The morning of the second day of our trip, my sister and I had to wake up early to be at the marina in order to get on the boat for our first set of open water dives! Papa Ron was also up early to head out for his first day of scuba diving as well. Unfortunately, we did not take a single camera with us {because we no longer have an underwater camera that can go deep enough for diving, womp womp} and we just didn't think to bring one of the regular ones with us. I wish we would have, though, because that morning on our way out to the first dive site we saw JoJo, the dolphin! He's a MASSIVE dolphin that is local to the island and is always coming up to the boats to see who's aboard {he must love propellers because his whole head/back is scratched up from getting too close to them}.
Anyways, we had to do four open water dives to complete our scuba course and the first two were that morning. We didn't get much time to just explore the amazing-ness that is the Caribbean ocean floor that day because we spent the majority of the time underwater going over all of our techniques and lessons, etc.
While Jen, Dad, and I were all out diving - Peyton, Nick, and Gigi had a little adventure of their own and went out to the condo's private beach for a little fun in the sun.
We returned and scarfed down something to eat quick {diving and being out on a boat makes me surprisingly hungry!} before making our way down to the condo's pool for some relaxation time.
Relaxation time soon turned into naptime on the screened-in porch.
After all of the divers returned and some food made it's way into our bellies, we all high-tailed it back out to the beach and walked and walked and walked until we found a good spot to test out our tent and enjoy some snorkeling!
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| Look how tan my man is! Can you believe it? When we went to the Cayman Islands a few years ago, he was Casper-white. We both did a little pre-tanning this time so we were sure to NOT turn in to lobster-mobsters, ha. |
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| *sigh* this view never gets old. NEVER. |
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| Papa Ron attempting to set up the tent. The hat? The speedos? Our condo key secured around his neck so we didn't lose it? Priceless. |
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| A certain little someone cough*Peyton*cough, fell asleep on the beach while everyone was taking turns snorkeling. Therefore she was carried the whole way back home. Must be nice ;) |
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| Me & Momma (the birthday girl!) |
For dinner that evening we decided to head back out to the marina to a restaurant called Tiki Hut.
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| That bottom picture? Oh lord. I'm pretty sure she made that pose and then I just went with it, haha. |
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| Papa Ron allowing Peyton to dance on tables while we waited for our food, ha. |
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| Peyton picked a flower for my hair, of course. |
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| I made everyone take a picture with their food. I believe I had a cuban panini and it was just "eh". Everyone else loved theirs, though! |
After dinner, we hit up the grocery story to find a birthday cake suitable for Momma's big day!
And then we sang to her, of course :) -- sorry for the low quality picture below. I took it while I was also recording the whole sha-bang.
Love you, GiGi. To the Moon & back!
This concludes Day 2.
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