Nassau, Friday November 25, 2011

We didn’t dock until noon so we went to breakfast and went to look at photos. This ship has some of the coolest technology.  The photos are all done by facial recognician.  They have carosels with folders by deck and then by cabin and all the photos taken of you or of those in your cabin are in that folder regardless of where on the ship they were taken.  That is really nice.  They also have touch screens by all the elevators where you can enter a cabin number or public room name and it will tell you how to get there from where you are.  The elevators however were almost always overcrowded and so the boards should have had alternate routes as well.  The kids went to play chess and shuffleboard. Soon we were off the ship and trying to find our ride which took about 20 minutes but it all came together and he had reserved us a room at the Royal Towers in Atlantis which was really nice since we didn’t have far to walk to the slides and areas the kids wanted to do. This gave us wristbands with total access to the entire property. The air was cool and it was cloudy off and on but Teresa and the kids had a blast. Paige said she would give Lindsay $1 if she would do the shark ride…bribery works because she did it! They love it here at Atlantis but you would need to be here a week to do everything...but Teresa and the kids tried to cover everything they could in 5 hours.  We got back to the ship with time to spare and started packing and then headed to dinner in the Manhattan dining room which had a band with a singer and a dance floor. Dinner was good and Teresa and I had a couple drinks and it took the waiter so long to go get them we were worried he had passed away (he was very old or at least appeared to be) but the food was good and we all enjoyed it. On NCL you pick your time to disembark and in turn must go get your own luggage tags. We did that on the way back to the cabin and finished up the packing and turned in. Lindsay and I watched as we came into Miami this morning at 5:15 AM and then went back to sleep for an hour before we had to get up and get ready to leave.  We are now at the airport waiting to head back to Atlanta. It was a great week and as Chris says “it was the best cruise so far!”. 

The kids enjoyed their ride back to Atlanta in first class but were more excited to see Daddy when he picked us up from the airport.  They talked all the home in the car telling him everything they did....they were sad it was over but happy to be home with Dad again.