On Sunday the cruise ship headed to the Berry Islands and we spent the day at Great Stirrup Cay on a private beach. Scott made a donation to the Bahamas leaving his snorkel gear somewhere in the water, necessitating an 
expensive replacement when we got back to Cayman since he had specially made gear with stronger lenses for his vision. Later Sunday night we went to the Italian restaurant for dinner on the boat and the picture taken before the dinner had an uninvited guest who looks a lot closer than he really was and who fortunately didn't give us a present. We definitely feel now that doing an Alaskan cruise is a possibility as Katie did well with a patch to control her motion sickness. We are back in the Cayman Islands for the balance of the summer and with hurricane season really starting in force next month will be getting the house and our kits fully ready. We plan to get a car later this summer and are hoping the little Charade can hold out until the fall so we don't go too much into debt getting the car. For ex-pats buying cars is a cash deal so we have to pay the full price up front as well as buying one years insurance and paying the government fee's so it is something you save up for a couple of months and then do. Our thought is that if the Charade can survive to September we will buy the car then. An advantage to that is that we get through the peak of hurricane season and don't have to worry about buying a car and then having it flooded right after we buy it if a bad storm hits the Island.
