DAY 3 GRAND TURK

MONDAY-GRAND TURK DAY!!! WOO HOO 

Bang, Clang, Whisk, Boom...4am and this is what I'm hearing. Oh my gosh, what the heck am I hearing and why does it always sound like it's coming from my balcony? If the galley is up one floor, wouldn't it sound like it's coming from the ceiling?

I was up at 6:30am and getting the family up and ready for breakfast. We headed to the buffet by 7am where we would find the entire ship up there trying to eat before getting off in Grand Turk. It was pretty crowded and it was hard to find a seat.

We pulled in to port at 8am sharp and off we went to enjoy our day. Today we had decided to rent a golf cart and explore the entire island. To read my review of this day and places to go, click the following tab:

It was 3pm and we were starved and decided to head back to the ship. 

Of course I was taking pictures along the way.

Last time we were here there was a huge line to get back on the Pride right before all aboard. I was kind of pleasantly surprised that there wasn't a line formed yet. There didn't seem to be a whole lot of people still sitting on the beach and at the point we left the pool, most people were gone already.

When we approached the ship, there were several different gangways to get on. Since we were staying on the one at the aft of the ship, we decided to go ahead and walk down that way. Once we arrived, they told us that it was for the crew only, but go ahead and get on. They dinged us in and up one floor we went and we were instantly back at our room and heading to the shower.

There were 12 people missing and they made numerous calls for them. We didn't pull out until 4:30pm, so I guess they waited long enough.

We went to find some food and ....OF COURSE, the Lido buffet closed at 3:30pm and would not open back up until 6pm. There's NO WAY we could wait that long to eat. We were starving after only eating the one $20 plate at BOHIO. Our only option at this point was Guys Burgers of course.

As we were sitting at the table, I was discussing what we should do later that evening and Sakari was telling us what she would like to do once we were done eating...but the hubby, well he must have been day dreaming or something because it was quite apparent that he was not paying attention to one word we were saying.

Then he says, "I do believe I see some whales!" Um...say what? He points out in the water right in front of us and says "watch"...and watch we did. We would see them over and over come up in the water and spray water in the air. It was amazing to watch. It looked like there were two of them and from them rising out of the water some and the size of the sprays, we assumed a mommy and baby were swimming side by side.

JUST MY LUCK!!!! I had ran both of my batteries dead on my cameras and they were upstairs at the room charging. The only thing I had to work with was my phone. I guess it's better than nothing, but of course it's very slow when it comes to a shutter speed. So...every shot I tried to get was after you couldn't see any of the whale back itself, but only the spray and of course it was no clear. But, I'm sharing my whale pictures anyhow...

The spray is located in the pictures right above my name tag in them...just in case you can't figure out my blur of a mess picture.

Of course it didn't help that I also had a glass in between me and the picture I was trying to get, so there was a bunch of glare too.

They were swimming in the opposite direction that the ship was going, so we decided to move upstairs to see if we could still see them and get some pictures without the glass in the way. Of course, this never happened...we didn't see them anymore. Everyone on our roll call was reporting seeing the whales and taking pictures. It was such a beautiful site. Some day we are going to go whale watching, on a boat as an excursion, and it's going to be awesome I'm sure. Sakari just loves whales...she has an entire collection of them and can name them all.

We headed up to the sports deck and Sakari wanted to go on the ropes course. They were closed. I'm not really sure why because I personally didn't think it was that windy out and I had definitely done a ropes course on the Getaway and Breakaway in a lot more severe wind than this but whatever (and yes I did have the Funtimes with me and they were supposed to be open).

We settled for some putt putt since we hadn't got a chance to do this yet.

It was a pretty cool little putt putt course and actually 2 floors. When you hit a certain section, you then take it upstairs a level to play. Then you hit the ball into a certain hole and it winds down a "bubble gum machine" clear tube and ends up back down below for your final shot. Pretty cool.

After putt putt, Sakari and I would play a little corn hole. The hubby tried first and was standing back real far. He wasn't doing too well and I'm pretty sure this is probably the first time he had ever played. I was laughing at just how far off he was and of course he's going to dare me to "try it" because it's not that easy. I tried, I got over 50% of them in...now what??? He told me to step back, I did and still got several of them in. Hey, what can I say, I'm a good aim.

I really love how colorful they have the sports deck decorated. Once again, these weird looking hard plastic chairs are actually comfortable. Seriously! I wouldn't mind having a few of them.

We decided to head downstairs for something to drink. We passed our options...

and kept going. I bought the pop package for us, so might as well get some use out of it.

We headed down to the pool deck and I would send the hubby for our drinks...since he's the red card newbie and all.

He's giving me that look like "You send me to get drinks and you're within a few feet of me still?"

I got comfortable in a lounge chair, where I would decide I really didn't feel like moving...for the rest of the night. LOL

The Dive In movies was going to have Jurrasic World on and we had taken Sakari to the movies to see it when it first came out. She loved it and had to tell us what every single dinosaur in the movie was called. She just amazed me. She said she wanted to stay and watch it instead of going to the kids club and that's what we decided to do.

We were sitting in the back row, right beside the Blue Iguana and we had to endure them making the popcorn. Oh my it smelled so good. But, they would not start handing it out until the movie started at 7:30pm.

I knew from previous experience, on the Pride, that they had the wonderful plush warm towels you could sign out. I went over to the towel shack to see about getting one and was told they don't start handing them out until 7:15pm. I'm really not sure what the deal was with this and why it was so important to wait until then. There had been people coming up asking several times about them and instead they would sign out a pool towel instead. I wasn't interested in a "pool towel". If I wanted one of those, I would go to my room to get one. I wanted the plush soft blanket.

At approximately 7:15pm and no sooner, even with people standing there, they started signing the blankets out and I was a happy camper with 2 of them.

Poor Sakari and Peanut was freezing...but Peanut wasn't getting much of the blanket at this point.

I would text Kendra back home that I was "at the movies" lol and show her proof and she relayed to me that she was too. LOL (She and her family goes to the movies a lot).

At exactly 7:30pm, they started handing out the popcorn and I signaled the red card newbie to hustle over to get us some. Now this popcorn is pretty much plain and no salt. They say there's butter but if you are expecting Orville Redenbacher's Butter Lovers tasty popcorn, you have come to the wrong place.

The movie was just as good the second time as it was the first time and we all managed to stay awake...including Sakari.

Of course we were hungry after the movie, but obviously there was no food to get unless we wanted pizza again or something from the deli. We opted to just head back to the room.

We returned to find this towel animal to greet us.

We headed to bed, listening to the clanging of the galley workers fighting, using their chairs as armor, and flinging pots and pans at each other and several hours later, I would finally drift off to sleep.