Welcome To The Bahamas

Finally getting to writing on this after a really, really long weekend. Good news is: I made it to the Bahamas! We bought a different flight on Friday morning because we were worried about my layover in Atlanta. This flight went straight to Miami, and it worked out perfectly because my original flight ended up being canceled and  I would have been stuck. We got an email from Semester at Sea today, and I guess a bunch of students are stuck in the storm and can't get to the Bahamas. 

Anyways, last night we had a Bon Voyage party with family and friends. 

It was SO good to see everyone one more time. People stayed until around 10, and I stayed up packing and re-checking all of my passport and visa info until 3am. We left for LAX at 4am and everything went super smoothly. 

There were 3 SAS students sitting by me during our layover, and we shared a cab to our different hotels once we landed. It was fun seeing the entire customs section of the airport in the Bahamas filled with SAS students and families. Olivia (my roommate in the Bahamas), her friend from home, and three SAS students who all go to Vanguard with her were waiting for me to get to the hotel so we could go to dinner. We ended up walking to this Italian place a couple blocks down. It was late by the time we got back, and we're all super tired from traveling so we decided to call it a night and the guys headed back to their hotel. 

I wish I could tell you all how beautiful the Bahamas is, but I got here at night and have not been able to explore or see anything yet at all! I guess I will just have to update this soon. Our plan for tomorrow is to do this snorkeling adventure. It's a four hour tour, and they take us out on a boat. The first hour is exploring a cave or something....the second is snorkeling around a shipwreck....and the third is snorkeling with sharks ( I guess they put bait at the bottom way below us and we watch them). I'm not completely sold on the idea....I was all about the cage diving with Great Whites in South Africa when I'm in a cage...this just sounds crazy though! I guess they're little sharks though so I guess the next time I update this you'll know if I chickened out or not! 

Ok, I'm running on one hour of sleep so I'm going to wrap this up. I miss you all! 

<3 B