Planet Vargas: September 2009

Ok first my apologies for the gap between posts. Once again, I have no excuse. Much has happened in three month's time but there's too much to update, so let's move past that, start anew and get to the good stuff!!!

So last week, on September 16th Abel and I celebrated 9 years of marriage! It has been awesome and hard and fun and trying all rolled into one. Not that it has been hard and trying with each other, mostly just with circumstances that have come our way.

Anyways...to celebrate our anniversary this year we went on a cruise to the Bahamas! You know how I love a deal, so because I had so many frequent flyer miles we were able to get 2 free airline tickets and then because we could book our airline tickets any time with no fee, we were able to get a last minute deal on a cruise for way cheap! So we went from Friday to Monday, visited Nassau, Bahamas and Royal Caribbean's private island, Coco Cay. We had a wonderful time, shared a table with some great people and had awesome food!! Oh yeah and we also, ran into a tree with a scooter, snuck into the Atlantas resort beach and then had to be rescued with another scooter because ours died...read on...

On the bus trip over to Port Canaveral to get on the ship

First view once we got on the ship

Pulling into port at Nassau, Bahamas

Atlantis Resort, Nassau, Bahamas

Lighthouse at the end of the beach in Nassau. I love the contrast in the colors of the water!

Nassau

A guy painting one of the other boats that was in the port

Atlantis Resort

Lobby of Atlantis

Aquarium in the lobby of Atlantis. They had about 7 or 8 huge windows like this in the lobby.

This is the beach we snuck into at Atlantis :) Sooooo beautiful and refreshing!

Throughout the resort they had areas where random fish would be swimming around and this one happened to have a bunch of stingrays in it.

Ok so here's the story of us running into the tree with the scooter. In Nassau, you have to drive on the left side of the road. So Abel is driving and we're making our way over to Paradise Island where the Atlantis resort is, and the whole time I'm reminding him, "stay on the left, stay on the left". We get to an intersection and we need to turn left. The light turns green and he proceeds but he's not turning into the left lane, so here I am going, "you gotta stay on the left! You GOTTA STAY ON THE..." BOOM!! We're jumping the median going right between a palm tree and a light pole!! Sad to say, my leg had it out with the tree! It felt like someone had stuck a hot iron on my leg from my knee to my ankle! At the time it was SOOOO not funny, but later that night we were definitely laughing at ourselves!! So we ended up going to Atlantis, but then at the end of the day our scooter wouldn't start and we had to have someone from the rental place come and rescue us :)

View of the ship while in port

You'll recognize this if you've ever been on a cruise! The stateroom attendants usually make animals out of towels each night when they make up your stateroom.