and finally continues.

Sorry it has been soo long since my last post.  There were pictures that needed to be scanned in and i just kept putting it off.

Our final destination was Grand Caymen Islands.  It was GORGEOUS!!

Warning!!  This may be picture overload, but it was way to fun to not take a lot :)

This is the view from the front of our tender boat.  The cruse ship couldn't dock due to the reefs so it just had to anchor and we got transported to the shore.

This is what our tender boat looked like.  There were 2 tenders leaving from the boat at once.  I can't even imagine if there were only one how long it would take.

The cabin of the tender boat.

Us waiting to take off to the shore :)

View of our boat from the tender...Zach stuck his head out the window to take this picture.  I was way nervous considering he doesn't have the best track record with cameras and water on this trip :)

Here are some more gorgeous shore pictures.

Eric and Sara on the boat to take us out to the Sand Bar to see some Sting Rays :)

We are soo excited :)

We had to wear these snorkel vests.  We are being good tourists and making sure they are all blown up so we won't drown :)  They actually said that we didn't have to blow them up if we didn't want to, we just had to wear them due to there safety guidelines :)

This is from the boat taking us to the stingrays looking back to the shore...if you look closely, you can see our ship in the back ground.  We traveled almost the whole way across the island and we could still see our boat on the other slide.  

Zach looking cool for those sting rays :)

Standing on the sand bar ready to see us some sting rays.  It was kinda scary walking around because we had to do what they called the sting ray shuffle.  He said that if we picked up our feet and stepped on one (since they bury them selves under the sand) then we would get stung.

This was our guide, I don't remember his name.  The sting ray he is holding is Cleo :)

He is showing us the barb on the sting rays.

The underside of the sting ray spiting out water.  We had to take the picture with the random guy, because they aren't suppose to lift the rays out of the water.  There were "sting ray cops" there...if that is what you want to call them...making sure that everyone was following the rules.  We all lined up blocking the police while the guide lifted Cleo up for all of us.

Giving us ready to hold Cleo.

My first attempt at holding Cleo.

Me holding Cleo!

Me and Zach with Cleo

Zach holding Cleo

Giving Cleo a big kiss :)

 

Eric and Sara holding Cleo

These are just some cool pictures of the sting rays.

This is Zach's favorite picture that we took (I didn't know they were taking a picture obviously ^_^). I didn't like how it felt when the sting rays would rub up against my legs. It was kinda creepy feeling.

On the boat after swiming with the sting rays, on our way to the spot that we will be snorkeling.

I honestly don't know what Zach was doing in this picture.

Waiting in line to get on the tender boat to take us back to the cruise ship

Enough of picture overload for now...to be continued in the next post :)