Day Four, Nassau, Bahamas, May 5

We cruised into Nassau around 1:00 today.  Nassau is home to the famous Atlantis hotel, where at least one of the premier suites rents for $25,000 per night and where they have a big water park that Dallas wanted to check out.  We headed over to see what all the fuss was about.  Wow.  Just, wow!

The hotel is like a small city, and the grounds are beautiful.  I lost count of how many pools and beaches they have, including a lazy river.  There are pools and tanks and underground viewing rooms for the massive aquarium all throughout the grounds.  They have manna pools, shark pools, turtle pools, fish tanks.  Just beautiful.  And of course there is the water park, complete with the water slide that goes through the tank of sharks.

 

The weather was a perfect, balmy, breezy, sunny 75 degrees. 

After a short tour through a tiny section of the aquarium, Dallas headed to the water park.  I got Austin to sleep and successfully put him in the stroller still asleep.  Austin has never slept in his stroller, so this was a good thing. While he slept, I strolled through the hotel buildings, around the aquariums, and over the grounds.  He slept for over two hours.  Once he awoke, I took him to see some of the fishies, and then he had lunch at an outdoor patio.  This was probably the highlight of Austin's day.  There were BIRDS!  Now, you may not understand just how cool these birds were.  One minute they were walking around cawing, and the next minute, they got really big and started to FLY!  It was fascinating.  Austin got off balance in his high chair a few times trying to see where the birds were going.  I kept having to chase his mouth around to feed him because he was so intrigued by the birds.

Austin and I met Dallas back in town and made it to the Harley Davidson shop for T-shirts before they closed.  Then, we headed back to the ship to get a very fussy little boy to bed.  This took quite a bit of doing since Austin was in the process of getting his 3rd tooth!