Tues Jan 19th

We were on the first ferry off the boat and we headed straight for our dolphin excursion. 

The dolphin we rode was named Alegria. 

We got to pet, ride and kiss a dolphin, right there in the water behind us. It was way fun! They wanted $250 for pictures though and even when we got them down to $180, I still could bring myself to pay that much. I may regret my cheapness later but as for now I figure we'll take the kids in the future and buy the pics then. Well just have to remember how much fun it was without the pictures. 

Then we took a bus down to the beach and went snorkeling. The water wasn't the clearest, but we saw tons of exotic fish and sea anemones. It was just great swimming in the warm water out in the sun (in Jan!!).  

We ate lunch at a cool local place where tons of iguanas spent their afternoons and a wild chicken named Snickers roamed free. The waiter said he's spent many an hour chasing that chicken but hasn't been able to catch him yet. 

We had remembered the shops being close to the beach so we decided to walk. We were wrong. After several miles of walking, and many a blister later, we finally reached the shops. We only visited a few before it was time to head back to the ship. We took the last ferry back to the ship. I felt like we really maximized our time on the Grand Caymans.