I've finally gotten around to putting up some vacation photos. I know the suspense has been eating you alive.
These aren't necessarily in chronological order.
Here's our stuff in the foyer on our departure day. We had a 6:00 a.m. flight, so we had to get up crazy early to get to the airport. I snapped this photo about 4:00, a few minutes before our ride arrived.
Since we were tired from the early wake-up when we got there, we ate a big lunch and just had snacks for dinner. On Sunday night, once we were well-rested and ready to gorge on seafood, we headed to our favorite restaurant, The Lobster Pot. We each had a bowl of conch chowder and the Cayman Trio, which is a piece of grilled grouper, garlic shrimp and a lobster tail. We timed our reservation so we could watch the sunset from our table. Here's the view from the table:
Most afternoons we had snacks on the beach. Hummus. Cheese and crackers. Salami. Stuff like that. After our snacks we'd get in the water and swim while the sun set.
This is some guy at The Wharf, another great restaurant. The food is good at The Wharf, but what the really sell is ambiance since it's right on the water.
Here's a cute girl sampling gellato (sp?) at a place across the street from where we stayed. I had a lemon gellato one night and a Guinness flavored one another night. Yum.
We stumbled upon a tasty beverage at the store. Caybrew is brewed and bottled on the island. It tastes like a Heineken, but for a few bucks less. We made a visit to the brewery one afternoon and had a glass straight from the source. Good stuff.
On Tuesday, we went to Eden Rock to snorkel for a while. With the snorkeling gear on hand, we were able to piece together just the right combination of flippers and mask/snorkel sets. But that left my buddy wearing this old-school Jacques Cousteau mask.
This is the view from the back of the dive shop at Eden Rock. We elected to go there on a day when a handful of cruise ships were in port, which made driving through Georgetown quite a treat.
Later in the week we piled in the car to see more of the island. This is taken from a pier looking back at Seven Mile Beach.
And what would a vacation be without a great retail experience? Grand Cayman finally has its own warehouse store, where you can get a bucket of mayonnaise or a flat screen TV.
Here's a pic in Georgetown as we tried to zip through town. There were five cruise ships in port on this particular day, which means the city was crawling with people.
Here's some nice-looking folks at The Wharf. Our waiter offered to take our picture, and he was very diligent about getting a good one. As in, 10 minutes diligent. 10 minutes standing up in the middle of a restaurant with everyone looking at you diligent. And judging from the way the photo turned out, I think he'll do best by just sticking with the waitering thing.
We stood in line to check in at the airport for two hours. USAir had four flights leaving at roughly the same time and four agents to check everyone in.
Once we'd made it to Charlotte, we went through Immigration, claimed our bags, re-checked our bags and went through security again. We hit the big Chilis for burgers and a cold beverage.
We got home late on Saturday night, only to find out we were locked out of our house. We popped out of bed Sunday morning and ran over to my parents' house to pick up the kids. This is what a little girl who hasn't seen hear mama in a week looks like.
