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OK, 1 year ago today, Cindy & I were in Jamaica, Runaway Bay staying at the Franklyn D Resort
All Inclusive Family Vacation Resort. It's a small boutique resort, owned by Frank & Angie Rance,
who invited us down there to come and experience this fantastic little place.
And it is! It's small, but it's so fantastic!
Frank designed this resort 20 years ago
The buildings are beautiful! They're suites. They're not just rooms, they're suites.
And the grounds are fantastically landscaped. It is just an amazing place.
And as you can see, there's water, moisture on the leaves because it rains.
Even if you see all the ads for Jamaica showing sunshine,
The fact is Jamaica is a mountainous island in the Caribbean. It's very humid.
Therefore, it gets a lot of rain.
But it's still so warm and the air is so sweet
And at night time when the sun is setting you can here the tree frogs and the crickets
It's just a gorgeous place to be.
So here we are, heading up towards the lobby of this little resort
And in the lobby, they have a bunch of orchids hanging.
I love orchids and so does Frank
Frank is such an amazing guy. He took us out to an orchid farm in Jamaica
That's where they grow the orchids & I'm reminded of this because right now here in Canada, if
you go to Walmart, they're selling orchids & I have no idea where they're grown or where they come from
but I have actually been to an orchid farm in Jamaica, and thank you to Frank.
There's lots of them that I can't even remember unless I run into them to show you.
But things are beneficial to you. A lot of them have health benefits.
You take like the soursop. Jamaicans eat a lot of soursop
Recently a claim has been made that the soursop leaf tree
A tea from the soursop leaf . . . and the soursop bark
That it cures all kinds of cancers.
It's going on emails all over.
I'll show you a soursop tree when we go to FDR.
It's becoming more & more popular & becoming famous as the alternative health medicine to cure cancer
Yes, I'll show you at the Hotel. Soursop
Jamaican's eat a alot of it and it's very common here. It's common in Brazil as well.
And Brazilians swear by it. That it cures cancer. (Music starts)
(Now at Cranbrook Flower Forest) All different varieties
I've never seen this one
Come look at this, I think it's the only plant that flowers green
What are these palms? Royal
And here it is, Roystonea regia.
We're strolling through a Jamaican garden
Breathtaking
It's Cranbrook Gardens. Cranbrook Gardens just outide of Runaway Bay and the FDR Resort
Traveller's Palm
It's amazing. There's that word again. It's amazing.
What's this river called?
It's called The Little River. It's a plant I like. It sheds everything and puts everything back again
Rangipani
It's most beautiful. It sheds everything. It's totally dry and then it just (snaps fingers)
Then it starts blooming all over again. It just goes totally kind of dead
And then jumps up again to life. Beautiful tree.
You can see the river now.