days 1 and 2 of my trip to the grand cayman islands, mon

DAY 1:
on the first day (monday) we all just kinda hung out at the beach and swam in the beautiful water! it was so pretty. it was crystal clear and the wildlife was awesome! right off the beach there were these giant yellow ring things floating in the water that you could sit on and just relax. but who wants to relax when you could attempt to get 5 people to balance and stand on it and then try to knock each other off. it was a lot of fun!


here are some pics of our first day in the caribbean!


katie was just so excited she had her shades on in the plane! what a cutie! :)

this was the water right off the beach where we stayed...beautiful!


this is my little frog friend, who visited our pool.


this was the view from my bedroom. it was right after it rained. that was something else that was really cool...it rained everyday that we were there. not for long, just short storms of rain, thunder and lighting (so cool!). it did pour pretty hard though. very cool experience to swim in the ocean while the sky is pouring rain and lighting is flashing above!

DAY 2:

another fun and very hot and humid day. did i mention how hot it was? it was hot let me tell you. high 90's during the day and low 90's - high 80's at night. playing tennis in that weather is not so good. it looked like i had just climbed out of a swimming pool...gross! tennis was fun though, as always. i did play quite a lot with my aunt, uncle and cousin. one cool thing: they only had clay courts and one grass court; no concrete. grass was very difficult because the ball pretty much just dies so we pretty much just played on clay. my shoes are still red, but it was totally worth it...it's time for some new shoes anyways. totally a blast though to try something new. it's amazing how different the ball bounces! okay enough about my passion for tennis. on tuesday we did alot of snorkeling, which was really cool. we snorkeled a ship wreck that was right off the coast. very neat! some shopping in town as well...but, it was a pretty laid back first couple of days. katie mostly enjoyed peek-a-boo with justin. pics below.

here was her method:

run over to him shouting "again"
put his hands on his face and walk away until he shouted "peek-a-boo"

then of course laugh hysterically and do it all over again! :)

i have a pretty cute video that i might post later.

well, that's all for now! i'll post some pictures with me in then tomorrow. i just didn't happen to have many from the first few days. :)