The Dennison-Dalton family: Cayman Island/Cozumel cruise July 2012

I've finally got all the pictures uploaded on the computer so I can write about our vacation. It was awesome! We left out around 11pm on July 13th and headed to Tampa, Florida. It was actually a really easy drive. Tia and Justin tried staying awake with me for the most part since I have to drive most of the time (I get sick.) We made several bathroom stops, eating stops, and even a Walmart stop and still made it to Tampa around 11am. It was perfect timing! Our luggage didn't arrive in our room for a couple hours after the boat left the dock and of course my motion sickness patches were in my suit case. Go figure. But after that it was smooth sailing. :) Our first actual day was a day at sea so we got to hang around the boat, do several trivias, swim, eat, eat more, and more. LOL Day 2 - Then the next day we went to Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. We didn't plan on an excursion because apparently the Cayman Islands are way expensive so that means all the excursions were more expensive too. Plus there wasn't really much we were interested in and the Cayman Islands are all about sting rays and turtles. Whoo hoo! (I'm being sarcastic by the way.) We went to the beach and shopped at the little tourist places and that's about it. But that was actually really fun and simple. Gas there was $5.67/gallon! Day 3 - Cozumel! Cozumel was AWESOME! We got off the boat and went straight to our excursion which was swimming with the dolphins at Dolphinaris and lunch there. We got to touch a dolphin, have a dolphin pull us in the water (which I totally did not want to do), and of course have our pictures taken several times with the dolphins doing other random things. Then we got an "authentic" Mexican meal of fajitas. It was actually dry because they didn't have the salsa and stuff like we do here so we were ready to eat again by the time we got on the boat. But of course before we went back we HAD to go find some Coach purses and Oakley's! We racked up! Then we went to an outside restaurant and had some margaritas and cokes and watched people dance. It was fun and we will DEFINATELY be going there again. By the way, EVERYONE spoke English. So what's up with them not speaking it here in the US?!?Day 4 - Another day at sea and basically sleeping in and eating a lot of food. LOL We had an awesome time though and spent too much money and are already talking about our next trip. :)