2-9-04 Nassau:

  Next morning we headed to Tritans restaurant instead of the buffet and had a sit down breakfast.

 Dad stopping on our way to Tritans to flirt with Ariel.

 Waiting for breakfast.

 The Disney ships have 3 regular restaurants and in the evening everyone rotates to different restaurants---rather a neat idea. Your table mates and servers remain the same, but the ambience is different.

 back to admiring the ship decor

 We wandered the decks a bit while we waited for clearance to go ashore.

 Our view of Nassau from the ship deck

 More views of Nassau

 Sign on the Disney ship.

 More of the Disney ship

 Maintenance vacuuming the pool

 Finally going ashore

 Dad wanted to see Atlantis, so we did the ship's Atlantis excursion.  But first, we saw a little of the town.

 Milo Boughton Butler---He was Governor General from 1973 until his death in Nassau in 1979. He is commemorated with a statue located in downtown Nassau across from the Parliament House and his portrait is on the Bahamas $20 note.

 Love the bench made of conch shells

 More of downtown

 Looking across to Atlantis

 More views of the exterior of our ship

 Back to the ship to wait for our excursion

 along one of the walkways

 On our excursion boat to Atlantis

 Nice beach!

 Views of Atlantis from the water

 Our main interest were the eleven exhibit lagoons with over 200 species of beautiful tropical fish including a predator lagoon alive with sharks, barracudas, and stingrays.

 There was even a 100-foot long clear, underwater viewing tunnel passing through the predator lagoon.

 The aquariums were well worth seeing.

  The excursion ended at the casino, but we walked back through the aquariums, then back through town to the ship.

I expected more of a modern city, so was a bit disappointed in Nassau. It was a typical Bahama town--older, rustic, full of beggers. We didn't spend much time in the town itself before we were ready to head back to the ship. (on a later cruise I was back on Nassau and surprised at how much I liked it.  It didn't look at all like I remembered!)

 Our towel buddy that night.

 That evening was our dinner at Animations (after the jacuzzi, of course).

 Dinner was great, our dinner mates were great, the restaurant was great

  the walls and waiter's jackets even changed colors while we were eating.

 A couple of our table mates even got married when they were on Nassau!

 Our servers.

 Another view of the restaurant as we were leaving.

 After dinner we attended the play Hercules. It was a cute play. Then we shopped some of the stores on the ship.
That night (11pm), we went to the pre-view of the new Disney movie, Miracle (about the USA hockey team that took 1st in the Olympics). It was really good.
Another late night and good night for sleeping.