Nassau is incredibly beautiful! Clear, turquoise colored water with soft white sand. Right when Kate and I got to the hotel, we saw our two roommates from Minnesota- Ashley and Meghan- waiting for us. It was perfect. We went up to the room to shower before heading down to the beach. The weather is very humid here, so I'm showering a lot more than usual! We got coconut drinks on the beach from a local, but he kind of ripped us off with the price haha. Ashley also found a dead floating starfish in the water. (Yes we are sure it was really dead. We even checked with a local.) After a few necessary photos, Ashley decided she wanted to keep it. We were told we would have to cut it open and extract all of the insides for it to not smell horrible but we thought we would let it dry out on our balcony for a while. Unfortunately, the decomposition became too much so he had to go.
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| Meghan, Ashley, Kate and I |
We have met a lot of people going on the voyage with us these past three days, especially from our hotel. Everyone has seemed really nice, but the majority do seem to be preoccupied with alcohol.. We got really lucky with the group of girls we met on the first day. We love our hotel roomies Ashley and Meghan, the girls are hilarious. We also met Mary and Cedar from Colorado and Rosie from socal. It was pretty exciting that we all get along so well. We went to dinner at Senor Frogs last night (and there again tonight for an SAS meetup), downtown to the straw market this morning, and of course the beach everyday. The currency is really neat looking here and is a dollar per dollar to ours, so you get mixed change when you pay with cash. The only downside to this mini 3 day vacation is how expensive everything is. We haven't wanted to spend too much on food, so we've only eaten 3 real meals here. Other than that, poptarts, goldfish, and dry cereal have been staples in our diets. We board the ship tomorrow morning and cannot wait! It goes by last name so my time to board is 11:30. We also found out that Kate and I will officially be roommates and our room is one door down from Ashley and Meghan's on deck 3!! Greatest news ever. I will be able to email everyone from my free SAS email on the ship so expect to hear from me soon! Oh and I tried fresh conch salad, scorched conch, and conch fritters. Pretty good! And I was the only person to get mosquito bites and I have around 8 huge ones on my legs and arms.
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| Ashley, Meghan, Cedar, Mary, Kate and I |
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| New hats at the Straw Market |
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| Ashley and starfish |
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| Rosie, Kate and I at Conch Fritters restaurant |
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