the one on the big boat, day five.

Day five.  Freeport.   Finally, we could get on a beach!

We got up early, pack us a day bag, ate some breakfast and headed off the boat.  The first thing we did was go to the straw market since it was right there off the dock.

We contemplated on getting our "bahama mama braid" on.

 

The weather didn't seem to be in our favor on this day either..

  

 So we got our group of ten together to grab a taxi to head to an area made for touring and walking around.  The taxi people did not seem to care for us because our group was so big.   So we wasted the time with picture taking!

 

 

Finally, we met a lovely lady named Gussy, who took us to our destination.

We can describe the experience by this one picture.

 

 

So we walked, talked, shopped, explored.. & finally got our feet into salty water.  During our adventures we found some coconuts to try and figure out how Tom Hanks did it on Cast Away.

 

Also, we decided to do a little Dirty Dancing...

 

&& we finally perfected it.

 

 

After several hours of walking around and being off the boat, we called up Gussy and headed back to the boat for lunch and relaxing before supper.

For supper.. Mahi Mahi.  Enough said.

..topped off with strange, yet good rendition of Baked Alaska.

For the rest of the night we just hung out.. went to one more comedy show then called it a night.  Before we could even finish our dreams were back at Port Canaveral ready to head back to Raleigh.

The trip was so so so fun!  It was such a good experience regardless of the weather.  Im so thankful that our group of ten got along so well and were able to roll with the punches the weather presented us! 

the one on the big boat, day four.

Okay, so day 4.  Our cabin got up, threw on our bathing suits, pack our day bags and headed towards breakfast.  On the way up, we realized that our boat was not porting and still gettin' it on sea with no shore line in sight.  The capital then came on the intercom to tell us that the seas were too rough for them to safely port at Half Moon Caye.  Bummer.  For the second time.  But we were positive in thinking that today would be another great day at sea.. like our first one. 

However, most of us were exhausted -- staying up late, drained from the sun, excitement of Nassau wearing us down.. so we scoped out the weather and realized it was cloudy.. and deemed it perfectly fine for us to head back to our cabins for a couple more hours of sleep.  We did exactly that, and finally went on the deck and read our books and magazines.  We did this while hiding from the wind and cloudy skies under our towels and keeping our bathing suit coverups on.  I didn't even bring my camera up to the deck.  Pretty low key day.  Spring break is all about getting rest.  && on our second day at sea, we did just that.

At the ripe ages of the early twenties, we took on the night to spice up day four.

 

 

Some of us took on karaoke.  && not just any karaoke.. Backstreet Boys Karaoke..

..with interpretive dancing from the audience.

&& then we ended the night at the penny slots.

Once again, started as a fail -- ended as another successful day at sea!

Stay tuned for Free Port -- lots of pictures in the next post!