Tuesday, March 24, 2009

You wanna see the beach?

So, here's the beach. This is Grand Cayman's 7 Mile Beach. On board the ship they encouraged you to book a shore excursion that would get you there for about $35 each. Cheaper to rent a moped. Then, once on shore there were taxi drivers begging us to hop in for a $4 dollar ride each to the beach. I asked one driver which way the beach was. She pointed. We walked that way. Turns out the first mile of the beach was just a 15 minute walk away.

You will have to settle for this swim suit shot. All the others we took were inappropriate. . er I mean had Kashann in a bathing suit in them.

After Brent snorkeled for a half hour and got his sunburn, we read our novels we had picked up in the ship library. We almost made it through two novels each. We had to give them up the last day without finishing the last ones. Brent only had a couple chapters left. It was sad.

Does anyone have "The Host" for me?
And here is the Norwegian Jewel. For anyone taking a cruise let me give you my take on NCL. We have taken three other cruises before -NCL, Princess (that was Brent's), and Carnival.
Good entertainment most nights and not near as skimpy or crude as a Carnival cruise. Comedians weren't allowed to swear like they did on Carnival.

The Food was excellent and in my opinion better than the Carnival Cruise I took before. But it's Freestyle Dining now on NCL. That means you can eat whenever and wherever you want. Four of the restaurant choices are free. The other 8 restaurants they MAKE YOU PAY FOR???? They have a $10-25 charge per person and unfortunately every single one of the shrimps Brent and I were salivating about on the drive down ended up in those other restaurants that we refused to pay for. I am still trying to get over that one. A cruise just isn't a cruise for me if I don't eat at least one plate of shrimp a day.

3 comments:

Stephanie Evans said...

Kashann... love your blog! I have The Host for you. I can send it to church with my husband this Sunday if someone else doesn't get you one sooner. I'm interested to hear what you think of it. So glad you had a fun Spring Break! Bummer about the shrimp.

Tracy Aldous said...

Sounds like an awesome trip! Glad you got to get away for a week. Thanks for the info on NCL - good to know. Preston LOVES cruises, and the food is one of the most important things!

Candi & Ezra said...

Great pics! Looks like you had a blast! Good for you for pulling it off! You guys deserve it!