WASTIN' AWAY IN MARGARITAVILLE

This is our second port of call. We had to tender in since the pier can not handle large cruise ships.

We were scheduled to be on the Georgetown side of this Grand Cayman Island, but due to high winds, our Captain took us to Spot Bay which was on the opposite side of the island and dropped anchor there. As you can see, the sea was very calm there.

We didn't think I could manage the tenders, so I stayed on board while Frank went into town.

He said that the tender ride was uneventful and then he had to take a taxi into Georgetown. The taxi was really a mini-van so they could transport more people around the island than they could with regular taxis. His driver drove very fast, and on the wrong side of the road (the Brits would probably say that it was the right side ;-)

When they arrived in Georgetown you could see why they couldn't tender in on that side of the island. The waves were very high as well as rough.

This is where the tenders were originally scheduled to dock and you can certainly see why they didn't!

When they dropped him off in Georgetown it seemed that all the action there was at Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville. The high waves didn't bother the party people at all.

Frank found a new friend but felt dwarfed by his size.

After enjoying a little libation, he took a taxi back to the other side of the island and boarded another tender. He said that the young man who was driving the tender was very personable.

Our ship looked dwarfed in the distance but you could really see how big she when you viewed her from the tenders. She was over a mile away.

After a light lunch we decided to go to a movie in the Screening Room.

It was a tiny theater and only seated about 26 people. I was surprised about that since there were so many passengers on the ship, but most of them were more interested in the ports of call than they were going to the movie.
We saw "State of Play" which was a very good film.

State of Play is a 2009 American political thriller. It is a film adaptation of the critically acclaimed six-part British television serial of the same name, which first aired on BBC One in 2003. The plot of the six-hour serial was condensed to fit a two-hour movie format, with the location changed to Washington, D.C. The film tells of a journalist's probe into the suspicious death of a Congressman's mistress. Russell Crowe plays the journalist and Ben Affleck plays the Congressman.

The supporting cast included Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, and Jeff Daniels. If you didn't catch it the first time around, I would highly recommend that you see it. It's and excellent thriller and itnow available on DVD.
After the movie, we went up to the outside deck to play cards and met a lovely young couple, Mark and Beverly from Granbury, TX. As we visited, we discovered that he had heard of our Eldest son, Jim. Both he and Jim are musicians and went to North Texas and played in the One O'Clock Jazz Band. They were there at different times, however. The professional music world is not that large (Mark is a musician and also a music professor) and both he and Jim also worked with Jerry Hitt in Dallas at different times. Small world!

There was no show tonight, so we had dinner with our table mates and headed for bed. Even when there is no special show in the La Scala Showroom, there is always plenty of entertainment around the ship in the bars and lounges. there's music by the pool, Classical strings in the Aquarium Bar, dance music in Cleopatra's Needle, cocktail piano for listening at the Schooner Bar and the Disco every night, so you can always be entertained if you're not too tired. At our age, the best entertainment of all is a nice, cool bed with crisp, fresh sheets. Ahhh ... dreamland!
See you tomorrow in Montego Bay.
XOXO, Pcasso