Day 11 - Friday, December 13th, 2013 - Havana - Grand Cayman

Slept in a little bit, arranged for a ride to the airport, but walked around a little to get some breakfast first. We walked to a few places that looked open but were closed and got a few suggestions along the way. We saw a cafeteria in a hospital and tried there. We peeked inside and it looked like it had been vacant for years. At this point, we're just getting hungry, so we found the closest place we could. It was a little stand made of wood, one half sold sandwiches and the other half sold juice. The locals were lining up in droves for the juice, but we were hungry so we ordered 2 sandwiches and 2 juices. From the sign, we were expecting to pay $14. It ended up that these prices were in CUP and not in CUC, so it was actually like $1.35! We felt like we had to try the juice that everyone was loving, because people were literally double fisting and slamming this stuff down. We tried it, at 5 cents a piece, it was ok, t was sort of a guava with a nutmeggy spice quality to it.

We walked back to the casa with a little help from a taxi, as we had waked quite a ways by now. Packed up, got Leidy's neighbor to run us to the bank and to a quick flea market to look for a couple of souvenirs.

We made it to the airport and had to wait outside because they only let in certain flights at a time. We had a beer, the line opened up, we did our airport thing, and we were on our way back to the Caymans.

We got back late because our flight was delayed so we missed our car rental places' closing time, but we went to another company that was still open and Rachel drove us back to the hotel. This time it was a right hand drive car, so I was kinda glad I wasn't driving.

 We stopped at Myrtle's for dinner and split a turtle soup. It was a lot like a chicken and vegetable soup, but the pieces of meat looked like turtle fin. We had jerk chicken and a turtle burger as well. The burger tasted like a turkey burger. It was good. We were both tired & a little cranky, so we just went back to the hotel and got our new room and went to bed. 

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