When I arrived, I was lucky enough to spend a good 4 days with Emily and the kids. It was great to see them and spend a lot of quality time with them since I haven't seen them in over a year. Especially little Kailyn, which las time I saw her, she wasn't even crawling yet and now she's walking and talking, it's crazy! I got to see Chandler at his finest during his boxing lessons, Annelie colored me lots of pictures, she's learning how to draw animals so I told her to draw me an ocean with all the sea animals in it, now it's on my fridge! Kailyn is the sweetest most patient kid ever. Her feelings get hurt and she cries when Annelie and Chandler fight, she cries when Emily has to yell at them, kind of like she feels bad for both parties and is upset people are getting in trouble, you only tell her no once and she just does what you say and walks away, she's the peace keeper in the family, doesn't like conflict and wants everyone to get along, she would also rather go around the house hunting for trash to pick up rather than play with toys, haha :) she's a great little Mcghee, you gotta love that kid.
When filming started is when the crazy breaks out, so much is going on all the time, but we made it through the week and it went smoother than the Nassau shoot. During the filming week i'm "errand girl", I get a car and a cell phone and then i'm put to work. I get props, drive people around, pick up lunch, get coffees, run back and forth to the shop from locations and for a crew of about 8 boys, it's a lot to do. I have to admit I enjoy it though. After getting lost a few times going places I had the roads down and running errands was a lot easier. For some of the shoot we enjoyed Pirates Week, which is a week long party of events everyday and starts off on a Friday street party right downtown with everyone dressed up as pirates, including Darin and I. That was fun!! The fireworks were the most insane ever, better than any i've ever seen and the grand finale was breathtaking, literally, the pounding in your chest you didn't have a second to breathe during it. So amazing!! We also tried out the flowrider, which is a machine that makes a wave you can surf on or boggie board on, use a floating animal on or just slide over the wave (which is what the kids do). I did bust my cheeks on the wave trying to use the boggie board, hurt myself pretty good, I won't post pictures or you might vomit :) Chad is a natural at it and Darin's gotten good but he's only been a few times. After the flowrider (and the skinless top of my left foot) we ventured to a cliff.....i've learned that wherever Chad lives he will find a cliff to jump off of or a large hole to jump into. I jumped off the cliff in Turks and Caicos so it was only right to jump off the one in Cayman. Standing on the edge looking down, getting yourself to jump never gets easier. I did think for a second maybe I shouldn't jump because I had just hurt myself, but when was I going to be back here in Cayman standing on a cliff like this?? Not for a while, so then I thought about the family motto, YOLO, means You Only Live Once, and I jumped!! I had great form (I thought) until the top of my left foot SMACKED the water!! HOLY MOTHER that hurt!!! It stung SO so bad, I wouldn't take it back though. The next day we went free diving and the day after that we went scuba diving. I had my foot all bandaided up but if you know where the fin rubs on the top of your foot, you'd know I wasn't in the best shape, and of couse I did it anyway because why? YOLO....when would I ever be back in Cayman where some of the BEST diving in the world is? I dunno. So with bandaids and stinging pain in my foot, I toughed it out knowing I had to do ALL of this! After being certified in June for scuba diving, i've only been twice, so this would be my third dive. It was a deep one, about 115+ ft down. Chad is great to dive with and for some reason I feel super comfortable knowing he's down there too. Deanna is a great lady who works for the shop in Cayman and she dives a lot with Chad, so I knew I was in good hands. Chad said Deanna would stay with me about half way down, about 60ft or so and if I was comfortable there I could continue to the bottom with everyone else. The place we dove was called Big Tunnels....about 4 people can swim through at a time, the top of the tunnel starts at about 90ft and the bottom is about 110ft. When we got down, I didn't even realize that we were in the tunnel before Deanna pointed out to me at the end of it we were down 112ft!!! So crazy....I can't believe I did that! To be honest you loose track of your depth because everything is just so beautiful in that clear water and the coral reefs and so huge!!! We dove and snorkeled a ship wreck after that which was pretty amazing too. At the end of the trip I decided next time will be a vacation trip so we have time do LOTS of diving and do some tourist stuff to. I did get to walk around with Emily one last time the day we left and saw the huge Margaritaville with the water slide in it which looked like a lot of fun! Met Guy Harvey in his store, he was just upstairs painting another fabulous painting. I wanted to buy everything in there, but only left with a new tervis tumber, a Guy Harvey Cayman Islands one, pretty sweet to add to my collection.
Ok, that about sums it up. If I think of more i'll just make a new post, Cayman Islands continued.......until then, enjoy some photos!!
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