2016 Cruise: Day 5: Sea Day and Formal Night

On Day 5 we were supposed to spend the day in Grand Cayman at the Royal Palms resort.  Unfortunately, this was all we would see of Grand Cayman.

The ship cannot dock in  Grand Cayman.  Instead, you have to take a boat called a tender from the ship to the port.  The weather conditions have to be perfect and the cruise ships often miss this port.  There was an incoming front so the port closed to tenders and we were unable to see Grand Cayman.  I was so disappointed but now we have an excuse to come back!

So we went down to the Solarium around 9:30.  It was packed and I got lucky and got the last three chairs in the shade.

It was much cooler once the aforementioned front came in. Ben said the pool was heated on this day but I never went in and just stuck to the hot tubs.

We sat and talked about dinner as this was the second formal night. The boys went to the gym and when Ben came back, he said our choices were 5:30 and 8:30. I told him we needed to do 5:30 because I wanted to see the In the Air cirque de soleil show at 8:30.

So we settled in for another day of relaxing and tubbing. I wanted a lighter drink this time so I started with a Bahama Papa which was rum, banana liquor, orange and pineapple juice. It was yummy.

Later the front did indeed pass by us. It got windy and cold and everyone started shutting the windows in the Solarium.

Around 2:45, I decided the steam and sauna would feel good since it was so cool so I spent about 20 minutes in there and went up to the room to get ready for our second formal night.

Dinner was lobster and dessert was the grand mariner soufflé and baked Alaska.  Ben had three lobster tails--more on that later!

Ben and I don't usually do the pictures on cruise ships but this ship had a pretty staircase so I asked Ben if we could go and take the formal pictures after dinner.  Later when we went to look at them, we found out a single digital image was $25 which we thought was too expensive.  But Nick had snapped a few on his iPhone for us.

After dinner, we decided to go see Voytek at Boleros until it was time for the In the Air show.  I got a wine cocktail which was really good and I liked it as you can see.

Cheers!

We went to the theater for the 8:30 show.  But the boat was really rocking and after eating so much at dinner, Ben started to feel bad so I watched the show by myself and really enjoyed it.  I got up to the room around 10:00 and Ben was feeling better but we called it a night.  Tomorrow we would be in Cozumel!