Cruise Vacation day 5 - Jamacia

today had a very frustrating beginning.  We got up super early, got ready for our tour, then headed down to the excursion desk to find out what happened if Jon wasn't cleared to get off in time.  then we went below to the medical center to try to talk the DR in to letting Jon off.  We waited for 1/2 an hour and then another 15 min to see the DR and it was a no-go.  He refused to let him off 2 hours early from his quarantine .  So we sent Damon and Andrea off on the tour for a fun day of tubing, ATVing and ziplining without us.  We went back to the excursion desk to get a refund and find something else to do.  There were literally 2 options that started after 10:30 (Jon's release time) so we chose to go to a beach side resort for the day, which sounded better than hanging around the ship.  We grabbed some breakfast pizza, played ping pong and wandered the decks for a while killing time before we headed off the ship to make our bus.

















   The resort was nice enough.  Big pool with bar, restaurant with a buffet at lunch time and a grill with burgers and hot dogs all the time.  They had a white sand beach covered with lounge chairs and a roped off swimming area.  They had kayaks , little sailboats and snorkel gear we could use.  We stopped by the bar for some virgin pina colodas then we signed up for a sailing trip.













  our guide was weird, but he did a good job with the boat and he plucked a little sea urchin right off the rocks for us to hold.  It was cool to see its spines move.
















 After sailing  I paid to have my hair braided and we enjoyed the buffet.







then we we took out a kayak,






  Then we checked out some snorkels and fins to go check out the rocks outside of the swimming area.  It was so coll to see the stingrays, sea urchins, fish, anemones, sea weed and other sea life.  I stayed out for about 45 min but Jon stayed out another 30 min.







 I had more pina colada's and watched him swim.  When he came back, he brought me a present.  a beautiful cream and green sea urchin skeleton.  it is so pretty and fragile.



 After that we had time for a quick dip in the pool and one more smoothie before we dried off and headed to the bus.  The us ride was full of some VERY drunk people.  One of whom kept singing "The wheels on the bus go round and ROUND" at the top of her lungs in a thick accent.  it was pretty funny!


 Once back on the ship we changed into regular clothes and walked around the ship decks to see if we could find Damon and Andrea.  We couldn't so we left them a note to meet us at dinner and took a rest in our room after a day in the sun.







We watched the end of a movie, then we went up to dinner where we finally met back up with our friends.  We shared our days with each other while we waited in line and had dinner.  We didn't get our favorite waiter today, he was off so we got a new guy but he wasn't as good.  After dinner we played a game of dominion and one of castle panic before we decided to go to bed.  We have an early day in Cayman islands tomorrow!