Visitors from Canada

To help ease the stress of decision making, we were fortunate to have Blake's brother Joel and friend Darcy come down from the crazy cold Canadian spring to join us! We haven't had many visitors since we came down, and they have all been mine, so it was a nice change to have Blake's side of the family come! We knew we were in for trouble when only minutes off the plane, Joel and Darcy were gulping down rum punches and beers by the pool. It sure doesn't take long to unwind in this kind of a climate. For two boys, Darcy and Joel were sure easy visitors. Joel's gym obsession had him buying a weekly membership the very next day, and Darcy found Blake's Theo Fleury book and had his nose stuck in that for the rest of the week! The best part about having visitors is getting to participate in all of the touristy things that we so often forget about. I still get giddy every time I get in the water with the stingrays, and Pasta Thursday on the ocean front patio at Grand Old House is to die for. We did a trip around the island with our friends, and wound up meeting a crazy Caymanian with one hand, named Allen who gives free tours of the free blowholes, doling out free information while taking up thirty minutes of your free time at a site that usually takes about 3 minutes! Allen also informed Joel that he must be of Asian decent, although we could never really figure out why.
The main priority for these Canadian boys were the hockey playoffs, and alcohol of any shape, form or strength. It was not unusual for Blake and I to turn in early, only to hear the boys sneak in after midnight, rowdy off of some unknown concoction of coconut, rum, punch and pineapples. During the day, the pool was generally where we found them ( I think they really only ever made it to the beach twice)! It only took Darcy three days to burn his shins to a lobster-esque red, but Joel fared slightly better due to the fact that he arrived freshly fake-and-baked.
The highlight for the boys was the Sunday brunch. We warned Joel to approach with caution. He was just off a crazy cutting program and had less body fat than any human being on the planet should ever have. However, they dove head first into the yorkshire puddings, sushi, crab, potatoes, omelettes, bacon, pancakes, potstickers, fish, cadbury cream eggs and chocolate cake. In a surprising show of sobriety, both of them actually passed on the bottomless champagne so that they could gorge themselves even further! That takes self-discipline!
Needless to say, we sent them back a little heavier on the scale, a lot lighter in the wallet and sporting a lovely shade of sunburn. I am hoping they had an equally great time visiting!