Jamaica, mon!

So we took the kids to Jamaica last week.  Before kids, we would never have gone to an "all-inclusive" Hilton in Jamaica.  Just not our kind of vacation.  But Daddy-J had a conference at this hotel, so we booked a few extra days to stay after and decided to take the kids for a beach vacation in January.

Daddy-J had to fly there by himself from Phoenix (another conference).  So I had the kids all by myself.  Turns out, the only way to get there from here is to take a red-eye from here to Atlanta.

Here are the kids in Atlanta, waiting for our flight to Jamaica. We got into Atlanta at 6:00 a.m. or so, and left at about 9:50 a.m., so we had some waiting to do!

It was all worth it when we got to the hotel in Jamaica and saw that this was our beach!  Wowza!

Of course the kids wanted nothing more than to hit the water park as soon as it opened after breakfast and stay until it closed at 5:00 p.m.  So that's what we did!

The water park had a really fun tube slide that we all enjoyed over and over and over...

Miss D's friend, Miss C, and her family were also there.  The girls spent many, many hours playing together.

We all enjoyed the swim-up bar.  Seriously.  The girls ordered dozens of strawberry daiquiris and mango daiquiris. I may or may not have had a few margaritas.  Daddy-J may have enjoyed a few of the "drinks of the day."

With the all-you-can-eat buffet open just about all hours of the day and night, the pool-side food service, swim-up bar and a couple of nice restaurants thrown in for good measure (oh, and don't forget the Kidz Klub that the girls enjoyed a few times while Mama went to the adults-only beach with her book!), we would definitely do this vacation again!