DCL Day 4...More TURTLES!
After our snorkeling, we rinsed off and went to the freshwater pool. I set my camera in Mrs. Friend's bag at this point (it looked just like mine, we had purchased them together) and so I have no photos of this part of our day. We had a very relaxing time splashing around together. I think we spent almost an hour of our time in the freshwater pool...the boys loved the waterfalls (there were two). Promising to meet our friends later, we headed over to the aviary. All of the big boys held birds (for the second time in a day) and even our LP got an up close and personal visit when one perched on my shoulder while I was holding him.
Then we were moving on to see the turtles. Mrs. Friend flagged me down as we were passing them (they were leaving the turtle area at that point) and handed me my camera (which I hadn't even thought to look for?!). PHEW. I am glad I didn't notice it was missing or I would have wasted a lot of time searching for it.
But back to the turtles...
We all loved them! They were just as interesting on this, our second visit, as they had been the first time. Especially the yearling turtles. Holding a real live sea turtle is totally awesome, DUDE (had to pay homage to Crush).
Even our
Little Prince got into meeting a sea turtle!
Here are our three oldest boys taking a quick break while we all used LOTS of hand sanitizer. Holding sea turtles is fun, but I didn't want to share anything they might be "carrying".
A better picture of another little Lion Tailed Lizard (once again, the boys did beg to bring him home and once again, we said no).
It was while we were cleaning our hands that we came to an important realization. We were SO GLAD that we hadn't taken the Disney tour that stopped here. First of all, you paid WAY MORE than the face value of the ticket (even without taxi driver's discount). When you added in the cost of lunch there and the cost of the taxi ride, we still came out way ahead money wise. Also, they had a group tour of the turtle area and not everyone was able to hold a turtle because they couldn't all hold one in the time allowed before the group moved on. While our family had been able to take all the time we wanted with the turtles, hold multiple turtles each and have a very educational one on one conversation with the turtle keeper, the people on the tour were herded through much more quickly with only a short (two minute) talk by the turtle keeper. I was very glad not to have taken the tour!!
That realization had, we headed into the gift shop and did quite a bit of shopping. My favorite find turned out to once again be a Christmas ornament. This one was a gold plated flat turtle. It too brought back many a vacation memory when I nestled it in the boughs of our Christmas tree this year.
And then, all too soon, it was time to meet our friends and take the taxi back to the tender. Here are some of the many shots I took of the Disney Magic while we were tendering back to the ship.
Upon our return to the ship, the kids once again begged their way to the kid's clubs for a short while before it was time for them to get ready for dinner. This gave dh time to lay down with our
LP and me time to take a nice long shower and still have plenty of time to get everyone's dinner outfits ready. Tonight's dinner attire was a bit more to put together than most other nights...tonight was going to be fun...it was PIRATE NIGHT!
To be continued...
Hell looks a lot prettier than I ever imagined it. 
Awesome snorkeling pictures!!!!!
Hi! It's been a joy 
to read your TR! Thanks!!
I've never heard of it - but if I ever get to Grand Cayman I'll be sure to drive through. LP looks so cute with his mohawk!
Not too sure I need to see that!
They are surprisingly fast! Loved the yearlings!
Who knew that Hell was that beautiful. Love LP's hair and of course his smile. All I thought of when I saw the sea turtles, was "DUDE!" 
