Bahamas 2012

Dallas and I have returned from a week in paradise! It was the most splendid week! I thought I would be miserable without the kids. Thankfully, I had an e-mail to read every morning about their day and their excitement for the trip made me able to relax and enjoy every minute.

We went to the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island. It was absolutely perfect! The resort is so extravagant and the weather was 80's every day (minus one cloudy morning).

Part of the resort was waterpark. There were body slides, tube slides, a lazy river, and a raging river. We would go from laying on the beach, down a couple slides, back to relaxing, walking on the beach, look for shells, down a few slides, lay on the beach, repeat. We never left the resort. It was pure bliss.

So nice to reconnect and spend time, giving our undivided attention, to each other:

The marina. The yachts here were just incredible. One yacht was 60 million dollars! And by the end of the week an even bigger one had come in.
This night we met Jimmy John. Yes, as in Jimmy John's sandwiches! We had breakfast with him the next morning, met his family, had good conversation, and received an invite to come visit him! It was really neat.
He was renting a yacht for $250,000 a week. Plus the $17,000 it costs to rent the slip to park the yacht. That gives you an idea of these boats/people. I can't even fathom it!

The boys body surfing. One of the highlights of the trip for Dallas:

We met up with our great friends, Jon and Dana, there. We had so much fun together!
We jived really well, enjoyed a lot of the same things, yet were able to ask for time apart too.
We hope to do more traveling together in the future!

There are aquariums, lagoons, fish, etc. everywhere. This photo is of us in "the Dig." This is the lost city of Atlantis. It is under ground. Reading the history and seeing the incredible underwater life was very cool:

View of the resort and ocean from Jon and Dana's room.
Absolutely beautiful:

Enjoying lunch in the marina:

Supper family style at a restaurant called Carmine's. It was delicious! We spent almost every evening sitting by the water playing cards together. It was a blast:

The gorgeous beach and water:

Gotta have the sand in the toes photo:

Dallas and I did the dolphin interaction. We touched, hugged, kissed a dolphin. Jon has more photos of this. We learned a lot and it was a fun experience:

On a breakfast date with my stud:

This photo is taken on our balcony. See the palm trees and ocean behind?
Yes, it was heavenly!

It was a fabulous week. Different from our honeymoon in that we now have kids and responsibilities. Our honeymoon week we didn't carry a worry in the world! However, all the more reason we enjoyed this getaway.

The kids did wonderful. They seemed to have no problems, and told us this morning we can go on a vacation again (gee thanks). They must have had a grand time themselves!

We surprised them Sunday morning, and we were all happy to be together again!