Adventures with the Donovans

Thurday – part 3: downtown Nassau

rachel — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:24:25 +0000

Before heading back to the ship we walked around the downtown area a bit. We went into a big tent with lots of vendors, Di haggled the price of a necklace and saw a huge rat.

The tent

The main street outside the pier

View of the terminal from our room

View of paradise island as we cruised out.

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Thursday – part 2: paradise island

rachel — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:14:26 +0000

After our sail we opted to get off in paradise island and check out Atlantis. We walked along the beach, which was filled with very aggressive salesmen but beautiful water and then split a slice of pizza.

Paradise is ice cream

Paradise beach

Stingray

Turtle

Di on the ferry back, kind of sketchy.

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Thursday – part 1: snorkeling/sail

rachel — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:08:41 +0000

We arrived in Nassau on Thursday morning. We got up and got off the boat early to meet up with our sailing / snorkeling adventure at 9am. We had detailed directions but could not find the boat, we walked up and down the pier filled with people trying to sell us other things and we were certain we had missed the boat, when someone let us know that they always ran late. A few minutes later a big group from the ship joined up with us and the boat arrived.

We headed out to the reef, snorkeled for about an hour, sailed back and enjoyed some rum punch.

The boat

Diane enjoying her rum punch

Sailing back

Diane

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Tuesday night & Wed / Stirrup cay

rachel — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:55:45 +0000

Tuesday night we saw comedian Willie Farrel, not to be confused with the awesomeness of Will Farrel, it was not that great. After that we went to a dancing with the stars show that was absolutely hilarious. Lots of silly dancing and one old dude that played a lot of grab ass on the dance floor. It was kind of comfortable.

Wed morning we arrived in the Bahamas, at great stirrup cay, ncl’s private island.

We spend the day laying in the sun and walking along the beautiful water.

After our day at the beach we headed back to the ship, took a dip in the pool, grabbed dinner, and saw a great comedian Jean Pierre.

Stirrup Cay beach

Frozen beverage on the beach

Sunset

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I got a feeling..

rachel — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:42:26 +0000

Woohoo. That tonights gonna be a good night. Tonights the night let’s live it up!

Back to the boat just in time for the sunset. This phone man. Doesn’t capture anything awesome except…

This! Seriously we leave for a week. Rachel gets service day three and is on the phone with Claire. Just sayin.

Again, beautiful sunset over mediocre scenery. Pinks and purples and oranges oh my!

We are slated for more professional photos. What does thAt mean? Rachel becomes my personal stylist. She brought the tiniest straightener ever. Takes hours to tame this mass of volumized static.

Headed out for the evening. Hopefully we will actually take some pictures and have some actual adventures . Like the pub crawl.

Oh wait. Note the ripped jeans. What! Story of my life. Diane wears a dress and Rachel thinks dressing up means not wearing a Tshirt with a logo.

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Cocoa beach

rachel — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:35:53 +0000

Spent the day at cocoa beach, enjoying the sun and reading.

Grabbed lunch and beverages at a beachside spot.

Cocoa beach.

Photoshot of the lovely Diane.

Us.

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Kicking off day three!

rachel — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:23:36 +0000

Good morning day three! Woke up this morning And stepped onto the balcony to be greeted by warm sunshine!! Look land ho! Those tiny white specs in the distance are buildings. Camera phone doesnt do it justice.

Rachel and I went to breakfast and then read for a bit on our balcony. Our day is thrown off cuz of the Internet. Its back. There’s no pulling Rachel away when it has been MIA for two days .
We are docking at port canaveral in about 45 minutes. We will be in Florida all day. Rachel and I will be hitting cocoa beach and Ron jons surf shop. Interesting fact. Something about the best surfing spot on eastern seaboard. Maybe I’ll give you actual facts later.
Also! OMG! We got professional photos taken maybe I can snap a picture of that for those interested. SUPER gay!

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Sunday night / Monday

rachel — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:21:22 +0000

So pub crawl events during spring break week are well attended.

Here we are waiting as they got all 175 caskets ready.

Then we chugged beers, took whiskey shots, sang living on a prayer at the karaoke bar, had sangria, attended a toga party, decided we were too old for toga parties…

Drank martinis, watched more karaoke, and then called it a night.

Our first night at sea was rough, ironically not due to the pub crawl but to the crazy storm and a tornado(allegedly).

Monday we took it easy. Breakfast, gym, tried to watch where the wild things are (but left cuz it wasn’t that good), went to trivia….

We dressed up, got our photos taken, enjoyed a Tex-Mex dinner, watched a newlywed game show (hilarious!), drank beers, listened to some live music.

Adventures with the Donovans

Thurday – part 3: downtown Nassau

Thursday – part 2: paradise island

Thursday – part 1: snorkeling/sail

Tuesday night & Wed / Stirrup cay

I got a feeling..

Cocoa beach

Kicking off day three!

Sunday night / Monday

8 March, 2011 15:41

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