What's a Cayman?

Today was Georgetown, Grand Cayman. What exactly is a Cayman?

No matter. Our plan today was to get breakfast, grab our stuff and tender off, and then walk around.

We did just that. We went to Luminae for breakfast and then grabbed our bags, and headed to Michael's club where Avaline, the concierge, would escort us to the tender. Beth, realizing she'd forgotten headed back to the room, while I went in. There was another woman there waiting for her husband. When Beth arrived, the other person said for us to go since she didn't know how long he'd be. She took us down to the tender (from the port, not the ship), and off we went.

We arrived at the port entrance, and quickly left the port area. We decided to just take a walk, and arbitrarily turned left. We walked past a few stores, and then saw a bus stop. It mentioned the bus went to some of the well known spots, and was 2.50 per person. We decided to take a bus ride, assuming it could get us back in a timely manner.

We only waited a few minutes and a bus pulled up. The driver told us he does go back and it would be 5.00 each round trip. The total time would be about 45 minutes. Since we had about 6 hours before we had to be back on this ship, that seemed fine.

The bus ride was fun - the driver pointed out a few things along the way, including a new hotel going in, the hotel where the Queen stayed when she visited (apparently the only hotel at the time), turtle farm, and the entrance to the rock formation known as hell. Periodically, the driver would stop and back up to pick up someone he'd noticed walking along the street. Very nice. He also varied his route to take someone to the grocery store.

As promised, he got back to Georgetown, and dropped us off near the port. We noticed a peace memorial building, so we checked it out. There was a plaque from Britain thanking the Jamaican troops for their help with WW II in Palestine, so I guess Grand Cayman was part of the jurisdiction of Jamaica back then. We then got a coffee from a local shop, and walked around the port area for a bit (with the required stop at Del Sol, of course). Following that, we took the tender back to the ship.

Before lunch, we decided to head up to the spa to see about facials to use our OBC. Their special of the day was an Oxygen facial for about 70.00 off the 200+ price. We said we could do that. She had an appointment at 3 and one at 4:30. We said 4:30 wouldn't work, but 3:00 would. While trying to figure a different service for one of us, she said she could do one now and the other at 3:00. So I took the current (12:30) one, and Beth the 3:00.

I had a young woman from Poland and had a nice chat while I did the facial. At the end, she said that it probably wouldn't be worth her time to try to suggest products. I agreed, and away I went.

After that, it was lunch time so we headed up to the buffet. We easily found seating in the back, and enjoyed lunch.

After lunch Beth went off to the spa, and I headed down to Michaels for afternoon tea before our little see the suite party. Beth eventually joined me and we spent some time with our cruise critic friends and our hallway neighbors. At just before 5 we headed back to the room.

Yesterday, we'd asked our butler to for some cheese and crackers for our friends, as well as wine glasses and cork screw. He assured us he'd take care of it.
So, back to the room, not only were there wine glasses and a corkscrew, there was a bottle of Prosecco, a platter of shrimp, chocolate covered strawberries and of course the cheese and crackers. At 5 promptly Ryan and Melissa arrived and were, needless to say, quite impressed with the spread. We enjoyed a nice hour chatting with them, and then they were off to their specialty dinner. We gave them our second bottle of wine, and the shrimp platter.

We decided to see the show - it was a Broadway Cabaret. The lead singers and dancers did a bunch of old songs from somewhat obscure shows. How many have seen Smokey Joe's Cafe, or Man of La Mancha, and the favorite Songs for a New World (has anyone even heard of that one?). The only current show they did was Aladdin. Overall, fairly ho hum.

We had a bit of time until our dinner at Murano, so we relaxed in the room.
>br> At 8:30 we arrived at Murano. We were seated at a table at the back of the restaurant, in a very cosy location. We shared a goat cheese souffle, I had the spinach salad and Beth the pear in puff pastry. We both had the Rack of Lamb for our entree. For dessert, she had the chocolate souffle and I the Grand Marnier. All was excellent, although I thought the spinach salad was better on the Reflection.

We had a nice long chat with our waiter after dinner about his life in Romania. Thus ending a very nice day.