Day 8: Goin Home

Well since yesterday was a verryy long day I wasn’t able to write until today. Yesterday Alyson, Crystal, and I started out the day by going horseback riding. It was kind of a last minute thing and we wanted to get it in before we let at 3:00. We decided to go to Rhodes Plantation for our ride. They picked us up right from our hotel at 9:15 a.m. and we headed out. We had to stop at a couple places along the way to pick up more people too. One of them was from London so we got to listen to her accent which made my day right there. When we got to the plantation they gave us all helmets and started pairing us up with horses. They put me on a horse named Pratt, which reminded me of Spencer Pratt so I didn’t think it was going to be a great relationship.  We left the plantation and headed down a trail that covered a lot of land. We even got to go into the water and take pictures. After about an hour and 45 minutes, we got back to the plantation and were given the choice to swim with the horses in the water or leave and go back. We decided to leave so that we could have another chance to go snorkeling.  Once we returned to the hotel we realized no one wanted to go snorkeling so the three of us decided to go anyway.  Rondel took us out again and we spent about an hour swimming and snorkeling in the rough ocean water. Once we got back we had to finish up our packing and get everything ready for departure. We checked out of the resort at 3:00 and headed to Montego Bay for our flight at 8:00. We went through security and then went into the good part of the airport, the shopping center. We had about 2 hours to waste before we had to get on the plane so we all went our own ways and spent our last hours in the shops. We took off at 8:00 just like scheduled, unlike our first plane ride, and landed in Chicago around 11:00. After that we had the long car ride home and Austin was waiting to pick me up and take me home. I finally hopped into bed at about 4:30 a.m. and fell asleep instantly. It’s crazy to think just yesterday morning I was in Jamaica and I woke up this morning in Wisconsin.