Cruise Day 2 - Nassau, Bahamas

On Day 2 we woke up in Nassau!  We decided to go on an all day excursion to the Atlantis Resort, and it was INCREDIBLE!  We rode ALL the water slides, and were like little kids in a candy store we were having so much fun!  I don't think I could afford to go to Atlantis for an entire vacation, but it was just perfect to stop and go for the day...I can't wait to go back!

You know how they are always taking your pictures on a cruise and then want you to buy them?
We didn't buy this, but we did take a picture of the picture they took!  HA!

EVERYWHERE around Atlantis is BEAUTIFUL...there are aquariums everywhere!

We went out to the beach at Atlantis...don't think I've EVER seen water this beautiful!

Who knew Erika and Tab could be on America's Next Top Model?

Right in the middle of all the water slides and pools, this mini "parade" came through.
The drum music was so cool, I just had to jump in the parade!

Poor Erika, because she is preggers she didn't get to enjoy all the water slides like we did,
but she was busy laying out and reading while Tab, Ryan, and I headed to the slides.

If these guys win the lottery, maybe they will bring us back so we can stay in the middle
section.  It's only $10,000 a night!

After spending all morning in the sun, we decided to take a break and go look at all the archaeological stuff at Atlantis.  There is a huge indoor area called "The Dig" that has all the original ruins found in the lost city of Atlantis...SO COOL!  Tab and I were in our "history element" and loved all the ruins.  Erika and Ryan were a little more into the fish!

Ryan took this picture and told me he thought it was really "artistic". HA!
I was so excited telling Erika about how this was a real staircase thousands of years ago...look how
interested she looks...HA!

They have built aquariums around all of the ruins...it is just breathtaking!

Erika decided this was some ancient kind of torture chamber.  

This is a recreation of the "suits" that were found at Atlantis.  Supposedly, the people built these
and used them in an attempt to save their city.  To this day, they still don't know exactly how the city
was destroyed...possibly by a volcano or tsunami.  Has anyone seen this cartoon movie?
We were all joking that we needed to watch it now!

This was the most fun lazy river EVER...it was kind of a mix between a lazy river and the thunder river
from Six Flags...there were parts with huge waves and rapids...I don't know how someone thinks
about inventing this!

Racing down the water slides!

What five year old wouldn't be obsessed with playing here?

And the craziest water slide I've ever been on...a straight drop through a shark tank...no big deal!
This was on the Amazing Race several seasons ago.  The girl refused to go down and missed out
on a million dollars!  Ryan, Tab, and I all went down it and it WAS scary, but not that scary!

Sharks around the slide...
There were LOTS of other super creative and fun water slides, but we didn't take any pictures.
They even had baby slides that kids would go down to get from pool to pool....yep,
I'll admit it.  I waited in line behind four year olds to go down some of them...it was that fun!

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Atlantis was just the most INCREDIBLE resort.  Of course they had exclusive restaurants, a casino, super high end shopping, and gazillions of acres of perfectly manicured lawns, aquariums, and a bazillion hotel rooms.  WOW...that's all I can say!  We had a BLAST and if you are thinking about going...DO IT!