Ready to set sail on the MV Explorer

Hi Everyone!
Sorry I haven't been on here for a couple of days. We have had so much fun, and little time to go on the internet. Our hotel is amazing. There are pools everywhere, with caves and waterfalls you can go in, and we are right on the beach. Catherine came in yesterday (Monday) afternoon around 3. She was so excited to see the view from our hotel, and it still hadn't hit us that we were in the BAHAMAS. A year ago, we would have never thought that we would be here during our last semester of college.
We put on our suits, got drinks at the bar downstairs and went straight to the beach. It wasn't too hot out, but was still pretty nice weather. We took lots of fun pictures of us jumping on the beach..we were REALLY excited to be reunited after a month of not seeing each other.

We met up with my roommate and her friend back in the hotel, changed into clothes and went to Senor Frogs for dinner. We got there pretty early, and had no idea how crazy it would get a few hours later. It was soooo much fun. SAS students started trickling in throughout the night, and it was packed by 10. The workers at Senor Frogs were so fun, and we had a lot of fun...

Catherine and I took a cab back around midnight and went to the pool and jacuzzi. Catherine stayed in our hotel that night, but had to get up in the morning to go to the ship and start her work study.

After Catherine had left, Olivia and I headed down to the beach. There was a local man selling coconut drinks on the beach, and it was really fun watching him cut it open. I tried real coconut for the first time. I thought it was kind of gross at first, but by the end of the day I loved it and ate almost half a coconut. We just hung out around the pool/beach all day and caught up on some reading we need to do for classes. Catherine got back from work around 6:45 and we went downtown to the "Fish Fry" for some authentic Bahamian food. I'm really trying to taste all of the different foods, but it's hard not to want to order chicken fingers when I see some of the things on these menus. We really wanted to try Conch before we left, so we got a platter to share of grilled conch, lobster, shrimp, and conch fritters. The grilled conch was rubbery like calamari, but was pretty good! We took pictures, but they're on Catherine's phone so I'll have to upload them later.
After dinner we walked down to Senor Frogs again and had so much fun with the workers and other SAS students. Everyone is so nice and excited about leaving tomorrow~
I have to get up in 4 hours to pack and leave for the ship so I'm going to sign off the internet- This is probably the last time I will be able to update my blog myself since we only have email for free on the ship. I'll be emailing Aimee my blog posts from now on, and she will be posting them (thanks aimers).

See you all in 3.5 months!