Day 3 of our adventure landed us at Nassau, Bahamas. The capital of the Bahamas. Boy was it a gorgeous place. We decided that on this island we wanted to get out and be adventurous and try something new, so we went when we first boarded the ship to sign up for Paddle-boarding.
Denied. It was all sold out. Bummer. So we decided on the next best adventure and signed ourselves up for Parasailing. We got off the ship and did a little exploring downtown and noticed the wind picking up a little bit. We headed over to meet for our excursion and found out that it had been cancelled due to the wind. Dang it. We were really striking out here at Nassau. Now we decided to take a taxi over to Paradise Island where the world famous Atlanis Resort is. I have always wanted to go there, and I promise here and now, that I will actually stay at that property some day. Once we got to Atlantis, we decided to just walk around until somebody stopped us. haha. We got to an info/reservations desk and got ourselves a pass for a Discovery Tour of Atlantis. We decided to do the whole shi-bang and go with our very own tour guide. Sharlene of Nassau. She was fabulous, and full of obscure pop culture references. I loved it!
Here we are waiting for our exciting tour to start!
Random view of our ship, the Carnival Ecstasy.
Atlanis has the world's largest open air aqaurium, and it's awesome! You can even snorkel and touch all this wildlife, but you gotta pay the big bucks for that!
The bridge we are standing on seperates the Humans from the Sharks. Pretty cool..
View of the Royal Towers. That bridge that connects them is called the Michael Jackson Suite, he was the first person to ever stay there. It goes for a whopping $100,000.00 a night and has a 4 night minimum! Yikes!
This vacation was bringing out the little adventurer in me! haha.
This is us in the World Famous tube thingy under the aquarium. It was super cool.
These are called saw fish, and the are not a shark. But are crazy cool. Apparently the usually are just laying on the bottom, but we somehow got the male to be super active. Our guide Sharlene was freaking out and just kept snapping pictures. I really think she might have been more excited than we were!
Moving on, we came to this creature. I can't remember the name of it, so we will call it "Herm". Short for hermaphrodite. Yep, this beauty is born female, and after she is done with kids she turns into a male! Then this he/she/it thing keeps growing huge to about the size of a Volkswagon Beetle!
We also got the pleasure of seeing a really active MantaRay. It was cool to see it so up close.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to this aphrodisiac. This slimy, smelly creature is a Conch. Sharlene said "that you don't need no blue pill or nothing to be sexy, this works, my father he had 17 children." So there you go, the Viagra of the Bahamas.
We found Nemo! This was one of Conor's favorite pop culture references. hahah.
And I swear, if I ever run into one of these in real life I might freak out. ah, just watching them behind glass freaked me out. I really don't like eels.
After our tour of the aquariums and some Atlantis "artifacts" we explored a little on our own. We saw the huge casino, with some crazy cool art and sculptures and then journeyed across a rope bridge, where Conor could be "My Harrison Ford," as Sharlene puts it! haha.
Nassau and Atlantis was really beautiful and I can't wait to start saving up for a family vacation there someday. Not joking, I am saving for like 10-15 years to make this happen! Can't wait!
