When I left off, we had just finished up a fab-u-lous day at sea...and with our Mickey wake up call at 7am we started our Sunday at Grand Cayman. Since we have an inside room, I can never tell if it's day or night. I knew we wouldn't be docking at Grand Cayman, because there is no dock...you have to tender. So the girls and I had a quick room service breakfast of cereal and OJ and we decided to get dressed early and walk around the ship and took some photos.
To tender in, you have to meet at a location, for us it was in the theater where you watch the movies. On our way there we ran into Mickey...yea Mickey...
At the theater, you get a ticket and have a seat in the theater and then when an empty boat is there at the side of the ship, you walk down the 10 or so flights of stairs and get onto the little boat. Well I have to tell you, the tender was my least favorite part of the whole cruise. The way into Grand cayman, the skies were dark and threatening to rain...boo hiss... and by the time we got off the tender from Hell, it was raining, just drizzly.
After we got off the tender, we had about 2 hours to kill.
We rain in between the raindrops and did some shopping.
I had an excursion planned so we had a time limit... After I looked in the shops, I decided to have a quick lunch with the girls to kill time. We found a great little spot called Breezes and had a seat. It was on the second floor, and had a view of the ship. Well it would have been a great view but for all the rain, I could barely see it. And to make matters worse, I sat under a air conditioning vent that was dripping water on me, so I had to move to another seat..grr...The staff was very friendly
and the food was okay. The girls totally wasted their meals. Lex had grilled cheese and fries and a chocolate smoothie and Ireland had fish and chips (fries) and a mango smoothie,
I had coconut shrimp, steamed veggies and some kind of rice with stuff in it. Yeah I know...great description..but I can't remember what it even tasted like. LOL.
Well 68 dollars later...yup I said it. almost 70 dollars for that stupid lunch and NO ONE even at anything. Oh well, we're on vacation right...
Well about the time we were done, we headed back to the little port area to meet our group for the Island Tour. We checked in and chatted with some friends...you all know who you are (waving hello) and we got on line to walk through the rain to our bus that would take us around the island.
Our driver was nice and he pointed out different houses, like the govenor's house and the oldes house in Grand Cayman, and all of the expensive time shares and condos. Well I can't remember where we went first, but I think it was the turtle farm.
It was a really cute place that I would have loved to spend the day at. They had turtles of all ages, that they raised to replenish the ocean and to sell for meat. Nice huh? But the girls got to each hold a turtle that I estimate to weigh about 8 pounds. They were heavy little suckers and as soon as you pick one up, they started flapping their flippers. I honestly don't know how the girls hung on to them at all without dropping them.
Now this is where the nurse in me comes out, I forgot to bring the sanitizer...eeeekkk!!!!! thankfully someone let me use theirs, all I kept thinking of was Salmonella...and we didn't need that. Well after we saw the little turtles, we were let around to where the BIG turtles lived. HUGE!! That's all I have to say. I have never seen one that big before. Well this whole time it had been drizzling and we were trying to make the best of it. Well while trying to film Ireland petting the turtles, I told her to just pet their backs, because they might bite, just as it said it, Mr. Turtle must have been craving some McDonald's french fries, because he chomped Ireland's little finger. It wasn't that deep, but bled pretty good. Poor girl. Someone gave her a sanitizing wipe, but it had alcohol in it and burned. She sure had a story to tell later.
Well in the gift shop, Ireland picked out a little green glass and marble turtle and Lex had a fit, because there were no stuffed turtles to be found. She pitched such a fit, I told her to go wait in the lobby and wait until I was finished. I bought Ireland's turtle and found a little stuffed on for the brat, I mean Alexis..LOL.
We got back on the bus and I surprised her with the turtle
and she still sleeps with it...anyway, we headed to a place that, let's just say, if this is all Grand Cayman has to offer, I never have to come back.
It looks like an old house that someone remade into a tourist trap. The place is called Hell.
I guess someone called it that because of some bird story...I think it just looks like Hell would look.
All it is, is a boggy area that is under a few inches of water and a rare form of black coral grow there.
The coral is interesting...too bad they didn't sell the coral in the gift shop. Anyway, during our lecture about Hell, the kids thought it was funny to start saying hell and one of them...it could have been mine...hee hee...walks up to the tour guide and says...WHAT THE HELL IS THIS PLACE?...it kind of funny...
Our tour guide also pointed out a local hanging out in the tree...
After our trip to Hell was over, we headed back to the ship.
In the little port building, Disney was so nice to have dry towels for us beacuse we were soaked. It was terrible, and to make matters worse our tender back wasn't as nice as the first one. As if they could get any worse...this one was soaked and we used our dry towels to dry off seats for us, and it made this horrible sound, like when you accidently restart your engine of the car. It was terrible. But the girls did meet some Disney employees on the ride back. They were 3 girls who all looked about 20. They were from different parts of the US. They were very nice.
After we got back on board and changed our clothes, the girls wanted a snack, so we ordered room service and ate in the room. Then we all headed to the lounge area to play Bingo, I didn't win, but got a cute keychain...and for all you
DCL Bingo players...let's do it together....B-11, B-11...oiy! LOL
After Bingo, I noticed they had a cute beach scene set up in the atrium for photos, so I dressed up the girls and got their photos taken. These are my favorite photos of the whole trip. Then we made a run for it and just caught the beginning of the show for the evening..Twice Charmed. It's like the Cinderella story but with a twist. It's a wonderful show and we were right in the front!
After the show..we saw you know who again...LOL....He's everywhere!!
We went up to the deck so the kids could eat again..this time more chicken fingers and then the kids went to the kids club for a while for a glow party. They all got glow necklaces and danced in the dark.
That's pretty much what Mommy does after a couple of Long Island Ice Teas...LOL..Just kidding (ahem)
Then I picked up the kids after their party ended and we headed off to bed, after some quick showers.
The animal of the day was a stingray, but our Mousekeeper decided to get creative...
He made them a stingray...sorry no photo, and two turtles and two duckies. It was nice of him.
Coming up next...How much soda can Lexie drink before she blows...sorry..sick huh? And do Monkey's really have gold teeth?
my youngest daughter would be in heaven with dresses like that.
Then we go on the cruise last week, and everytime I see Brent i think, "He looks REALLY familiar!". Still, nothing clicks! Until I started reading your TR-
Thanks SO MUCH for sharing all of this!
