Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Day 5: Spring Break 2017

Early mornings are difficult so you order room service for breakfast!
They forgot the bacon!  Really, the bacon was missing!  And you know what else annoys me?  When they put hot water in the little carafe AFTER it has had coffee.  The hot water tasted like coffee.  It is a problem ALL the time.  Please have special water only carafes, people!  One of the main reasons I picked this cruise was it was only 5 days and one of the stops was at the Cayman Islands.  Colin had been asking to return to Stingray City.  We all remember that disaster of an experience for him.  He was so excited about going a few years ago, but when we arrived his feet never touched the sand and he had very little interaction with the sting rays.  My dad and I loved it while my mom watched from the boat.  It was a fabulous private excursion that I would do again.  Since it was just the two of us the cost was not economical so we opted for an excursion with the cruise ship.  Another negative about a stop in the Cayman Islands is you must tender to the shore which can take a long time.  One of the perks taking an excursion with the cruise ship is you get off first!  So we were all set and then we got a call they had cancelled all excursions to Stingray City due to high winds.  Bummer!  So we just booked a trip to 7 Mile Beach.  I was led to believe ALL tour companies had cancelled ALL trips to Stingray City which turned out to not be true.  When we got off there were random people/companies selling trips to Stingray City.  We had already paid for the beach trip so I wasn't about to book another trip.  Colin could not understand my logic.  Plus I had no idea if these companies were legit or not.  We met our group and boarded buses that dropped us at the beach.  It was nice.  We found us two lounge chairs and just relaxed and hung out on the beach.  The water was wonderful . . .
Colin was bored with just lounging so we rented a kayak.  He wanted to go alone but due to age I had to go with him.  I tried to explain to him how much harder it was to paddle a kayak in the open water.  He said it would be easy.  Well that lasted about 10 seconds.  Guess who was in the back working hard?  
Thankfully we only rented it for an hour.  I knew from our last trip the Cayman Islands were expensive.  We were hungry so decided to just order a light snack . . . 2 appetizers, 1 soda, and 1 adult drink . . .  $58!  I will admit the spring rolls and wings were great and so was the Mudslide too!
But $58 . . . not so sure about that.  We enjoyed just doing nothing but were a bit disappointed with the excursion knowing what we paid.  You live and learn so next time we will be better prepared.  Of course I spent a lot of time researching the original excursion that was cancelled so maybe next time I keep a back up plan just in case.  We found the never ending tender line  and headed back to the boat . . .
 . . . took a shower and just relaxed.  We were still hungry so ordered room service which took almost 2 hours to arrive at our cabin.  Insane!  Our motto of relaxation continued as we watched mindless television and headed to dinner.

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