The pictures are developed! Vacation wrap-up!

This really was one of our best vacations to date. Two weeks was the perfect amount of time to be away and relax. And, it's enough time to start missing home. Grand Cayman is a wonderful island with every modern convenience you need - even food delivery and wireless Internet! The people are the friendliest we've encountered in the Caribbean.

Highlights (in no particular order): snorkeling, fine dining, stingray city, tennis, our anniversary, and Valentine's

Sea creature count - in order of awesomeness: (1) nurse shark - twice! (2) spotted eagle rays (3) turtles (4) squid (5) eel (6) barracuda (7) puffer fish

Valentine's Day - "Private" sunset and candlelight dinner on the beach

OK - it really wasn't all that private until after the sun went down. But, we got to drink champagne and watch the gorgeous sunset...with the soundtrack of rowdy 10-year old boys and their drunk parents. Food wasn't the best we had on the island but romance was in the air. We capped off our dinner with a real Cuban cigar.


People in the background = not-so-private


Valentine's Day Sunset


Enjoying our after dinner coffee & tea


Ending Valentine's & Vacation with a Cuban Cigar

Stingray City - Second Trip

If you remember from our previous blog, we tried to go to Stingray City but the weather conditions were pretty windy and the waves prevented us from really spending quality time with the rays. So, we decided to try again when the weather was better and I'm so glad that we did!


Chris & me with a ray


Underbelly of a ray - looks like a smiling face


Lots of rays waiting to be fed squid




Krystal holding a stingray

Miscellaneous Underwater Snorkeling Photos

These are the highlights of our underwater pics.


Harris sea monster


Sea turtle - one of 3 that we saw


Spotted Eagle Ray - not the same as the stingrays at Stingray City


Krystal - swimming with the fishes


Barracuda - we saw a couple of these guys


We saw a lot of these but aren't sure what they are. They look like little stingrays without the stinger. They are cute though!


Coral and bright blue fishes