Nassau, Bahama: Cruise Day 3

That morning, we were up early enough to watch the cruise ship sail into Nassau.  Here's a lighthouse we saw on the way in.

We started our excursion in Nassau by heading out to Rainbow Reef to go snorkeling.  Here is a pic of us on the ride out.

Our snorkeling gear:

When Jeremy first tried his mask on, it was way too tight.  You can see how it folded his face in this pic:

The actual snorkeling experience wasn't the best I had done, and since it was Jeremy's first time, that wasn't good.  The waved were pretty choppy, so we kept getting salt water in our mouth and it was hard to adjust our gear.  Jeremy ended up getting on the boat after about 20 min.  I stayed a little longer, but felt odd snorkeling without a buddy.  Since it was a cold and windy day, everyone was done snorkeling before our allotted hour was up.

Here are some pics of us heading back to Nassau.

We got back on our cruise ship, showered, and then headed back to Nassau for some shopping.

We started at the straw market, but Jeremy and I quickly became overwhelmed by all the extremely pushy salesmen.  So he and I headed to go visit some of the more upscale shops.  A few of them had some free stuff, which is where I got my favorite souvenir of the trip: a sea turtle necklace.

Jeremy was pretty picky with his souvenirs.  He seemed to not see very much stuff with good typography on it.  He ended up getting just a T-Shirt in Nassau.  But he was able to spot the Bahama Logo he'd studied.

Here we are right before we got back on the ship.  It was so windy that my hair wouldn't stay out of my face long enough get a picture.

We decided to switch where we ate dinner that night.  The previous two nights we ate The Crossings dining room.  But since we were always in there for over 2 hours, we switched and ate our last two dinners at The Palace.