Nassau and Palo

Our first full day started with room service breakfast, since we had an early couples massage scheduled at the Vista spa, and needed to get the girls fed and off to the kids club. (They had a great time- when I picked them up, they were in the Animator's Palette being taught by an illustrator how to draw Mickey Mouse). Massage was wonderful, but between changing, and getting ready in the massage suite, the actual massage, talking with the therapists afterwards, and getting showered and dressed, our 50 minute massage turned into an hour and a half, so we got a later start on our Nassau day than planned. Original plan had been to go out, walk to the Pirate Museum (which we did- very creepy and very cool), the Christ Church Cathedral (where I went, while Andrew and the girls browsed the museum gift shop)- it was gorgeous. Then back to the ship for lunch (which we also did- Beach Blanket buffet- lots of yummy stuff).

In the afternoon, though, we'd planned on taking a taxi to the gardens/zoo, where they have a trained flamingo show. We realized that we'd miss the show...and were feeling a bit tired from our walking in the morning, and decided to skip it (we'd heard mixed reviews anyway). Instead, we went swimming (and spent lots of time in the hot tub- the girls are big fans...me too!), until we were rained out. At that point....I think we just went back to the room and relaxed until time to change for dinner...which was one of the high points of the trip.

We had reservations for two at Palo, the adults only restaurant. This was our anniversary dinner (just a little late, but hey...who cares). The kids went to the kids club, where they got dinner from Beach Blanket Buffet (again...but this time it was open only for them) and spent the evening making flubber- which they loved!

Palo was wonderful. Our server was Michael from the Phillipines, and he was great- he took the picture of us, after admiring my camera (the rainbow picture is the Atlantis resort in Nassau, taken from the window by our table). He then brought us bread, with several dipping sauces and an antipasto plate- prosciutto, bresaolo (which is a cured, dryed beef, thinly sliced), parmesan cubes, and olives. Since Andrew doesn't eat beef or pork, I really scored on that one (Yum! Ate more than I meant to of that!). He got all the olives though.

Then we got our appetizers. Andrew had a field greens salad, and Melanzane al Funghetto (which is a sauteed eggplant, with Balsamic, and garlic...it actually came with a small field greens salad on top of it, so he had lots of salad! ;) ). I had their version of Capresse salad- yum! Before out main course, came they brought out a lemon sorbet to cleanse the palate- so tasty! Then we each had pasta- Andrew had lobster and mascarpone ravioli, and I had Penne Arrabiata (it came with a spoon marked "pasta" on the handle...I had to figure out what to do with it!! :) ).

On the way to the restaurant we'd run into our cabin steward who advised us to make sure to try the chocolate souffle (and Michael recommended it as well), so I ordered that, and Andrew got the Chocolate Amaretto Indulgence so we could split. We had espresso after that and they brought us a complimentary limoncello to end the meal. Once again- yum!

After that, it was time to pick the kids up for the evening show- this time it was Toy Story the Musical. It was fun going to a show...but this one didn't really add much to the story, and would be one I'd probably skip if we went again. Then back to the room, and another towel animal :)