Disney Cruise Day 3 Grand Cayman 101314

Today was our first Port Day.  At 9AM we were allowed to get off the boat in the Grand Cayman Islands.  We had prebooked a port adventure for the kids to go swim with sting rays and pet dolphins. We took a 30 minute boat ride to an area called Sting Ray City which was a shallow area far off shore.  This is a common place to find sting rays and sure enough there were many!  The water was clear as day and waist high.  Sting Rays were everywhere.  They would swim right up to you and lay against your back or your stomach.  Our captain had squid to feed them and Noah and Paul fed them many times.  They described them like cats how they like to come and brush the back of your legs gently.  It was a really neat experience.  We spent about an hour there and then headed back into the shore.

Once we were back we got into the water at Dolphin Cove where our group had a dolphin named Luna who came to each of us and gave us a kiss, danced with us and we could pet his back and his belly.  It was really sweet.  The kids were not old enough for some of the other dolphin adventures yet and this was good enough.

We fnished our time there and headed back toward the port in Grand Cayman.  We didn't have very much time left but we stopped for a local bite to eat and Paul and I tried Conch which was very good.  

We headed back to the boat for the acclaimed Disney Cruise Pirate Night.  In every state room were red Pirates of the Carribbean bandanas and I brought along garb for us to dress as pirates as well.  Everyone on the WHOLE SHIP dresses as a pirate.  It's a really fun experience to see how creative people are with their costumes.  After dinner at 9:30 there was a Pirate Party on Deck of the ship.  It was a lot of singing and dancing and then Capt. Hook repelled down into the party claiming he was the victor but in true Disney style Mickey came zip lining in and saved the day.  As soon as Mickey proclaimed victory the sky lit up in a massive display of fireworks.  Our waitress told us that Disney is the only cruise line allowed to have fireworks on board.  

Again we were exhausted! Bedtime!