A Day in the Life

This morning, we awoke early at 8.30am, just in time for breakfast to be delivered to our cabin. I was hungry so my fruit bowl, scrambled eggs, toast, 3 danishes, coffee and orange juice went down quite well . By 10.30am we were boarding the tender across to Georgetown, Cayman Islands, it was 25 degrees, slightly overcast with the sun breaking through and the water was the most beautiful azure blue. I was looking for a jewellery shop ashore, but couldn’t find any, so we strolled around for a while the settled into Jimmy Buffet’s for a cool beer. By 12.30pm we were skipping back toward the ship and after dumping some junk in the cabin, we headed up to the buffet for lunch and an hour relaxing in the sun before catching a movie, Kite Runner, it was quite good. There was barely time for a nap before getting ready for our dinner reservation at 6.00pm. Dinner was excellent, I had a smoked chicken and asparagus terrine, followed by a Caesar salad, followed by some nice fettucine, then an excellent Salmon steak and chocolate cake with icecream, which I couldn’t quite finish. The chocolate cake was a surprise to celebrate my retirement which along with some additional surprises back at the cabin, made it all a really nice day.
We didn’t do anything special on Grand Cayman as we’ve been to Cayman Islands two or three times before. Where we are tendered in is right downtown Georgetown, shop after shop and not much else. What I hadn’t expected was the cross section of people on board, few walkers or wheelchairs, I’d guess the majority are in their sixties with a good number of youngsters (in their fifties). We’ve met so many nice people, from all walks of life, quite a few Canadians but mostly Americans and a few miscellaneous others. Right now we.re having an early night, it’s about 10.30pm and we’re in the cabin watching ‘7lbs’ on the dvd player we brought with us, I’m glad we brought it, it works great. Tomorrow another sea day as we head South to the Panama Canal.

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