Weekend Warrior

I never I would have expected my weekend to go down the way that it did. I am not making up any of the follow, I wish I was.

Friday night began with me meeting Matt in town so we can make our way to a block party in honor of the Medal of Honor recipients that were on the island. Another friend was escorting a Medal of Honor recipient during the week so I had to go meet this man after the stories I had heard. I also did not want to miss the opportunity to meet such an incredible group of men. I was nervous and felt like I was meeting celebrities. I hugged them with huge smiles on my face. The night continued without the recipients but it did include their grandsons. This is when I witnessed one of the best karaoke songs ever. 

 The next morning Matt and I woke up early enough to hop on a party boat to be in a local singers music video. This was a 8 hour booze cruise with water slide, plat forms to jump off, water trampoline, and any other water toy a person with a beer in their hand could ever want.

After the party boat experience we had to class up the night by hitting up one of the only night clubs on the island. The boys I was with wanted to get VIP bottle service so that is what we did. The group of us had our own booth and waitresses serving us drinks from our own bottles of vodka. This was my first but will not be my last bottle service experience.

Now for the part of my weekend that I never thought would happen, someone tried to extort me. On Saturday night during my VIP experience I lost a ring. I did not notice it was missing until the next day (it had been in my purse not on my finger). I dump out every bag, look in my car, crawled on the floor of a night club, and ask anyone that I interacted with on saturday if they had seen my ring. In a last attempt I put an ad online on a lost and found site. I get a response within 3 hours from someone saying they had my ring. The short version of the next 9 hours is as follows: They were being offered $200 for my ring and wanted to know what reward I was willing to give. Communications stopped when I wouldn't offer $200. I talked with the 5-0 and filed a police report and learned that they would not be charged with stealing but it was actually extortion in the second degree. The people with my ring freaked when they learned the cops were involved and were now willing to return my ring. We set up the drop point in a well let place. I had several people offer to be my back up for the hand off. One was ready to beat down the people I was meeting and another was offering to bring along his spear gun.  I opted for the more cool headed LTs to come with as backup. I sat in a chair in the lobby of a hotel and waited for my ring to be returned while my body guards sat behind me in a secret service kind of way. The important part of the story is I got my ring back! The police are still pursuing the case since extortion is a felony. 

I feel as if the island is initiating me and I can't wait for it to be over. Things have been incredible but I wouldn't mind it slowing down a little.