But not quickly! Our game plan is to get off around 11 or so, then walk down to Arawak Cay, the Fish Fry, and have lunch at Curly’s (where we’ve been before) or some other restaurant over there. Since its a slow day, we order breakfast in the cabin, which of course means we aren’t hungry at all by the time we finally make our way off the ship at 11. But, hey, we can just wander. Which we do. We hit the Straw Market which really doesn’t do much for us, beachy stuff, carved wood – we're just not into the market. But the interesting thing is that there are quite a few shops that have notices from the market that they are closed and cannot be opened – and we are assuming they haven’t paid their rent or something, because all the merchandise is there, just behind big tarps with the notice. The bubble is everywhere…..
After the Straw Market, we head toward Arawak, but end up stopping at the Tiki Hut at Junkanoo Beach because a guy handed us a flyer for drink specials.Well, what the hell! We could get 3 beers for $12, which for Nassau is pretty cheap. So, we hung out at the bar, with the blaring music, where they (so smartly!!!) made you clean your hands with Purel (I mean, the bartender literally held the bottle out and squirted it into our hands after we ordered – no opt-out option!). I love it!
To cement our happiness here, another bartender asks how we are doing, and when we ask him how he is doing, he says, “I can drink for free all day, how do you think I’m doing?” Best reply ever!3 beers later (shared between the 2 of us, of course!), we wander down to the beach to just watch the goings on – it is packed. Every beach chair filled, tons of crew (there are 3 ships in port), plus an adorable bachelorette party with the bride in a white bathing suite with great captains cap and veil, and all her bridesmaids in hot pink one pieces with “Girls get Nauti” on the front, and little black lace puffs on the back. Cute! Yep, it’s party city here – especially with a Carnival ship in port.
We decide we are not hungry enough to go to Arawak Cay, and just head back toward the port, stopping at Pirate Republic for beers and snacks. We spend a great hour or two (slow service, but what do we care?) sitting on the 2nd floor balcony, watching the world go by, with Coconut Porter (yum), Pilsner, chicken wings and a pretzel and beer cheese (good, but not stellar – although at this point with all the beer, its exactly what we need!).
Back on the ship, we finish our packing and just sort of hang out until we sail. Gym, one last beer and wine from Mark at the Pool bar, then of course Michael’s – where we find out we are famous! Ed, because as one of the lady’s has said – you always get your own beer – you want a glass tonight? That’s different. And I sit next to a guy who looks at me, as Cransdon gives me my bottle of wine to pour, and says “Oh, you’re the one who pours her own wine!” Yep! That’s me! Cransdon’s been doing that since maybe day 3? If he’s busy, he just puts the wine bottle on the bar and gives me a glass. I know how to do the rest! Too funny!
Dinner – excellent as always – Comedian, completely funny (to us – the rest of crowd was really slow to get into his act), and then to bed for our last night in our awesome little sky suite on the Reflection. People choose this ship as the best on the seas – and quite frankly, even though we know we have been in the “suite” bubble, it has been absolutely fantastic. Can’t say enough about it – just a fabulous 2 weeks.
And now….. we are off to Sanibel…a homecoming of sorts!
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