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I’m going with connoisseur.😀

Vision of the Seas is beside us. I’ve never seen her before. Her wing bridge is open air. Her maiden sailing was May 1998.

That’s right Crockett.

We asked multiple locals, we met along the way, which was the best spot at fish fry we never got the same answer twice.

Lunch at Oh Andros. Lisa’s eye popped out of her head when she saw her plate. That’s right, just one for full visual effect. She had fried chicken, mac and cheese, lettuce and tomato. I got the fish sticks, fried shrimp, coleslaw and Mac and cheese. Rice comes with all the meals. The plates were topped off as high as Mt Kilimanjaro. All very delicious. Bahamas also just celebrated their 50th anniversary in early July. Thanks to Coca Cola I now know.

A few shots from the new port area. Many stores are not open yet, with final renovations on-going. It opened in May. Braids are still available.

We have returned. Dipped in the pool and got some beverages for our balcony. Left birthday wishes for a hall mate. And found a photo on-line of our sail away from someone’s cabin. I see us.

Just came back from fish fry and it was much busier. More like a normal day.

It is a port day but it was full on embarkation day. I’d say it’s at full capacity if not more. I might ask if I see the right person.

More likely.

$20 taxi to get here.

Off to fish fry.

This behemoth was in port too. She was arriving when we sailed out Sunday. Clearly a ship only a mother could love.

A couple arrival photos. Looks like the Colonial Hilton is undergoing some work. She has been closed for a little while, but was open when cruising started up out of Nassau. There have been Bahamian news articles saying it will be reopened but has undergone some issues.

Yesterday this was awaiting our return to our cabin. I’d like to thank our UsualTa for the nice surprise. Lisa or I might have taken a small bite prior to photo time.

Meanwhile at the Solarium Pool, Lisa held down the fort to keep everyone at bay. When I left she and the lifeguard were the only ones and when I returned she and the lifeguard were the only people here.

Back from advanced riding. Just two of us. My legs feels the burn. I have to say that the way is not as good as other ships because it is the new inflatable wave, not a trap like mat with spring tension. This old dog is coming up with some new tricks to hang on.

Good morning @Ukigirl. I will answer this question in the post cruise wrap up. Don’t want to put final thoughts together yet.

Here we come.

Police boats. Our escorts while leaving the harbour.

Me too. Very good news.

There we are. Can you see me waving from the balcony? Kidding. Let me try and fix the photo. 😉

We have done a B2B on Allure before and the procedure was similar but on the day of, but different as the day before they had a meeting to explain the process. The letter we received the other day in our cabin was clear enough on the process. To clarify we received our new cabin card and in transit card once at the B2B meeting point. From meeting to being back on the ship it took just under an hour for the 8 of us. We left the ship , buzzed off with the old cards, went down to the facial recognition, it scanned us with an agent nearby for just in case purposes, we waited on the other 6 and when completed we all went back on board. There was no consecutive cruiser lunch offered on Freedom but there was only 8 of us. our other 2 on Oasis Class ships had them offered but there were 20+ guests doing it back then. Hope this helps out some.

A Instagram account I follow about cruising based from Miami had a video of us yesterday.

Port of Nassau webcam has us second coming in, and marine traffic confirms it. I use The Weather Network Miami for radar for Nassau. Nassau doesn’t have one I can find easily.