Sunday, January 20, 2008

So we made it to the Bahamas...finally

Like I said in my previous blog entry, O'Hare is known for their delays. In fact, we were sitting in the airplane for 2 hours waiting. No bad weather. We even went out to the runway and they soon after decided that something needed to be fixed. We returned to the gate for a "short" hour and bonded with our fellow passengers. Eventually we took off and made it to the Bahamas after dark.

Last night we had dinner at a typical Bahamian restaurant. The meal consisted of cracked conch (type of shellfish similar to calamari), special Bahamian mac and cheese (seemed similar to lasagna), peas 'n rice, and more. Overall it was pretty disappointing. Note to self and future travelers to the Bahamas: always get the fresh catch of the day - don't bother getting any of the other fish on the menu.

We got about 30 minutes, maybe an hour, of sun this morning, but then a storm and winds came in quickly. The Bahamas essentially shuts down on Sundays and not many stores or restaurants are open. So, we pretty much bummed around the hotel and area and cheered on the losing Packers.

Hopefully tomorrow will bring better weather - hoping to go to the Atlantis hotel and downtown one of these days.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

that food really does sound disappointing. someone sounds bitter.

Anonymous said...

could you really watch the packers well to bad bret farve is quiting so now it will take some time for them to get used to Rogers