Sea Day and Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas

On our last sea day, Jeremy and I went and climbed the rock wall at the back of the ship. 

We both took the easy side and then we tried the medium level side.  The girls went to an empty conference room to do a workout video.

For lunch we went to a Murder Mystery event hosted by The Second City.  It was called "Presumed Murdered" and was kind of lame.  We didn't have very good seats and the story line wasn't very good.  Oh well... live and learn!

But we had good company and the food tasted good!

We took some pictures out on deck this day.  The weather was very nice and the sea was very calm here.

We had thought of bringing out Travelocity gnome but forgot it.  Luckily there was a guy on board taking pictures with his and so we asked if we could borrow him for a moment!  We love this little guy!

That evening after dinner we saw "Broadway Showtime: Encore!" in the Stardust Theater.  Other highlights of the night were playing spoons in the game room, and a late night Quest game in the Spinnaker Lounge.  That was very interesting.  The low point for the night was a pathetic version of Family Feud with a terrible host!

Pictures from the late night chocolate buffet.  There were so many desserts.  Some good, some not so good but a fun experience overall!

Great Stirrup Cay

The next morning we all got ready to head to the private island for the cruise line.  We waited and waited and waited because the water was too rough and they wanted everyone to be safe.  We finally were able to disembark the ship and tendered to the island. 

We all got our lounges figured out and all headed into the water.  It was very cold!  Since it is a private island they require you to wear these annoying life vests.  It was so hard to snorkel with them on!  We had to swim out quite a ways to see the fish but still had a good time.

It was so shallow in some areas we could have walked.  At one point Debbie and I got separated from the Nelson's and we headed in.  They came in a short time later telling us they had seen a jelly fish!  Scary!!!  (See out ship in the background?)

Enjoying our strawberry daiquiris.

It was a very nice day!  It ended too quickly since it took us so long to get there but it was a nice day.

The four of us heading back to the ship.

Once back on board we headed to dinner.  We ate at this restaurant almost daily.  After eating we saw another show in the Stardust.  It was a farewell show including "Oh What a Night!" and the comedian Buzz Sutherland we had seen earlier in the week.  OH BOY!  I was a little concerned about going back since I knew what kind of music it was and we had already seen the comedian.  It was a disaster!  The music went on, and on, and on!  It never ended!  Then Buzz told other people's jokes and went on a sad tirade about children and family!  We were stuck in the middle of the row with no way out!  Good memories... bad experience!  We were so sad tomorrow we were leaving but excited for the Everglades!!!