Boat Trip - Days 8 - 10
June 11th – 13th AM
MONDAY – June 11th
We set sail for Atlantis around 1 PM. I had warned everyone to prepare for some
rough seas to start. It was blowing East
/ North East at 18 MPH, which is a lot for the open ocean. Only the first part of the trip was in the
open ocean and the waves weren’t as bad as predicted. After 20 minutes we made the turn towards
Nassau, which put North Eluthra between us and the open ocean. The waves died down and the next 5 hours to
Nassau was as good as boating gets. We
spent the trip reading, playing games, eating, etc.
We pulled in to Nassau and got ourselves docked around 6:30
PM. My good buddy Evan happened to be at
Atlantis this weekend with his family so we invited them all to the boat and
hung out for a few hours. The kids all
wanted to go to the kids club so we approved that request and us adults headed
to Nobu for an amazing dinner. After
dinner we did a small bit of gambling before calling it a night.
TUESDAY – June 12th
We had a slow morning – we all sat around the dinning room
table sipping coffee and catching up.
After everyone was up we put on our bathing suits and migrated through
the Atlantis lobby, through the casino, out the back door and down to the lazy
river. We blasted our way through the
rapids, down the slides and eventually made our way to the pool. My daughters still aren’t doing the big “leap
of faith” slide,,, perhaps next year. We
grabbed some lunch and then made our way through the big dig over to the family
hip-hop pool. Around 5 we decided to
make our way back to the boat but not after one more hoo-rahhh down the
slides. I’m sure the Atlantis loves
their marina customers walking through the casino soaking wet since there isn’t
another way to get to the marina.
Back at the boat the kids jumped in the hot tub while the
rest of us did our own thing. The kids
had a quick dinner before Rich took them all to Jonny Rockets for milk
shakes. They were LOVING it. The kids didn’t want to go to the club tonight
so they setup their own club on the boat, complete with a VIP section and DJ. We weren’t invited. We ate our dinner on the back of the boat and
watched the people walk by (we had a great location on the dock).
The kids hit the sack around 10 PM. Katie and Assunta hung out on the back of the
boat while Rich and I sought out a blackjack table that would pay us lots of
money. After donating a few bucks to the
Atlantis and learning about Rich’s “chaos theory”, we decided to find our own table
and create our own positive energy. It
worked,,, we made a new friend (Mike from California) – and a lot of high-fives
later, we walked away happy.
Back at the boat we found the girls right where we left
them. Joey and Jerry (friends from
Sarasota) were sitting with them so Rich and I joined the party and sat around
telling stories (and making up new stories for the people docked next to
us). We even used the infrared radar camera on the boat to spy on folks around the marina. We called it a night around 2 AM
knowing we could sleep in. The crew was
instructed to set sail at 7 AM for Pig Island.
WEDNESDAY AM – June 13th
I heard Jessica knock on our door to take Savannah for a
walk. Shortly thereafter I heard the
engines start up and the boat starting to move.
I drifted back to sleep and woke up two hours later. We’re now three hours in to the six hour trip
from Nassau to Pig Island. We call it
Pig Island because it’s famous for the wild hogs that will swim out from the
island to get food from the generous boaters on their dingy. We plan on anchoring for two nights just off
the beach. The seas are perfectly calm;
you can’t even feel the boat moving.
We’re all sitting up top as I write this (well, a few kids and Rich are
still downstairs presumably sleeping) and there is a cool breeze,,,, life is
good.
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