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Trip Start Oct 20, 2008

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El Greco Hotel Nassau

Flag of Bahamas Nassau, New Providence Island, Bahamas
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

For New Year's Eve, we went to the Bahamas! Here are some highlights:

1. Staying up all night on New Year's Eve, observing the Junkanoo parade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkanoo), walking around the streets of Nassau

2. Laying about at the beach, playing Bananagrams and reading

3. Eating quite good Thai food & Indian food

4. Sampling rum cakes

5. Accidentally exploding bottles of water while dropping them on the floors of supermarkets

6

Nassau mermaid

. Trekking from our hotel to downtown Nassau, back to our hotel, back to downtown, back to our hotel, back to downtown...

7. Climbing up the wall of our wrought iron fence of balcony, just for fun

8. Sleeping from 7 am - 2 pm on New Year's Day

9. Exploring the beautiful mansion Graycliff Inn

10. Ringing in the new year and celebrating love in 2010!

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Thai food	Bahamian Christmas tree	Our hotel	Our hotel
But only a 16 year old--not older, not younger. Comments!	Junkanoo beach	Junkanoo beach	Junkanoo beach
Bananagrams on Beach	Sit, I tell you!	Stay.	Quixotic?
Our hotel	2010 will be good to us	Kalik Bahamian beer	At midnight on New Year's Eve!
Climbing the walls...	Happy New Year	Junkanoo parade	Celebrating in Graycliff!
I love Graycliff's pool	Junkanoo all-night parade	Junkanoo all-night parade	Junkanoo all-night parade
Getting into costume	Junkanoo all-night parade	Junkanoo all-night parade	The moon at 5:00am
Sun slowly coming up: we sit on pier & eat donuts	Up all night to ring in 2010.