Breakfast, Beach, and Hot Tub before Noon
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canyonwalkerGrand Cayman Travelog #6
At the Westin, Grand Cayman - Tue, 16 May 2023, 12pm
Today's our first full day in the Cayman Islands, and we're looking to make good use of it. We set our alarms for early this morning then enjoyed shutting them off and sleeping until 8am. For us that felt luxurious. 😅 We dressed and went downstairs for breakfast at the hotel restaurant.
We're normally not breakfast people. I tend to do light, small breakfasts in the room with a protein bar and a bottle of Coke Zero purchased at a convenience store. I do have a bunch of protein bars from home and a can of Coke Zero bought at a store yesterday... but thanks to my elite status with Marriott hotels I also have a fist full of free breakfast vouchers. Hawk and I went down to the hotel restaurant and enjoyed a fairly nice breakfast buffet, comped. With a full breakfast we'll likely eat a snakc lunch (protein bars!) then go out for dinner. Remember that fist full of dollars we got yesterday? Yeah, that's going to last a lot longer thanks to these breakfast coupons.
After breakfast we changed into our swimsuits and headed out to the beach. Again we went for a dip in the water. Again it's not quite bathtub warm but doesn't need a lot of acclimation. We more or less walked right in.
Unlike yesterday we saw none of my coworkers today at the beach. We did see a few at lunch... but nobody else was out on the beach yet.
After a while I'd had enough of wading in the surf and relaxed on a lounge chair while Hawk continued wading and digging for shells. After a while she came in from the water and we headed back across the sand to the hotel.
We washed the sand off our legs and feet at the beach shower then headed up onto the hotel's pool deck. The hot tub was our next stop.
The hotel has two hot tubs. The one we used yesterday felt only "really warm", not hot, and the jets also would shut off or turn on every minute or two. We tried this one today. The jets work well and... the water is hot. Like, so hot it's pretty intense to sit in it when the air temperature is already probably 90° with humidity that pushes it to feel like 100°. We bailed from the hot tub after maybe 10 minutes and headed up to the room to shower and reset for the next part of the day. At 12:30 we're due downstairs to meet a group going snorkeling!
At the Westin, Grand Cayman - Tue, 16 May 2023, 12pm
Today's our first full day in the Cayman Islands, and we're looking to make good use of it. We set our alarms for early this morning then enjoyed shutting them off and sleeping until 8am. For us that felt luxurious. 😅 We dressed and went downstairs for breakfast at the hotel restaurant.
We're normally not breakfast people. I tend to do light, small breakfasts in the room with a protein bar and a bottle of Coke Zero purchased at a convenience store. I do have a bunch of protein bars from home and a can of Coke Zero bought at a store yesterday... but thanks to my elite status with Marriott hotels I also have a fist full of free breakfast vouchers. Hawk and I went down to the hotel restaurant and enjoyed a fairly nice breakfast buffet, comped. With a full breakfast we'll likely eat a snakc lunch (protein bars!) then go out for dinner. Remember that fist full of dollars we got yesterday? Yeah, that's going to last a lot longer thanks to these breakfast coupons.
After breakfast we changed into our swimsuits and headed out to the beach. Again we went for a dip in the water. Again it's not quite bathtub warm but doesn't need a lot of acclimation. We more or less walked right in.
Unlike yesterday we saw none of my coworkers today at the beach. We did see a few at lunch... but nobody else was out on the beach yet.
After a while I'd had enough of wading in the surf and relaxed on a lounge chair while Hawk continued wading and digging for shells. After a while she came in from the water and we headed back across the sand to the hotel.
We washed the sand off our legs and feet at the beach shower then headed up onto the hotel's pool deck. The hot tub was our next stop.
The hotel has two hot tubs. The one we used yesterday felt only "really warm", not hot, and the jets also would shut off or turn on every minute or two. We tried this one today. The jets work well and... the water is hot. Like, so hot it's pretty intense to sit in it when the air temperature is already probably 90° with humidity that pushes it to feel like 100°. We bailed from the hot tub after maybe 10 minutes and headed up to the room to shower and reset for the next part of the day. At 12:30 we're due downstairs to meet a group going snorkeling!
