Lovely Wife and I went on a vacation a couple months ago. We went to Grand Cayman for a week to get some sun and relax a little. We had a great time but I must caution my American friends that driving on the other side of the road in a country with a friggin roundabout at every intersection can be a little freaky.
I had called ahead to ask if scooter rentals would be an appropriate mode of transportation on the island and the concierge assured me that if we chose to rent them, we should probably head them straight for the hospital. Heeding her advice, we instead rented a rollerskate of a car called a Suzuki Ignis. Now, I am by no means a small person and the Ignis cringed when it saw Lovely and I approaching with all our luggage. The guy at the rental place was really nice and didn't seem bothered by my lack of confidence in my left-hand driving skills.
Before we set out on our adventure he did offer one piece of advice that apparently fell on deaf ears..."The traffic comes at you from the other side." I probably nodded some sort of half-assed acknowledgement to this statement and proceeded on my merry way, 75 feet,to the end of his parking lot where our vacation very nearly ended in a most painful and unpleasant way. Thanks to the quick thinking of Lovely and her ability to scream in my ear from around 3 inches away, we weren't smashed by a large truck that was coming from, wait for it...the wrong side! (Great, now we have no chance at all to win the coveted award for the shortest car rental in the history of ruined vacations.) After that first near death experience our vacation went... well, swimmingly seems an appropriate adjective.
We stayed at a lovely resort on the east side of the island called The Reef. Great people very relaxed atmosphere and lots of rum drinks to take the edge off the heat. We went snorkelling every day and drank too much and I got to take a nap every afternoon. (Yea!)
We did venture over to Six Mile beach one day (tourists and cruise ships and tee-shirts oh my!) to shop and look around. We went for a short sail (complete with rum punch) to play with some stingrays another day which was really awesome.
In a nutshell, it was a fun and relaxing vacation, but that one sentence would have made a pretty boring blog post, don't cha think?
From One Mother, to Another
8 months ago
3 comments:
NOTHING boring about this post, my man. Although, I DO have to tell you:
I misread the first line that you vacationed at The Grand Canyon...and I'm thinking you're a complete idiot 'cause you'll be driving on the wrong side of the road.
And even with my mistake, I was STILL correct! HA!
Hey, didn't anyone explain that the whole point of a RESORT is that you...I dunno....stay in one place? None of this "checking out how the natives live" crap! What makes you think you can drive on the left when you're half in the bag on rum? (Or, would this make it easier? Hmmmm.....)
I would've spent the rest of the vacation concentrating on sliding my feet into flip-flops on the beach, which I hear is hard to do when you keep seeing 8 toes on each foot.
Blogging 2 days in a row? WOOHOO!
Mark Youuuur Baaackkk!! Hey stranger we missed you around here! I'm sooo jealous of your vacation. I would probably sell my left kidney to head off to an island resort right about now (you only need one kidney anyway, right??!).
Glad you avoided major catastrophe and had a great vacation. I hope you drank plenty of rum and soaked up rays for all of us back in here in blogland. =]
♥Spot
Sounds devine!
Still soooo happy to see you in my reader.
I have vacation brain today ... just back from 4 days of camping ... and rum.
Yay!!
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