Boarding the Ship Today!

I am leaving very shortly to walk to the port to board the MV Explorer!!! I am boarding a day early for work-study. We have a meeting tonight, and then we will be helping with the regular student boarding tomorrow! I am thinking they will let us off the ship tonight after our meeting, so I will have a little more time to explore the beautiful Bahamas.

I spent all day at the beach yesterday, and oh boy did I get sunburnt! I kept putting sunscreen on too! Day 1 of "Alissa's Mission to Actually Get a Tan This Summer" was not so successful. But just you wait, I will master the art of tanning, and come back a nice golden-brown!

We went to dinner at Senor Frogs, which is a CRAZY Mexican restaurant. They had a game of Name That Tune going, where if you knew the tune you had to run across the restaurant to tell the guy. Later the MC had 5 guys standing up on the bar doing a dance off! It was so funny! Dinner concluded with an enormous congo line throughout the restaurant with waiters pouring alcohol into people's mouths! It was insanity...I had never seen a restaurant like that before, and I definitely didn't have any idea what I was getting into when I entered the restaurant. I got tacos, and they were DELICIOUS! It was definitely an interesting experience. After dinner, we headed to the biggest resort on Nassau, Atlantis, to check it out. It was pretty spectacular. We walked and walked and walked through this hotel, and it never ended! There was a giant casino, the world's largest aquarium, stores, restaurants, etc. It was beautiful.

Well, it is time for me to head to the ship!! This is real! It's happening!!!

(Bahamas--first stamp of the trip!)