Saturday we arrived at the airport at 5:30 am and got all checked in and through security. Our flight was at 7:00 am, and we arrived in Atlanta for a two hour lay-over and then off the the Bahamas by 4:00 pm local time. Both flights were actually great, and we both slept a bit.
Us on the plane from the Laptop.
Once we arrived, we had a bus come pick us all up (16 adults + 2 babies) and we stopped at a local grocery store for food. We were lucky enough to get rooms with kitchens in them so we could make our own breakfasts and drink our own drinks (considering that down at the pool and the rest of the resort they are over $7 a piece.) Good for us we found Top Ramen and Popcorn for Zach so it could be a REAL vacation.
By the time we got to the hotel, we had to race and get ready for the Jerry Seinfeld live show. We ate at Murrays Deli by the port and then rushed to the show. It was celebrity week so we were sure to be on the look out for anyone we could find. Day 1 we saw: Chris Tucker, Jerome Bettis, A-Rod, Cedric the Entertainer, and Ben Roethlisberger (whom we got a picture with.) We saw him walk in the theatre where the show was about to start. Siri wanted a picture SO bad, so I told her that if she asked him, I would go with her. I didn't think she would ACTUALLY go through with it. That girl has guts. She walked right up to him, told him that her husband was a huge Steelers fan, and he let us take a pic. Once again, he smelt so AMAZING. He must have an incredible smelling expensive cologne. The show was hilarious. We laughed the WHOLE night.
Sunday: We spent the WHOLE day at the waterpark. We spent 75% of the time on the Lazy River and the water slides.
The lazy river was CRAZY. It went around the whole resort essentially. The funniest part of it is that it really IS so lazy. It takes you around everywhere and if you want to go on the tube slides, you drift over to a conveyor belt that pulls you up to the top. We kept joking about how we wanted to bring our lunches and tropical drinks and have a picnic.
The coolest slide was one where you go right through a shark tank. It was SICK!
After all the sliding and lazy river riding, we all went to dinner at a place called Sea Grapes. It was a great buffet.
Monday we went on the Dolphin adventure. It was a blast. There was a pool called the Dolphin Cay at our resort, where you could go have a "Dolphin Encounter".
First they give us all wet suits and tell us to watch some video about dolphins. I sort of thought it would be a "what not to do" video, you know for SAFETY. The majority of it was facts about dolphins like how much they weighed and all that business. After the quick video they send you out to the pool in groups. Lori, Trav, Zach, Sean, and I were all in a group. First they teach you how to "ride" or get pushed by the dolphins. You sit on a body board and you lock your legs out straight behind you. The trainer counts to three and there comes the dolphin from behind you and pushes you through the water on your foot. FAST too, not like a dinky push, like a full speed push. It was awesome.
Next, they gave us these ski-do things where it is like an underwater propellor. You pull the trigger and it pulls you down deep to swim with the dolphins. It was our favorite part. The last leg of the adventure you get to touch them. I remember feeling the killer whale at Sea World when I was 12, and this dolphin felt just like it. Smooth like a wet rubber tire. They let you hug them and even kiss them right on the mouth. Zach refused to kiss the dolphin. We were laughing so hard, and I kept telling him just to do it. He would not have it. All the pictures we got of him were laughing and pursing his lips together in front of the poor thing. What was the funniest is that if you kissed it for too long, it would open it's mouth and stick it's tongue out at you. It smelt like pure fish guts, but it was cute. Zach and I both agree that our favorite part of this trip was the dolphin encounter, just because we had never done anything like that ever.
After that we spent the whole afternoon at the pool/beach. More riding the "current" or lazy river, the Mayan Temple and so on. The weather was perfect...about 75-80 degrees. Later that night we went to a place called Mosaic, which was GORGEOUS. It was another buffet, but was actually really good.
