This week was nothing short of a blast. Bruce's sister, Di came with family and friends all from Lancaster PA and we had so much fun. The group consisted of Di and her husband, Joe, there daughter Nicky, who worked on the boat with Bruce a couple summers ago and her husband Jessie (they are my age which kinda freaked me out). They were all really friendly and great and introduced me to Catan (new favorite board game)! Then there were the friends, the couples being Doug and Lynette and Eric and Wendy and then Dee and her husband Ivan, Bruce's old wrestling coach, and their two sons, Braden and Cameron. Steven, our friend down here who went on a trip with us on our week off and runs us for groceries every week and took Matt and I to dolphin encounters came to because he had the week off work. Since the weather was pretty rough out of the south and we would be fighting the wind the whole sail down to the exumas we decided instead to head towards north-east to eluthera and it was great. We stopped by Spanish Wells, Dolphin beach, Harbor Island, and Preachers Cave.
Enjoying Eric's freshly shaven head!
There are many highlights to report this week. The Bahamians were celebrating their 38th year of Independence on Monday so we joined in the celebrations! Sunday was spent in Spanish Wells eating delicious conch salad on Jared (Bruce's friend who lives in Spanish Wells) floating bar he built himself while it pored rain all around us in the ocean. It was so much fun. Monday night was my favorite as we spent it sitting on deck and singing all the camp songs anyone could think of! It started with Live of the sunny side of life which I had never heard and came up from the Galley to Eric in the spotlight singing this song with everyone joining it. It went on to all the classics including hand motions such as “Button Factory”, “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toe” and “Tony Chestnut” and the always hit “The Banana Song”. We ended with Steven singing the Bahamas national anthem and us ours and watching fireworks it was a blast. We also swam around dolphin cove and watched a pod of dolphins swim right by us and did a rope swing out of a cave! It was a lot scarier just climbing up into the cave than the actual swing part. More memorable times included watching Di teach Eric and Braden how to dive of the dive platform with many spectators including myself offering our advice. Exploring Harbor island and getting to drive a golf cart on the left side of the road. Enjoying the pink sand beaches with Wendy, Eric, Matt, Lynette and Doug and them very generously treating me to an amazingly delicious 10 oz cheeseburger. Did I mention it was delicious? Eric was renamed red fish because he wore all red and had a pretty solid sunburn from day one but it was a term of endearment. He also became a penguin, not sure how, but he was also called emperor eric and would jump of the bow acting like a penguin and it was awesome. We had cannonball competitions and awesome jumps of all sorts of the bow. It was really fun. Lynette and Doug made us all laugh all week talking about how they met and life in general, Lynette really should be a stand up comedian. I had late night theology talks with Steven and whoever else would decide to stay up and of course in preparation we watched Harry Potter 7 part 1. We explored Preachers Cave where the original settlers of Lutheran crashed and lived for years in this huge and very cool cave. Steven told all the history of everything Bahamas and was the groups personal tour guide so for details you should ask him I can never remember, I thought it was called Creatures cave till I went in and saw the sign!
The rope swing out of a cave! yep it was awesome
Then of course the end of the week had us back in Nassau Thursday night so that we could make it into Atlantis Marina early in the morning on Friday to enjoy a whole day in the park. It was awesome. Steven was very excited to actually have an official wristband and none of us took anytime to get on the slides and enjoy the Lazy Crazy river as it is so rightly named. Steven, Lynette, Doug, Wendy and Eric found ourselves floating along at 9:30 am in the river thinking how great life is and Eric already swearing he wasn't leaving the river all night! We had a blast doing the drop slides, The abyss and Leap of Faith and Eric had the best screams of all and Lynette had to be convinced to do the slides... I didn't tell her the abyss was a drop slide of course. Doug decided he could do the Leap of Faith all day and poor wendy got talked onto one tube slide and hurt her ankle. We still managed to all have a blast. Including almost all of us floating down rapids in a giant group all holding on to one another and screaming and singing our way around the park. We got to one pool with waterfalls that massaged your backs (my favorite of course) and there was a live band so of course Bruce, Matt, Eric, Wendy on one leg and I danced our hardest and the band loved us! It was so much fun! In the end the day was just a blast and only got better. We had dinner back at the boat of ribs delivered from Berthas (soooo good) with peas and rice and Mac and cheese.
Then the best part of the night, Sheila and Bruce let me sneak of with Steven and see HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2. All I can say is if you haven't seen it your life is not complete. It was so good. Lynette and Doug couldn't resist either so they joined to. I loved seeing it in the Bahamas because people are much more vocal down here. The opening credits come on just announcing the movie and the whole place was in an uproar of cheers and applause. I knew it would be good. They laughed at all the one liners, there were a ton, and cheered when a bad guy got what he deserved and sighed at all the sad parts. I loved it. It was awesome. Then poor Steven, Doug and Lynette had to listen to me go on forever comparing it to the book and all my favorite parts and what they should or shouldn't have left out. I did love it though. I will stop going on about it but go see it.
As you can see it was a busy and really fun week. I loved the group and was very very sad to say goodbye to all of them. I enjoyed all of them so much and apparently have to go up and visit them as soon as I start pronouncing Lancaster correctly…
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