So Troy and I had the priviledge of getting to go on our yearly "work conference" trip. It has been a while since we went to Vegas last year, so we were ready for a great trip to Paradise Island, Bahamas!! We were going to stay 5 grand days!! We flew out of St Louis, to Miami...then a short flight on a tiny plane to Nassau. We got there and took a shuttle to our hotel. This is us on the shuttle, ready for fun! We were sporting our new shades from the mall at $5 each! Nice!
So after changing rooms once, we finally got into a nice room with a king size bed and an ocean view. The first room was a "villa" that was kind of out of the way, outside of the hotel, with 2 double beds. We didnt love that. This was one of many little water aquariums that had different sea life. These are nurse sharks...ya they are just right there, with a sign that says, keep your feet away from the sharks!!
We stayed at the Atlantis Resort. Here we are on our way to swim the first day. Of course we woke up to rain..but soon it ended, so we got to hit the water park. The resort was huge and beautiful.
After we swam a bit and went on some water slides, we headed over to the beach. It was so pretty! There was some tropical weather residual from a passing hurricane...so the waves were pretty big, but the water was so warm and nice! It was perfect temperature. I love this man!
So we got the priviledge finally of eating at Mesa Grill!! This is one on Bobby Flay's restaraunts. We were excited to get to eat some yummy food! It was really good. We ate some chicken quesedilla with goat cheese and avacado or something. It was different, but good. Oh ya, and the cornbread muffins were different but yummy! real corn and peppers and stuff! Even Troy liked that! Then Troy had a steak and twice baked potato with horseradish and creme fresh. I got some seventeen spice chicken or something like that with cilantro garlic mashed potatoes. It was good, but different than the mexican we are used to! It was a great experience. We sat and watched the rain pour down and the trees blowing like crazy out the window! The weather was horrible!! Yes we are wearing pants and I'm sporting a hoodie!! BRRRRR..
So we had to spend a lot of time inside, keeping dry and having something to do. We walked around the resort alot, seeing all the buildings and sea life and such.They had this fun chair for pictures...the King Triton throne...fun!
I made Troy get in it, even though he really didnt want to.
So one day it was finally sunny in the morning, so we headed in a taxi downtown to Nassau to see the shops and stuff. There is where the cruise ships dock, and so there is alot of tourists all over. We ate at Sbarros for lunch! yeah, it only cost us $10.47 for lunch. Back at the resort, its $3 for a bottle of water, we were shocked at how expensive food was there! We found a bag of Doritos in the hotel shop for $17!! Anyway, so we went to the shops, and then headed back to the island and took the water taxi. It was pretty risky with Troy's seasick tendency, but he said he would be fine. Of course we were the first ones on, and they wait 30 minutes from the time the first person gets on...here we are waiting for some more people or 30 min to come quickly!
This was the view of our resort from the water taxi. Its so neat.
There were tons of aquariums all over the resort. This is an underground one that had lots of sharks, called Pretator's lagoon. Its pretty scary, but cool too!
So here was the view from the library in the hotel...waiting for the rain to go away!
This is what we did...sit around, read some boring dumb magazine, troy playing with the camera picking my nose..etc.
We woke up the last day to sunshine! yeah!! The bad thing, the wind had picked up. this was our beautiful view from our balcony..but the wind was CRAZY!!
Yes, this was the flag that tells of the beach conditions...this means, the beach is CLOSED. The wind blew it straight out!! So..no beach at all the last day. They wouldnt even let you walk on the sand!!
So, we decided to do what we do best, go shopping again! We took a taxi back over to Nassau. This green van was our taxi! They just take their cars they have, and put some taxi stickers on them and drive people around.
Troy in front of the straw market. We went back for some more goods. We always buy way too many souveniers! I did however find some really nice coach purses...of course the zipper on one broke before the day was out!
Later, we had fun in the elevator taking pictures of each other..ya we were bored!
The ocean was so pretty, but we could only love it from afar. The color of the water is to die for!
Another shot of the hotel. Nice!
So this is the tiny plane we had to take from miami to nassau and back. yes it has propellers!! yikes! It was so scary! The plane was rattling and vibrating like crazy, and it was sooooo loud! Wow it was nice to land in Miami!
This was the view of the island as we were leaving. The blue water so nice. We were tired and ready to go home back to our kiddos. We missed them alot. We had a stinkin 4 hour layover in Miami...and then home to St Louis was wonderful. We stepped outside and it was warm and the sun was shining! Wow was it nice to find the good weather!! It was a great trip we got to spend time together, but the weather was definitely a bummer. Tip...dont go to the Bahamas in hurricane season!!
