Ben and Linds: Bahamas Cruise

We finally went on our Bahamas cruise that we have been so anxiously awaiting! It was fabulous and quite adventurous as well. Here is the whole story...So first of all we were goingto fly standby but then the night before we started to realize maybe everyone who can fly stanby found the same deal on the cruise

that we had so flights were overbooked and a ton of people on standby. Basically, there was

no way we were getting out without having to pay for our flights. Mind you its the day before the cruise and now we are looking at purchasing flights. We suck it up and decide to go ahead and spend our life's savings (I'm being

super dramatic) on some flights. I don't know if I posted about

this already but we are living with my parents

now renting out a room. Anywhoo...so we go into our room to pack and my mom comes running in and says this flight is for 7am! Its approx. 9am when she says this. Then I grab the paper and see it is for 7am on Monday the same day our returning flight is for.

I swore outloud in front of my mother. From working in the airlines previously and my mom working in them I know its going to cost us another fortune to change them unless they have some sort of 24 hour rule. So we call the airlines they are telling me they will waive the increase in fare but its going to be $150 per person to change so another $300 dollars

and then the supervisor gets on the phone basically

calls me stupid and Ben has Expedia on

the other phone they say no change fee they are just going to cancel and rebook

and we'll just pay what it normally costs. I say "Thanks, Buh Bye" sarcastically of course to the airlines and we are good to go. I have to have to have to mention this crazy guy we sat next to on the plane ride out I can't tell you how

many times he went to the bathroom and I wish I could show you how he passed me and Ben. He was sitting in the

window he would grab the eisle seats handle and take one large step to the eisle same thing coming back. We were dozing off and on throughout the flight

it was a red eye. We wake up because we are beginning to land and crazy guy is no

t buckled in next to me... UHHH?? I look at Ben??? Then I look and the floor and crazy leg man is lying in on the floor!!! WEIRD and CRAZY! The flight attendant passes us and I point to him and she wakes him up I am so not being that person. Ok so moving on. We get to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and everything is good for now. We flew into Fort Lauderdale because on our cruise itinerary said our port was in Fort Lauderdale. We come down the escalator and there are NCL cruise line reps who say $25 per person to take us to the port which doesn't make sense because the taxi driver is telling us $15 total but they are both saying different ports. So we call the cruise line. She asks ifI have our boarding pass.

Boarding pass what no?

She says they will DENY us boarding if we don't have it. What the hell???

***Side note this blog is becoming extremely long so I'm going to try and bipass some details*** We find a nice lady at the business center at the airport to print out our boarding passes and find that it's actually the Port of Miami which is about an hour away. Now Ben and I are normally not very supersticious but at this point we both have huge eyes wondering if this trip is really a good idea because so far things are not going very smoothly.

We make it to the cruise ship get some food take a nap life is good. We then

find out that unlike our other cruise there are cover

charges for some of the restaurants to eat at and we just eat alone at our own time. Oh well... it

was nice to just have time to ourselves. The next day we w

ere in Nassau, Bahamas. Here are some pictures upon arrival:

We bought an exurcision which was the Aquaadventure at the Atlantis Hotel.

This is the Atlantis Hotel...ITS HUGE!

For the aquaadventure you have an all day pass to the hotels water park and aquarium. They had some way fun slides one of which you got almost straight down into

shark infested waters...No joke!

I came out and Ben said I had serious fear in my eyes...hahaha

And here are some awesome pictures for the AMAZING aquarium. They had like a 12 foot sting ray but he was super quick I kept trying to catch a picture of him but he was too swift! Also, I so very much want one of the mini seahorses...