{"id":806,"date":"2010-09-27T17:58:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T21:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=806"},"modified":"2010-09-27T17:58:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T21:58:28","slug":"day-three-i-will-never-forget-nassau-a-most-educational-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/27\/day-three-i-will-never-forget-nassau-a-most-educational-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Three: I Will Never Forget Nassau, A Most Educational City"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were able to sit in the bow of the ship eating lunch while The Enchantment of the Seas docked at Nassau.\u00a0 It was awesome to watch.\u00a0 There’s a dock that can take about four cruise ships. To give you a general idea, a cruise ship that is full has about 2,500-3,000 passengers.\u00a0 The port area of Nassau really isn’t that large, so you can do the math in terms of the activity around the port.<\/p>\n

\"CIMG0023\"<\/a>We decided that we couldn’t miss the opportunity to go snorkeling.\u00a0\u00a0It\u00a0was great.\u00a0 We sailed out on a catamaran out to a reef and played with the fishies for about an hour — seeing the most amazing variety of tropical fish and coral reef with brain coral, delicately-colored blue, or zebra fish (among MANY others) and enjoying the tropical sea.\u00a0 We sailed back drinking rum punch, though \u00a0and I limited ourselves to a cup each even though considerably more was being urged on us.\u00a0 Oh we were being sooo smart, weren’t we?<\/p>\n

Yeah, right.<\/p>\n

I was 15\u00a0the last time I’d\u00a0been in the Caribbean, and had\u00a0been with my parents who are pretty experienced travelers.\u00a0 So, while I knew that people who\u00a0make their living from tourists\u00a0can be pretty aggressive salesmen, I’d forgotten how much so!<\/p>\n

After we got off the\u00a0catamaran, we wandered briefly around an open air market.\u00a0 I wanted to buy a sarong, and did, from a woman who gave me $5 off because I was such a sexy lady <snerk>.\u00a0 Yes, I probably could have bargained her down, but\u00a0considered the price I paid plenty fair for a sarong.<\/p>\n

Then this woman wandering around the market came right up to and put a necklace around my neck and said, “Now you a Bahama\u00a0Mama, honey.” then turned to , putting another necklace around his neck, pronouncing him a Bahama Papa.\u00a0 She asked for\u00a0a donation “for the children” for the necklaces.\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah, we’re suckers.\u00a0 We gave her a ten spot.<\/p>\n

Did that put us on our guard enough?<\/p>\n

Hell no!<\/p>\n

\"CIMG0027\"<\/a>I got a lot of offers to get\u00a0my hair braided.\u00a0 Now, I’ve always rather wanted to try some of the more elaborate cornrow styles and figured this was a good chance to do so.\u00a0 So I\u00a0asked how much it would cost,\u00a0and the woman charged $7.00 a braid.\u00a0 I don’t even\u00a0go to the beauty\u00a0salon to get my hair colored, so I don’t know how much\u00a0this type\u00a0of thing is worth in real life, mind you, nor did I realize how MANY braids my hip-length and very thick hair would take.\u00a0\u00a0 I was figuring she’d do maybe ten or twelve cornrows, not a series of microbraids in the back and cornrows in the front.<\/p>\n

I have nearly fifty braids in my hair.\u00a0 Yes, I have a hairstyle that I paid over $300 for.\u00a0 I could have argued, but I didn’t.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 I haven’t the faintest idea what the going\u00a0rate really is, and I didn’t want to cheat her out of pique.\u00a0 However, it took her about two hours to do it, and I’m not really sure that most hairdressers charge $150\/hr to work in an open-air market.<\/p>\n

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\"20100923110129\"<\/a>That said,\u00a0she did a great\u00a0job on the\u00a0hairstyle.\u00a0 It looks good and is damned convenient for a cruise, especially the wind.\u00a0 In fact, if I find out this is really cheaper to get done in Stateside hair salons, I’ll probably get it done like this again for cruises and\/or beach trips.<\/p>\n

I had tilapo for dinner on a bed of Japanese ratatouille (meaning they put ginger in it.\u00a0 Yes, it was delicious).<\/p>\n

After dinner we went to a show with movie themed music and dancing.\u00a0 The concept was goofy but damn the performers were outstanding.\u00a0 The female singers especially had some pipes, <\/em>let me tell you what!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were able to sit in the bow of the ship eating lunch while The Enchantment of the Seas docked at Nassau.\u00a0 It was awesome to watch.\u00a0 There’s a dock that can take about four cruise ships. To give you a general idea, a cruise ship that is full has about 2,500-3,000 passengers.\u00a0 The port … <\/p>\n

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