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Chapter 4: Nassau or How to Sleep through a Tour

We had booked a shore excursion at 10:00 the next morning for a tour of New Providence and an admission to the pirate museum. The crap at Atlantis was just too damn expensive. $170 for five hours at their water park, for example.

Any way, we got up. We were at the appointed waiting place before 10:00. Some of the people on the cruise, particularly those from the north east, mostly from states on the Atlantic, that begin with the word "New", had no appreciation for Bahamian Time. So at around 10:15, a Bahamian gentlemen showed up, told us that he was going to give a few more minutes for everyone to show up (the last person had shown up at 9:55), and disappeared for another 20 minutes.

We were loaded onto cabs, which were Toyota vans with the driver in front of the front wheels. We were dropped off at the Queen's Staircase and one of the forts. The next 1.5 hours we were driven around. Once every 5-10 minutes, the cab driver would point and say: "there be Parliament" or "there be da football pitch". No other detail. I fell asleep.

The pirate museum was air conditioned, which at first was it's best attribute. The first 2-3 exhibits seemed to be written by a ten year old boy who learned everything he knew about pirates by watching the Disney movies. It actually got much better and much more informative as it went on, including extensive information on Edward Teach and Woodes Rogers.

The Piano Bar was closed that night, so we headed up to the pool deck to drink at one of those bars. As it turns out, so did everyone else from the piano bar, including Dave, the piano guy. I decided to drink Long Islands that night...