The Bahamas

On Sunday, Chadd and I left for our three daycation to the Bahamas for our seventh wedding anniversary! We stayed at the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island, which is gi-normous and I'm sure was quite the place in it's heyday, but the maintenance on it hasn't been that great, and they obviously have taken quite a hit with the economy. The Sea Lion trainer said that a few weeks ago they were only booked to 16% capacity, and we found out the hard way that only 1 or 2 of the hotels 8 fine dining restaurants are open each night. But we made the most of it! :) Monday was our actual anniversary and we did a Sea Lion interaction in the morning where we got to hug, kiss, feed and pet Cassie, the California Sea Lion. Cassie is what the trainer called their "Rock star" sea lion, as she's the one that meets all the celebrities when they come. Cassie has met Miley Cyrus, the Jonas brothers, and Brad, Angelina and the kids. I asked if Cassie had ever met George Michael, but she has not! That afternoon we floated around a ride called "The Current" which was one of the best parts of the weekend, part lazy river, part river rapids it was bad ass! We rode that for hours, then we went to the pool for a few more hours! Nice relaxing day, Ahhhh! For dinner we had Italian at Casa D'Angelo, molto bene! Tuesday morning we snorkeled with the Manta Rays in their Ruins Lagoon. I had no idea how big Manta Rays are, they are HUGE! They have two Manta Rays, Achilles and Adonis, but Adonis hasn't been eating so they had him quarantined so we only got to swim with Achilles. We flew home Tuesday afternoon and it was back to real life!