Bahamas!

The last week of May, we boarded the Carnival Triumph with the Brown family (Dad, Mom, & Rachel) to cruise to the Bahamas. The ship was really amazing - tons of restaurants, shops, a mini golf course, swimming pools, water slide, tons of stuff to do, and food to eat constantly. It would have been perfect except for the seasickness. We heard that the cruise we were on was pretty calm, but we'll just admit that we are pansies and were incredibly seasick the whole time. (Some of us are still feeling seasick nearly a month later, back on land and will be going back to physical therapy.) In short, we like the idea of a cruise - an all-inclusive package with everything right there, but the seasickness was bad enough for us that we will never go on any boat anywhere ever again.


Having said that, there were a lot of fun moments (as the pictures below will show). We enjoyed the mini golf (especially when I nearly hit the ball off the side of the boat), we enjoyed Francis, our maitre d and his quality Indian accent, especially when he said "Slumdog Millionerrrrrrr!" We enjoyed the strange photographers (Pendragon, who told us to "put your foots" and creepy George from Serbia who said, "You make the picture look good, Angel"). The waiters (Dennis and Phar) were fun.

Our first full day on the boat was spent entirely at sea (barf). We got to spend our second full day in Port Lucaya, where we roamed through the straw market and then hit up the beach.


Our third full day was spent in Nassau, where we went on a kind of bizarre tour of the island, seeing several forts that had never seen battle, and other random landmarks, including a giant flamingo! Then we went to the museum Pirates of Nassau, which was pretty cool, until we came out and a semi-hurricane had appeared out of nowhere. We huddled together on this patio and watched a bunch of chairs and tree branches flying through the air, until we decided to follow this guy (who we thought was one of the pirates, but apparently just looked like one) through this sketchy alley which turned out to be the back entrance to the gift shop. Weird. After the mini-hurricane blew away, we waded through two feet of water on the streets of Nassau and got back on the boat.

Then it was time for another barf day. . .er, I mean fun day at sea. We spent most of that day making billions of towel animals and watching Get Smart on repeat all day long. By the time we woke up the next morning, we could step out on our balcony and see the Yorktown and the Ravenel Bridge (which honestly, we were incredibly happy to see). So yes, we did have fun, but we will never go on a cruise again.