Bahamas part 2

The last night on the island we went to a bonfire on the beach party.

 See the dude to the right of the fire wearing a yellow shirt? Well his wife (black swimsuit) was from Iowa. The drunker she got the more people she told that we and the Dougherty's were from Iowa. Joe and Joseph were always wearing Iowa T-shirts, and she would stop and point and yell "hey Iowa!" It was pretty funny.

 This was fun. There was a fire dancer at the bonfire party, and she went around feeling for some hairy legs to do a trick with. Guess who's legs she found? Ya, she burned off Joe's leg hair. When Joe sat down the lady next to him said that she could smell the burnt hair from his leg.

 Our last few minutes on the Bahama island we got a quick drink. They had little stands all around the port, and one was serving drinks from a coconut. We shared a strawberry daiquiri-minus the alcohol of course.

 We'd never seen a sailboat like this before. It was pretty cool.

 Back on the cruise ship and headed to Florida.

I've said it once and i'll say it again, that was the best vacation ever. The island had some of the most beautiful scernery i've ever seen. We were able to get our tickets on a groupon deal, so if you ever stumble across a discounted trip to the bahamas-DO IT! everyone should be able to see how beautiful it is there.

I love it when we're cruisin together

After graduation we went on a cruise with our friends Joseph and Angela Dougherty. Here we are out on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze as we sail from Florida to the Grand Bahama Island.

 Once we docked we rode a bus to our hotel. Some poor pregnant woman puked the moment she stepped off of the bus. Then a hungover dude did the same. I didn't feel as bad for him.

Here was our hotel.

Did I mention that our hotel had a private beach?

We were pretty thrilled.

We got to ride on a banana boat. I totally freaked out the entire time. Not many people know this about me, but I have a pretty significant water phobia. I blame it on watching Jaws so many times at a young age. Anyway, we got to see one of the ships they used while filming Pirates of the Carribean.

 The next morning we went snorkeling! I was so scared to go. I'd had a dream the night before that I'd been eaten by a shark. I asked Joe if we could sell our tickets, but fortunately he didn't let me. Snorkeling was by far my favorite experience.  I got over my fear pretty quickly once I saw that there were a large group of us going and there were a bunch of people who were slower swimmers and juicier meals for a shark. This is right after snorkeling, but right before a major sunburn.

after scuba diving we hung out in the market place, got some lunch, and then swam in the ocean for like 3 hours. ya, I told you we got sunburned. After all of that we were pretty tuckered out, so we headed up to our room. Here is the view from our balcony. Amazing right? It was so beautiful there. I can't even describe how perfect it was. The weather, the views, the ocean, the room-it was probably the best vacation i will ever take.

ok, right now I have a bunch of photos i'd still like to post, but since our internet is so sketchy i'm going to wait to post the rest until we can get internet set up at our apt. I guess we'll call this Part 1.