Bahamas

Well here we are still trying to catch up to where we should be so I decided to write a quick post on our honeymoon activities! We ended up having a really long honeymoon, starting with a 4 night cruise to the Bahamas!

We had 3 stop on our cruise, the first being in Key West. While there, we rented bikes and rode around the town, seeing the beaches and neighborhoods and the cool houses that line the streets. Because we were on bikes, we were able to get across the island alot faster than those who were walking, and as a result we were able to see several things before all the cruise crowds got there....like the southernmost point in the United States!



While there, we also saw lots of beaches, a cool old fort used in wars, and we are the best key lime pie and shake I have ever had! The pie tastes so much better than the key lime pie I have had up here. Anyways, the next day we went to Nassau, Bahamas, where we did a little shopping and toured the Atlantis Hotel, which is very pretty. The hotel itself is amazing, and then to top it off they have amazing pools and beaches and aquariums etc...it is easily the nicest hotel I have ever seen in my life.



That fountain is what greets you as you drive up to the hotel. You are actually supposed to pay like 30 or more bucks a person to see more than the lobby of the hotel, but we were walking and before we knew it we were out on the grounds past the point where we were supposed to have paid. But we fit right in and no one was there to stop us, so we saw most of the hotel for free! Caitlin got sick this day, so it was a bit of a rough day for us (I had to leave her in the hotel lobby while I searched for some sort of medicine for her, which I found and it helped).

The next day we went to the private island of Coco Cay, which was alot of fun. We did kayaking, snorkeling, we laid out in the sun (bad idea after going snorkeling, we got sun burnt so bad!) It was a really fun day, and was the day that we did most of the water activities on our trip. The snorkeling was especially fun, and after I got Caitlin convinced that we were not going to be eaten by sharks we were able to swim normally and enjoy the coral and the fish and the very warm water. We swam over by the lifeguard stand that was out in the water where people were snorkeling and we kind of sat down for a minute, and the next thing we knew Caitlin was getting attacked by fish! They where swimming all around her legs and jumping in her lap, and she was a bit freaked out...until we noticed the lifeguard guy above us throwing fish food right where Caitlin was sitting. It was pretty funny. Kayaking was also fun, we saw a shark and several conch shells, and it was just gorgeous clear blue water. We loved it! hmm no pictures of kayaking though, we didn't want to get our camera wet and we hadn't bought the underwater one yet.



It was overall a really fun cruise, we loved it cause it was just so laid back. Almost no work for us, and it was a great honeymoon! Unfortunately we both came back with really bad sunburns, although those faded after a week or so....I suggest if any of you go snorkeling that you put on sunscreen before, even if you put some on earlier in the day. Oh I would show pictures of snorkeling, but we bought this little underwater camera and used it, and have the pictures printed from it, but the problem is we accidentally opened up the back of the camera before winding the film (who uses film anymore? Not us, which is where this problem came from) and we over exposed all of our pictures. So....some of them are lost completely, some of them are overexposed, and some made it though ok. Anyways, that was our cruise, there are so many more pictures and stories but that is the overview.