Dropping Anchor at Grand Cayman

Thursday, April 7, 2016

We were quite surprised to get up to the Windjammer Café this morning and not find a whole lot of people.  The advantage was we could find a nice round table by the windows overlooking the harbor and part way through the meal we were joined by Dan and Patti Johnson.  As we were finishing, Gary and Dianne Metcalfe joined us as well so we had fun just chatting for quite awhile as the noise level increased greatly.  The ship was pulling into Grand Cayman

to drop anchor and everyone who wanted to get off had apparently decided to wait till the last minute for breakfast so they could be full when they left and not need any food till dinner.  By 10:30 most all of the passengers were awaiting tenders and by around 11:15 the ship was quite empty leaving lots of quite spots for those of us interested in simply enjoying the ship.

Ken and I decided to get in our walk by staying in the air conditioning and walking from one end of the 6^th floor to the other enough times to complete 2 miles.  My fitbit provided the info for us – and after 6 rounds we had accomplished it seeing all the interesting spots along the way and very few people.

I had fun taking a few photos of various spots on the ship.  The Solarium is the adult pool area that is under a glass roof so not only quiet but also away from the burning rays of the sun. 

Dan and Patti have been enjoying the chaises there where he can have his foot up and ice it easily.

Since I wanted one of the rock climbing wall, we trekked up to the 13^th floor where we could see itand enjoy a round of miniature golf as well.

On the way back to our room we passed through the pool area and got this shot

From there we worked our way further back to the rock climbing wall 

And decided to play a round of miniature golf that was set up just across the above bridge.

Ken beat me by two strokes!

We then began to work our way down from the thirteenth level stopping on the eleventh floor near the glass elevators.   There we stepped out on one of the balconies that juts out into the Centrum area to show what it is like from the top floor(11) looking down to the floor at the bottom (4)

We then took the glass outside elevator down to our floor (8) enjoying the view out toward the harbor.

  

We joined Dan and Patti again for lunch but then just relaxed in our room reading for the remainder of the afternoon.

Following dinner, we joined several couples at the evening trivia game which involved identifying the place (name of it) as well as the state or country where it was in 40 different pictures.  Our group did pretty good but came up several points short of the winning team.  Still it was fun seeing pictures of so many sites we have visited or hope to see one day including the statues at Easter Island, Machu Pichu in Peru, and the Brandenburg Gate in Germany.

I wanted to check out the R & B singer in the theater but chose to sit in a very back seat in case I didn’t want to stay – and by the middle of the second song I was off for one more walk around the ship before calling it a night.  Tonight we set our clocks back again to Eastern Daylight Time so we can live by that tomorrow so we lose an hour tonight.

This is the cute towel sculpture we found waiting for us when we returned tonight