Tanner Life

At Sea~

Day #2 Was spent out on the deep blue sea. There was a storm coming into Florida and the surrounding areas, so we wanted to get as far away as possible. The captain said that he was going to switch our days around and keep us in sunshine! We were all for that! (Have I mentioned this all already? I forget-) After breakfast, we looked for a place to bake ourselves in the sun. It was swamped around the pool decks. My Dad decided to go off exploring on his own, not to be seen againf or half a day! Andy, Mom & I found some nice comfy chairs, in the shade with huge cushions in them. So.... we relaxed for a few hours.

Mom went to take a nap and look for Dad, so Andy & I found some chairs on the very very very tip top sun deck. It was soooooooo windy up there, I can't even describe it. But.... we baked ourselves and read. We detected a fabulous smell coming from around the pool and went to check it out. We found a big ole BBQ buffet, right beside the pool. So after stuffing ourselves and finding the lunch dessert buffet..... we were back in our chairs for a nap. Of course we took a dip in the pools a few times. They were huge pools and they had this entire shallow area (a little over ankle deep) all the way around that you could sit in and lay there. Very nice!!! Late that afternoon Andy & I went to the theater to watch "8 Below", good movie. Before we knew it, time for dinner was close by!

We got ready and went up to the top decks to watch as we pulled into Nassau. We would be there for the next 32 hours!! When you can see the "Atlantis" resort & Casino, you know you're in Nassau. It's actually on Paradise Island, a short boat ride or taxi drive (across the bridge) away. Time for dinner!! Hey, it's pirate night @ dinner, aye- no one told us that!!

After dinner we decided to skip the show & explore down-town. Now, we have been to Nassau 3 times before...we knew that the town SHUTS DOWN in the evening, unless you're there to PARTY and we weren't. Mom & Dad still wanted to look around, so off we went. After being followed by local scammers asking us if we wanted our hair braided, them to sing a song for $1 or trying to sell us shells & wooden flutes.... we decided we'd had enough and went back to the ship! After all, it was late night adult only comedy night and......the chocolate buffet. Here's the sad part....by the time the comedy show was over about 12:45 and we made it to the buffet....there was nothing left. In 45 minutes the other 2000 friends aboard had almost wiped it out!! We got one thing each and I cried! (Ok, not really..... but I thought about it!!) Time for lights out- Here's our towel friends for the night. Joe, our cabin steward, said we were special because of our anniversary....he didn't just make these swans for anyone! True enough, we'd never gotten them before~