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So patience please because there are HUNDREDS of them! 200 at least still sitting on the phone itself and more that were transferred to flash drive previously!
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Trinidad Carnival 2011: HUNDREDS of Pictures and Videos coming!
The serious delay between pictures and videos at the events and uploads here and to my YouTube are because I somehow left the 16-gig SD memory card for my real camera in the States! Had to make do with my Android phone's camera and while it took great pics, it also has less memory and there was not enough time in front of the average-speed guesthouse computer to get them all uploaded before heading back out each day!
So patience please because there are HUNDREDS of them! 200 at least still sitting on the phone itself and more that were transferred to flash drive previously!
So patience please because there are HUNDREDS of them! 200 at least still sitting on the phone itself and more that were transferred to flash drive previously!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Trinidad Carnival 2011: Day 2--Liming and Sorting Out Costume Collection!
Costume collection drama was going on from TRIBE straight on down the line to YUMA, Legacy, D'Krewe...it was just one of those things but mannnnn what a mess! Thank God the road was definitely a different story, at least from what I could see with YUMA (who was often right in front of us) and D'K'rewe!
Monday, March 7, 2011
It is 2:30am J'OUVERT MORNING...TRINIDAD CARNIVAL 2011!
I am up and hype for J'OUVERT MORNING 2011 in TRINIDAD! "wine to di ground, mi love how yuh do your ting, you're so aMAZING!" Chocolate City J'ouvert band wi soon reach!
Will update the blog and YouTube as soon as I can get a break!
Cause after the "liming" Friday was GIRL POWER Friday night, costume drama and TRINIDADFETETICKETS fraudulent behaviour with our Sunny Side Up All Inclusive tickets drama, and then all night MAD ting with INSOMNIA at Mobs 2 in Chaguaramas, Trinidad! Didn't get home til 11am, and my voice isn't back yet from Insomnia so if someone sees it out there tell it I need to scream again for J'ouvert cause IWER GEORGE suppose to be on the road with us and when this song comes on it mash up the WHOLE place EVERY TIME!
Will update the blog and YouTube as soon as I can get a break!
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| D'Krewe Carnival Mas Camp, Woodbrook, Trinidad! |
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Trinidad Carnival 2011--Day 1: Tobago!
^^Check out the album, lots of great pictures!
TeamNoSleep: I got to Trinidad Wednesday night and didn't actually get some real sleep til (just an hour nap to and fro on the ferry) Friday morning because after I got out of the airport, got food, got to the guesthouse, got unpacked, and got cleaned up...it was just barely enough time to call the taxi and head to the ferry for my first trip to Tobago!
2 guys I had made friends with when I was to play in YUMA were my "tour guides" for the day...only got to about half of the things I wanted to check out but what we did see, the sights and sounds of Tobago, plus the fine Trini art of liming made it a PERFECT start to an already GREAT vacation!
Video-blogs on YouTube!
Friday, March 4, 2011
Trinidad Carnival 2011: Day 1--Getting to Trinidad
TRINIDAD!!!!! Wi REACH! I have arrived and there is already so much to say and so little sleep to keep going on, lol!
Security getting through the airports was RATHER serious when travelling with a host of liquids including rubbing alcohol, shaving cream, and sunblock. THREE times they scanned the one bag smh! Try to remember to pack all these things in your CHECKED luggage don't be like me and earn yourself a return trip to the check-in point and a whopping $50 charge for a 3rd piece of checked luggage (thanks AirTran)!
Fort Lauderdale International airport was chaotic, and slow. Constant multiple SIMULTANEOUS announcements over two systems for every little thing...and what is up with all the people headed to South America who held up their flights by having to be called to their gates? Did they pay the same cash I had to pay for my flight? lol!
Arrived in Trinidad at Piarco International 11:15pm on Caribbean Airlines....you would think being this late meant less waiting around to get through and get OUT the airport...and you would think wrong! One girl was POWER walking to get ahead of us to Customs and I thought she was exaggerating the need to get there so fast. Til we got around the corner and saw the long curling lines! Jaw dropping the amount of time I had to spend there inching forward!
WORD TO THE WISE: If you are a CariCom national (from one of the Caribbean community member islands) PLEASE be smarter than me and walk with your native country's passport, NOT just the U.S. or other naturalized country's passport, so you can join the Trinidad citizen/resident/Caricom national line! It's shorter, faster, just better! This is one time the U.S. passport does not help at ALL. lol
Okay through Customs and out to find a local phone provider's kiosk, and we run into B-mobile's which is the first thing you see in front of you as walk out of Customs. However this late at night the apparently very popular carrier was sold out of the cheap phones and their least expensive available phone was $100 USD, so after standing in that line for what turned out to be no good reason (and lol'ing at the guy wishing to hurry up and clear the line and close up shop before a late flight coming after us landed and sent another wave of incoming masqueraders etc. his way), I headed over to the Digicel kiosk a few steps down. More Murphy's law foolishness as they had the cheap phones but were out of SIM cards. Lucky for me my luck is stronger than Murphy's law and SIM cards arrived while we were still there, so in short order I was set up on my local Trini phone and number with credit for talk time added and ready to roll.
Baggage claim was another line, but moved faster than Customs (is there anything that does NOT move faster than that Customs line? lol) We had taken so long that our bags (myself and one of my crew arrived on the same flight) were already waiting for us off to the side.
Next came the drama with taxis. I had scheduled one, but the man wanted to charge us way way WAY too much to handle our itinerary for the week or so, so I made an executive decision to simply roll with a taxi driver who was already waiting inside the airport to make a fare. Turns out to be a great choice because not only was he very informative and helpful, he was also very generous when I spotted a street vendor selling doubles made right in front of you: he paid for both my meal's and my friend's! Lol my friend said he seemed to have taken a liking to me why he did it, lol!
We were dying to get near a shower and a bed...but that bed never quite came for me...you'll see why next blog post!
And blog coming soon on the actual guesthouse, La Calypso.
Won't be doing this much verbiage after this cause there is no time...straight photojournals and I try and do a blurb beneath each as to what's going on in it!
Micro-sleeping now cause between Wednesday morning and now, Friday morning, I have gotten about 4 hours sleep...smh all day wednesday on the road and on the plane, all day thursday on the ferry and in Tobago and liming with the latest arrival in my crew, and now trying to NOT neglect the blog in the middle of all the fun in the sun! :-) Good times!
Next: A day in Tobago!
YouTube videos are up, and will keep coming, so check them out, subscribe to my channel, and see live action views of Trinidad, Tobago, and Carnival 2011!
Security getting through the airports was RATHER serious when travelling with a host of liquids including rubbing alcohol, shaving cream, and sunblock. THREE times they scanned the one bag smh! Try to remember to pack all these things in your CHECKED luggage don't be like me and earn yourself a return trip to the check-in point and a whopping $50 charge for a 3rd piece of checked luggage (thanks AirTran)!
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| That was that bag's THIRD time through the scanner! smh! |
WORD TO THE WISE: If you are a CariCom national (from one of the Caribbean community member islands) PLEASE be smarter than me and walk with your native country's passport, NOT just the U.S. or other naturalized country's passport, so you can join the Trinidad citizen/resident/Caricom national line! It's shorter, faster, just better! This is one time the U.S. passport does not help at ALL. lol
Okay through Customs and out to find a local phone provider's kiosk, and we run into B-mobile's which is the first thing you see in front of you as walk out of Customs. However this late at night the apparently very popular carrier was sold out of the cheap phones and their least expensive available phone was $100 USD, so after standing in that line for what turned out to be no good reason (and lol'ing at the guy wishing to hurry up and clear the line and close up shop before a late flight coming after us landed and sent another wave of incoming masqueraders etc. his way), I headed over to the Digicel kiosk a few steps down. More Murphy's law foolishness as they had the cheap phones but were out of SIM cards. Lucky for me my luck is stronger than Murphy's law and SIM cards arrived while we were still there, so in short order I was set up on my local Trini phone and number with credit for talk time added and ready to roll.
Baggage claim was another line, but moved faster than Customs (is there anything that does NOT move faster than that Customs line? lol) We had taken so long that our bags (myself and one of my crew arrived on the same flight) were already waiting for us off to the side.
We were dying to get near a shower and a bed...but that bed never quite came for me...you'll see why next blog post!
And blog coming soon on the actual guesthouse, La Calypso.
Won't be doing this much verbiage after this cause there is no time...straight photojournals and I try and do a blurb beneath each as to what's going on in it!
Micro-sleeping now cause between Wednesday morning and now, Friday morning, I have gotten about 4 hours sleep...smh all day wednesday on the road and on the plane, all day thursday on the ferry and in Tobago and liming with the latest arrival in my crew, and now trying to NOT neglect the blog in the middle of all the fun in the sun! :-) Good times!
Next: A day in Tobago!
YouTube videos are up, and will keep coming, so check them out, subscribe to my channel, and see live action views of Trinidad, Tobago, and Carnival 2011!
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