{"id":132,"date":"2007-04-01T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T17:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/eastern-caribbean-cruise\/saturday-3312007-bahamas\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T14:31:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T20:31:28","slug":"saturday-3312007-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/eastern-caribbean-cruise\/saturday-3312007-bahamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassau, Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday morning, we got up early specifically to play shuffleboard. The sports office was only open for a few hours a day. Several of the staff members were playing a miniature version of soccer in the basketball court, and it was awesome to watch.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

We didn’t actually know how to play shuffleboard, but that didn’t stop us. It was one of our goals. In the picture above, Wendy is sliding around on two of the disks. I think we all won!<\/p>\n

We could see the Bahamas by 10:30am. It was extra exciting to be arriving there, because Stephanie and I had been there before. We had very important destinations in mind. We stood and watched the ship pull into the massive port in Nassau, then ran to get our stuff.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

In our cabin, we found toga materials, too:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

We took a water taxi over to Paradise Island first thing, because we knew exactly where we needed to have lunch: Bimini Road<\/a>. We’d eaten there before, and it instantly became one of my favorite restaurants.<\/p>\n

Our water taxi had an additional passenger. He was Felix Morley, freelance tour guide. As we rode across the bay, he pointed out things like Nicholas Cage’s house and the Lloyd’s compound. He had stories about everything, and it was pretty fascinating. We tipped him as we got off the boat.<\/p>\n

We walked past the giant yachts at the marina, and took up spots at the outside bar at Bimini Road. I had one of their awesome orange mojitos. A creepy dude down the bar started going on and on about how great their mojitos were, because he’d had them all. I believed him. Also, Wendy finally got to have a Kalik, the beer of the Bahamas! (There’s plenty more about Kalik and its biggest fan, Gilbert, in my first Bahamas travel journal<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

On the way out, we had our server put our drinks into to-go cups. I LOVE THE BAHAMAS. We walked over to Atlantis, to wander around the casino and see the lagoons behind it. We bought some souvenirs and wandered through the shops. In the bathroom, Wendy declared her excitement at the fact that she was walking around carrying her drink with her anywhere she wanted.<\/p>\n

We took the water taxi back over to Nassau, and Felix Morley, freelance tour guide, was on the boat with us again. We heard the same exact spiel, only backwards, and it was nowhere near as entertaining the second time. Also, the memory card on my camera died, and I thought I lost a ton of pictures. Luckily, I was able to recover them when I got home. Thanks, internet!<\/p>\n

We went through the straw market, which was disappointingly lacking in heckling (that’s actually a plus), and walked down to see the parliament building and and our very favorite sign, the one about ya tings. Wendy bought a $1 flute from some kids selling them in the street; it ended up being the best souvenir ever.<\/p>\n


\nstraw market <\/em><\/p>\n


\nbahamian parliament building <\/em>\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Then we had to pay a visit to the little grocery store we’d been to the first time in Nassau, so I could stock up on Go Ahead<\/a>. I can’t get them in the US, and they’re the best thing ever. I asked the cashier to please not laugh at me as I purchased 8 packages of them.<\/p>\n

And then? It was time for our most important mission of all: Se\u00f1or Frogs.<\/p>\n

We got our yards, and sat there watching drunk girls dancing. It was pretty spectacular. As at the other place, they had games on the dance floor for free shots, even though the people dancing didn’t really need them. I have an awesome picture of a girl squatting down so far you can see her buttcrack; it’s my most-viewed photo on Flickr. Ha!<\/p>\n

And just as before, we got to hear Sexyback<\/em>. Oh, Se\u00f1or Frogs, I cannot wait to see you again in Cozumel. And Grand Cayman.<\/p>\n


\nwendy and her flute <\/em><\/p>\n

After a yard plus something between 1\/2 and 1 additional yard (none of us remember), we headed back toward the ship, very close to the cutoff time. Outside the bar, we ran into Brad and Jamie again. They were on another mission, and headed into Se\u00f1or Frogs. We were a little concerned, since we only had a few minutes to get back to the ship.\n<\/p>\n


\n finishing the yard<\/em><\/p>\n

We got back on the ship and opened the door to our cabin so we could watch the final people boarding. Stephanie was convinced that Brad and Jamie weren’t going to make it back, and the ship would leave without them. Wendy decided to use her flute to lure them back. She hung out the window whistling loudly, to the vast annoyance of the people making out on the balcony below us.<\/p>\n

Once we settled down, it was time to pack. Sigh. Suitcases had to be left outside our cabin doors that night, and we could pick them up the following morning at customs.<\/p>\n

We went to go play canasta, and confused the hell out of Casanova when we ordered water and Coke to drink, instead of cocktails. We had dinner out on the back patio, and could see several other cruise ships on the horizon. There was a full moon, so the ocean was very bright that night.\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

We returned to our cabin to put on our togas and head to the Osiris Theatre for the passenger talent show. They did it in a Roman-forum sort of way, with the staff as Caesar and his court, voting thumbs up-or-down on performances. Most of them were pretty boring or terrible, and we could tell there were some passengers who did this kind of thing a lot<\/em>. The best part, though, was when a woman came up and sang the love theme from Titanic<\/em>. Um, WHAT? The staff acted out scenes from the movie behind her, including a lot of drowning. It was hysterical.<\/p>\n

We went back to our cabins to finish packing, and hauled our suitcases outside. We had to keep our toiletries and a change of clothes with us, obviously, but otherwise we were ready to leave the ship. SAD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday morning, we got up early specifically to play shuffleboard. The sports office was only open for a few hours a day. Several of the staff members were playing a miniature version of soccer in the basketball court, and it was awesome to watch. We didn’t actually know how to play shuffleboard, but that didn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22],"tags":[505,32,30,62,84,63,89,165],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"geo":{"latitude":25.059999499999999983401721692644059658050537109375,"longitude":-77.3450011999999986755938152782618999481201171875,"description":"Nassau, The Bahamas"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/storage\/2007\/04\/454213552_5259dfaf3c_o.jpg?fit=2603%2C1952","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Z5R-28","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":82,"url":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/bahamas\/thursday-01262006-getting-there\/","url_meta":{"origin":132,"position":0},"title":"Minneapolis -> Nassau","author":"Jenni","date":"02.1.2006","format":false,"excerpt":"[If you want to view the entire Flickr photoset for this trip, here's the link!] Since we only had a 4-day weekend in the Bahamas, I booked us the earliest flight possible: 5:15am. That meant getting up at 3:00, but it would get us into Nassau by noon. The flight\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Bahamas"","block_context":{"text":"Bahamas","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/category\/bahamas\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/storage\/2006\/02\/315257367_e942e41779_o.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":84,"url":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/bahamas\/saturday-01282006-paradise-island\/","url_meta":{"origin":132,"position":1},"title":"Walking to Paradise Island","author":"Jenni","date":"02.1.2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Saturday morning, we got up and walked downtown. We got coffee, and since breakfast food is hard to find, we stopped into the supermarket. I got a banana and some apple-and-sultana-filled crackers called 'Go Ahead' that I ended up buying a ton more of and bringing home. YUM. straw market\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Bahamas"","block_context":{"text":"Bahamas","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/category\/bahamas\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/storage\/2006\/02\/315317251_361625dc47_o.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":83,"url":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/bahamas\/friday-01272006-nassau\/","url_meta":{"origin":132,"position":2},"title":"Snorkelling in the Bahamas","author":"Jenni","date":"02.1.2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Friday morning, I awoke at 5:30 because the sun was already up. We put on bathing suits and sunscreen under our clothes and went to breakfast in the hotel. From the dining room there, we could watch the cruise ships pulling into the harbor. A shuttle came to pick us\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Bahamas"","block_context":{"text":"Bahamas","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/category\/bahamas\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/storage\/2006\/02\/315265807_da9a8e24b0_o.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3435,"url":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/puerto-rico-southern-caribbean-cruise-2\/seasickness-is-no-joke\/","url_meta":{"origin":132,"position":3},"title":"Seasickness is No Joke.","author":"Jenni","date":"03.8.2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I slept really late on Sunday, and felt terrible. I got up and threw up some more, dressed, and we headed up to the buffet to eat. I wasn't sure I'd be able to handle eating anything, but I had some coffee and a slice of cheese pizza. (It was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Puerto Rico \/ Southern Caribbean Cruise #2"","block_context":{"text":"Puerto Rico \/ Southern Caribbean Cruise #2","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/category\/puerto-rico-southern-caribbean-cruise-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":85,"url":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/bahamas\/sunday-01292006-getting-home\/","url_meta":{"origin":132,"position":4},"title":"Leaving the Bahamas","author":"Jenni","date":"02.1.2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Sunday morning, we walked downtown for breakfast. This was a challenge, as nothing was really open yet. I had a cappuccino, but I really really wanted more Go Ahead and the grocery store was closed. It was to be expected that things would open late on Sunday in the Bahamas.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Bahamas"","block_context":{"text":"Bahamas","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/category\/bahamas\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131,"url":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/eastern-caribbean-cruise\/friday-3302007-at-sea\/","url_meta":{"origin":132,"position":5},"title":"Eastern Caribbean Day at Sea","author":"Jenni","date":"04.1.2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Friday, thankfully, was a day at sea on the way to the Bahamas. We got up at 10am, and miraculously, none of us were hung over. Stephanie and I went to the embarkation talk with Deborah, to learn about how to get off the ship back in Florida (it's more\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Eastern Caribbean Cruise"","block_context":{"text":"Eastern Caribbean Cruise","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/category\/eastern-caribbean-cruise\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/storage\/2007\/04\/452718847_955d4b37ca_b.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}