Day 2 starting off with the entire ship meeting the captain for the first time. Well, not really "meeting", but hearing for the first time. At 8 o'clock in the morning the speaker in our room blared to life with an overly loud announcement from the Captain. It went something like this:
Note: Pretend this is all in a really thick and barely intelligible Norwegian accent.
"Hello, dis iz your Captin zpeeking. Good morning. I am coming into your rooms to tell you that we have some inclement weather ahead of us. There is some weather that is not good, and it is not as good as expected. For this reason I have had to cancel the island. We will not be going to the island today because there is some bad weather. We will continue on to Nassau early because I have canceled the island. The bad weather is too choppy for the boats so I must cancel the island….”
Continues, repeating the same thing for about 5 minutes….
“So in review, I have canceled the island….”
5 more minutes….
“Just to review, I have….”
Oh, dear Lord….
“Okay, I’m sorry to have woken you. I just had to cancel the island because of the bad weather that is not good and ….”
Ahhhhhhhhh!!!
And finally, silence.
After our 20 minute update on the weather we found out that we weren’t going to Cococay that day. Instead, we would continue on to Nassau and try to catch Cococay on the way back. Apparently the weather was too choppy for the smaller boats to ferry us to and from the island. However, in Nassau we would be docked and the weather wouldn’t matter. No big deal.
After a tasty breakfast and a tasty lunch just an hour later we arrived in Nassau. We decided to explore the island a bit that day. We got off the boat and took a taxi jam-packed with people to Paradise Island. Paradise Island is the nicest part of Nassau. A single guy (with apparently too much money) owns the entire island. The highlight is Atlantis, and absolutely gigantic hotel & casino. They have a casino, lots of pools and beaches, walk-through aquariums, etc. It was neat to see.
After winding our way through Atlantis we decided to go down to the beach. We couldn’t go through the gigantic pool area of Atlantis because we weren’t guests, so we had to walk half a mile around the complex to the public access area. We then had to find a place to change into our bathing suits. Our first attempt at that was unsuccessful because we tried to enter another closed off area. We quickly got the boot. Oops! Then we found a public restroom and all was well.
The beach was neat. There were some big waves, the water was clear and warm, the sand was nice, etc. We played around for a while and thoroughly wore ourselves out. Then it was back to ship via another cramped taxi ride. Ugh.
That evening was highlighted by another nice dinner, a comedian, and a sister-brother act. The sister-brother act was somewhat amusing because the brother juggled while the sister just stood there looking stupid. We weren’t quite sure why she was even there. Weird.
All in all it wasn’t a bad day. We got some sun, hit the beach, and ate a ton of food. I’d deem that a success.
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