Grand Cayman

What a view?!? This was overlooking the spot where we had breakfast on Wednesday morning.

Of course, afterwards Alex got this picture of the kids acting like pirates. LOL

Alex and I neither one can remember what they called these boats, but they are the "taxi" type boats that carried us in to the dock. This was the only place we didn't pull right up and get off the boat. Instead we went down to the third floor and out the side. Kind of seems weird, huh?!?!

Wednesday was the day we booked an excursion for. We wanted to take the kids snorkeling and see the stingrays, so we got in a bus and went to this little neighborhood looking area and boarded another boat. There was lots of iguanas in that little area, which the kids were very curious about.

They were all just laying around sunbathing as we left the dock and headed out to the sandbar.

This was a picture as we headed out to our first stop.

Ashton & Maddie did pretty good with the excursion. Maddie was a little scared of swimming with the stingrays at first but she warmed up and eventually even touched some. Ashton, on the other hand, stayed on the boat after about five minutes in the water.

They were really neat. They'd just swim around you, brushing up against your leg almost like asking you to pet them. We'd touch their underside and they'd go on. The people that took us out had names for all of them. One was pregnant and they held her quite a bit. It was pretty neat. We got some great pictures of Alex holding them too with our underwater camera.

After a little time swimming with the stingrays, we got back on the boat and went to another place and got out and did some snorkeling. Ashton and Maddie both got a little overwhelmed at first but then got in. Maddie was in full snorkeling gear riding on Alex's back and Ashton laid over a life perservor to do his snorkeling while holding my hand. We looked like a wreck I'm sure, but hey.... it worked!

Here is Ashton and Maddie trying out a coconut which they quickly determined was NASTY!

My family right before we got back on the boat for the day.

And we can't leave out our puppy at the end of the night!