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Day 1 Jamaica trip April 2024

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My friend from Vancouver arrived the night before so we could travel on a direct flight from Ottawa to Jamaica together. The international and domestic terminal at Ottawa airport are the same. Our flight was to leave at 10:00 am and boarding was finished at 9:30. It was a great flight I had all 3 seats to myself I really love flying from Ottawa as planes are not packed. We got to Jamaica too early so had to sit on the runaway for a bit. It was beautiful.  We had to book with Westjet because of the direct flight. My travel agent friend Farah at Travitude Travel Group always does a great job of coordinating my bookings especially with coordinating travel with a friend from Vancouver while I live in Ottawa.  My best friend is Jamaican and her aunt who is our age still lives there. My friend and I have been to Jamaica a couple times together we usually stay in Montego Bay. This time we decided we wanted to stay closer to Ocho Rios to be closer to her family. There weren’t too many resort o

September 23, 2018 -Goals Update Part 1 - Get a job

I started drafting this post in June as it was half way through the year and thought it was a good time to do a goal update now it is September and I haven't posted this yet so what was I doing? Working on my goals of course. Should I put the blog on my goal list next year, so I work on it? I have made significant progress on all of the goals from my January 9, 2018 post. You can read  it here  http://www.livingvancouverloca.com/2018/01/2017-year-in-review-and-2018-goals.html  I had three major goals for this year.  January 9, 2018 - Goals for 2018 Summary 1. Get a job, I pretty much took a year long holiday from working and now it is time to get back into the working world. 2.  Get healthier physically which means losing weight considering I put on 15 pounds last year alone losing that 15 pounds would be a great start. 3. Earn $1375 from the internet this is ideal as it goes along with the 52 week savings challenge that I am doing. For more info see the previous posts. Ho