I'm the worst blogger ever

Seriously! I haven't updated since October...that is dumb. My early New Year's resolution is to blog more often.

Anyway, since I last posted, Shawn and I went on a freaking great vacation to The Atlantis in the Bahamas. It was SO MUCH FUN, we totally didn't want to come home. For your viewing pleasure, here is a video (complete with music haha) of some of our favorite pics from our vacation (also some videos within the slideshow, like of us going down the Leap of Faith Mayan Temple slide, which is scary as all hell).



Obviously, we had a great time. I would highly recommend a trip to The Atlantis...there is seriously something there for everyone. There's something to see and do around every corner, lots of places to explore, and if you plan it right, I really don't think it's that much more expensive than any other tropical vacation. All that being said, here are a few tips we would give to anyone planning a trip down there:

1. When they tell you to make restaurant reservations before you get there, they're not kidding. I didn't listen, and had trouble trying to get into a couple of the restaurants (like Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill, at which we ate at the bar because the whole place was booked up for three days. No big deal, it was still awesome, but maybe would have been more awesome if we'd been able to get a table.)

2. The food is great, but pretty expensive. We didn't end up with $827568276 in credit card debt when we got home, only because we specifically decided NOT to charge any of our dinners to the room. We either paid cash or used a debit card. We also were real careful while sitting by the pool ordering daiquiris...that is where they get you.

3. We found the best deals for food were at the following two restaurants: Murray's Deli (which also has the best potato salad I have ever had, bar none) and Carmine's (family style Italian restaurant. We ordered a salad and one entree and it was DEFINITELY enough food for two people...the portions are gigantic.)

4. The Atlantis meal plans seem to be a waste of money for two people. The meal plans only cover breakfast and dinner (and don't cover alcohol at all), and since we knew there was very little chance we'd ever be up in time for breakfast the whole week we were there, we skipped the meal plan and we were glad we did. We had coffee and Nutri-Grain bars in the room every morning, and just had lunch and dinner every day.

5. When going on the waterslides that require inner tubes, keep your butt up as much as possible. I got a gigantic bruise on one of the slides & couldn't sit for two days.

So all in all, get yourself down there if you can. It was one of the best vacations I've ever been on (and I'd been there before). Frigging awesome!