Tales From the Minivan

This morning we woke up to a beautiful site the most gorgeous rainbow hovering over the Caribbean Sea, both Andrew and I agreed that this was something we could get used to! The sun comes up early here as they don’t switch over to daylight savings time, so the sun also sets early around 7pm.

Take a look at these shots, they are stunning!

As most of you know I’ve been cloth diapering Finn, and decided that since I knew we’d have a washer & dryer in our condo that I would continue to do so while away. I remembered to bring a few clothespins and a string to hang his covers while the inserts I dried in the dryer. I took this photo for my fellow CDC members!

We decided to head across the street to pick up some groceries to make some meals here to take advantage of the kitchen in our unit. I was prepared that the grocery prices would be very high, but surprisingly they were very comparable to home with something actually less expensive! The biggest thing I noticed was that frozen, snack and convenience foods seemed to have the highest premiums. The selection of foods was very impressive, I think we spend close to 2 hours browsing around.

**Note for Mackenzie***- take a look at the photo below, I thought you’d like this

Once we got home from the grocery store, we decided to take a walk into Georgetown, which is the “downtown” on Grand Cayman, and home to many of the world’s most prominent financial institutions. They have their own currency, but the US dollar is also excepted everywhere, however it is taken at .80 cents Cayman dollar so in order to buy $1 CI it costs $1.25 USD. Now that the Canadian dollar is at par with the US Dollar, this makes things much more affordable here for us Canadians. The currency is very similar to Canadian money.

After browsing around a few shops and finding a wireless connection to update my blog (unfortunately our resort does not have one ) we had dinner at a restaurant that specializes in Caribbean cuisine (Andrew’s favourite ). Finn also had a quick drink but was more interested in entertaining everyone else in the restaurant. On the walk back to the condo, we ran into Greg out for a walk with his daughter Evelyn and invited them over for a drink and to play. Finn and Evelyn are almost the same size despite a 6 month age difference, so it’s so cute to see Evelyn walking circles around him and Finn trying to figure out how to pull himself upon everything.