Today we arrived in our final port - Norwegian's Cruise Line's private Island in the Bahamas, Great Stirrup Cay. Orginally, this was going to be our only stop in the Bahamas, as we were going to spend the night in Havana, Cuba, but since we got re-routed this was our third stop in the Bahamas. Jaime and I are actually really glad that we got to experience other parts of the Bahamas, as this private Island was really just an extension of the ship, and you really d...

First of all, this I am still getting used to this blog website, and it turns out since I already had an album titled "Nassau, Bahamas" It joined my photos together with some photos from 12 years ago on Semester at Sea, so my apologies if you got any weird notifications about an album about Semester at Sea. I was trying to rearrange the photos. So, to the fun stuff....We arrived in port today, and again left our curtains open, so were greeted with the bright Bah...

Today was just awesome! A really great start to our Bahamian experience. I did learn a valuable lesson about rum, but more on that later.... We got up early enough to hit the breakfast buffet (our favorite part of ANY vacation!) and headed off the ship to meet up with our ride to our excursion. First of all, you have to walk outisde on the top deck to get to the buffet, and at 8am, it was already HOT as balls. We left the curtains open last night, so was cool to...

Well, I knew it. I slept so well last night that I slept through my first class this morning! But at least I wasn't alone. My roommate did as well. The class I slept through was Global Studies and we actually had the intro to it yesterday. And I talked to some people and they said I really didn't miss much, so that is good. So I just went straight to the gym, ate lunch, then went to my other class - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Family. The gym went well, I actu...

I am here in my room all ready for bed. I am so exhausted! Its not "quiet hours" just yet, but I was pretty close to falling asleep during our opening meeting tonight, so I am just gonna sleep early. Although there were a couple of things that the Dean said that I thought were interesting to share. He said that there are three things to remember about this trip. 1. We are not just going to sight see. We are going to sight "think." 2. This is not a 'boat,' this is...