A BEAUTIFUL BLUE MONDAY WITH SALLY.....

please be warned that this is a

long..very LONG post today....

i have lots of

BLUE pictures to show.....so you gotta look at them ALL !!

deal ?

MY KIDS...DAVID KEITH and STACY LEIGH

on a boat heading out to BLUE SEA.....

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i want to share a few more photos of the FABULOUS BLUE waters of

MY DREAM CRUSIN' VACATION COME TRUE

on this lovely BLUE MONDAY, hosted, once again, by our own and loved, SALLY at SMILING SALLY.

Please go right over and take a gander at all the beautiful BLUES making their way around

BLOGLAND....

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here we are landing at

GRAND CAYMAN..

Lovely Daughter in Law, Kathy, and Handsome Son , David, lead the way..

THE WAY TO A MAGNIFICENT DAY..

and just take a look at that beautiful blue water and sky...OH, MY !!
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the following...pictures of photos....

now, here's YOURS TRULY snorkeling...i was laughing so hard i nearly drowned myself...

i'm tellin' ya....this was SO MUCH FUN and i laughed at the grown-ups as much as the kids...

we did have SUCH a GOOD time... the water was so clear..when I got back on the boat, I had lost an earring. BRYAN, g-son, went down, located it right away and brought it back up....

I was totally IMpressed !!

THEN.......

the boat man said, "Time to swim with the rays" .....

UHHHH, rays........ What rays?...... SUN RAYS?

Little Deeds, here with her daddy, was WISHIN' it was SUN RAYS....

STING RAYS....say it with me, please...S.T.I.N.G. R.A.Y.S.

Deeds is about to climb up on top of her daddy's head....

i mean, it's just plain UNATURAL to be that close to a SEA ANIMAL.....and Deeds thought so, too!!

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ALL these pictures were taken with an UNDERWATER camera and so I don't have them on my computer and I don't have a scanner (what's up with THAT??)

...these are PICTURES OF PICTURES

but you can see them pretty good....

isn't this just about the most amazing photo, ever...

and SCARY ??

Beautiful Daughter, Stacy, took most of these photos and she is good!!
Our skipper said these String Rays are fed EVERY DAY by the crew on the tourist boats at about the same time and they have become extremely TAME..

and, they aren't the same type that killed the Crocodile Man, Steve Irwin....

well...MAN !!.......THAT was good to know !!

and, oh...what about that sting ray that just FLEW up out of the water, onto a boat, hitting and killing a woman and hurting her sister......ooooo, my goodness...and they wanted us to

SWIM with the rays ?!!

by this time, i am getting pretty UP TIGHT..you could've opened a Pepsi with my butt!!

this one reminds me of

JAWS !!!!!!! eeekkkk

"SWIM FASTER, BROOKS OR DREW OR BRYAN OR WHOEVER THIS IS...." !!

this ray is going up the back of Handsome Son*In*Law, JENT .....

Now...he's grinnin' but I think he shivered, too !

GOOD GRIEF, people....

Hey, I'm with you, BAILEY and DEEDS...the boat seems the best place to ME, too !!

I'd rather pet 'em than swim with 'em !

THIS is the most incredible thing I've ever seen in my entire life !!
And, the ray spit water all over the place.... including on MOI....
if they weren't so dang scary, this one would be almost cute....

ALMOST !!

I tried...I really, really did try to get in the water and swim with the rays...
but, like I said up above, that BOAT looked a heck of a lot safer than the water...
I am SUCH a titty baby !!
BUT...I kept thinking, "Most of the rays are tame but WHAT IF a new one got in the bunch that very same day and HE was the one swimming with ME??"
SEE ?....TITTY BABY !!
Oh, but it was quite an experience just to touch one of these amazing creatures...
They are as soft as can be and I was shocked...I didn't think about them being so soft and velvety...


Beautiful Daughter just about shivered herself to death when this one started up her back....
Jent wasn't gonna let it go over the top of her head, tho.....
oooo, how fun !!!
but pretty scary and that's a fact...

After the snorkeling and playing with the Sting Rays,
the boat man (what DO ya call that guy?) took us to
RUM POINT for lunch...

I said, forget the food... after all those sting rays swimming around....
I WAS LOOKIN' FOR THE RUM !!!! ;O)

OHHH....LACEY JEAN .... you gotta STING RAY on your back.....how did that feel, girl ???

Notice how they all have their mouths wide open when that sting ray is on their back? O)

This one looks like a big rock on the bottom of the sea...

but....it's NO ROCK....

A great time was had that day in that pretty BLUE water...not too sure anyone wants to do it again....at least not any time SOON.... ;o)

BUT WE ALL WANT TO GO ON ANOTHER CRUISE,...................ASAP !!

LOVE, bj