was a Bachelor, but they spelled “Geographer” wrong for his Calling. Also Camille is a spinster. Well, ex-spinster now I guess. And her calling is to always be a student.
Jared with his “You guys did realise I was just kidding about this whole 'wedding' thing right?” This is at the rehearsal, which was done at a practice church because we didn't want to risk all the pyrotechnics messing up the REAL wedding chapel on the test run. Also just in case any of the animal handlers lost control of their animals.
He is Ian totally missing the clouds.
The view from the Samms' house. Note the frame of breadfruit, banana, and ackee. (Left to right)
Juici Patties. Supposedly one of the best places to get patties, ever.
The Wedding shower begins with a pink cloud hopping over a grey one.
It's a female golden silk orbweaver!!! Yay!!! One of the coolest spiders ever. Oh by the way this shower is happening up on the mountainside overlooking Kingston.
And there it is! Don't use the stems of that pink flowering plant to cook hotdogs. You'll die. Supposedly.
Everytime I start looking around at trees and stuff and thinking how similar it seems to The Bahamas I look up and see stuff like that. (mountains)
And now for an awesome meal of bammy (a kind of .... well in this case it was like big french fries made of ground cassava. Is it the same as Yucca?), festival (awesome), pan chicken, june plum juice (super delicious juice and it's ALREADY green!), and of course, SPECIAL pork.
Best ad for Ice Cucumber Pepsi ever! I think I'm talking on the phone about something unimportant.
Here is Jared.
This is me trying to get all the doves to fit in my sleeves before the wedding.
Part of the Kingsway Krew. Ian, Jarel, and Felix.
Rita and Nil help AUnt Maureen make sure the flower petals stay where they're supposed to, the wind be darned.
Brendan, thinking profound, yet deep, marriage thoughts.
Brendan, keeping out the riff-raff. Nobody's getting past that cold, steely stare.
AJ, making sure the place stays at an adequate level of cool.
Jonquil frantically trying to memorise the names of the bride and groom before the ceremony starts.
Neil displaying his powerful control over his sweat glands by producing an artful intrepretation of a T-Rex skeleton with an anglerfish lure riding a surfboard.
“Son, I'm gonna give you some very important advice for a very important day; You put the ring on the one wearing the white dress. If you screw this up, we're gonna have to rely on Brett and Sean to carry on the Davis name.”
Dad wearing the latest designer wear by Rorschach (TM).
This pew managed to catch the bouquet BEFORE the wedding, and so is destined to get hitched to a lucky vestibule.
The brothers Davis after playing Rock Paper Scissors for who would gets to sit in the front.
Jared, on the best day of his life.
We don't even know how those bubbles got there.
The sound guy totally looks like a pirate here. And also you can see Wendy who did all the official, good photos for the wedding and made them into a cool slideshow. SHe only looks like a pirate a little, because of the cool earrings.
Camille hugging, I think, me, based on the chin blemishes (On me, not her).
I don't know why, but I think this picture is great.
Camille after stealing Rita's black fan shows off her fanning powers.
Ian foils Brett's clever plan.
Me setting the mood.... to the Xtreme.
Mike: “Dude, there's that woman who just got married!” Me: “Where?”
Super Bridesmaids-except-for-Jillian Action Rangers Assemble!
Greek Ranger, GO!!
Wendy: “Here's the problem, someone made the back of this dress just way too long.” Jasred and Camille are perplexed by this problem.
Cutting off the excess material is proposed.
Covering up the extra part subtely is attempted.
The solution: Jared will stand on it, thus making it look like Camille married a little person with no shoes, who is standing on a hidden stool.
If you carefully follow the direction of my pointing finger, and are observant, you may notice some clouds in this photo.
But then, right after I was pointing them out, I lost them... This is us groomsmen stopping at a gas station for gas and drinks on the way to the reception.
This is a small glimpse of the road going up from Kingston to Strawberry Hill. Driving up a mountain in Jamaica is like an infinitely repeating loop of an extremely curvy road that gives you motion sickness, but the view keeps getting more and more incredible so you don't mind that when everytime you expect to reach the summit, you instead start another iteration of the perpetually ascending roadway.
St. Andrew, for those that may recognise it for various reasons.
You can zoom in on the phone lines to reveal how the air-ferns and occassional orchid in Jamaica can find absolutely ANY place to grow.
You'd think that this view could come from near the top, but it's not.
Again, nowhere near the top ofthis mountain.
Notice the fuzy telephone wires.
Another dog that we saw!
A sign that vastly understates the conditions of the road we are on.
You can see some parts of Kingston, I think.
There are mountains in Jamaica.
Somehow, these two trucks are able to pass each other on this road.
Now we're at the parking spot for the reception! See it later!
