Merry Xmas from the Bahamas

Merry Xmas to everyone. We are in the Bahamas aboard the Regal Empress. Now! lets get down to reality the Sensation is NOT, I repeat NOT our ship, it was in a berth next to us. The only way I could make our ship look big was to take this picture from the dock. Notice how many fewer levels we have, but even if size does matter, we had a great time. When we arrived at the terminal we found out that there was NO PARKING for motorhomes. After a bit of looking around Dennis phoned the welcome centre where they had to go and pick up more of the package that they had for Ft Lauderdale and we found out that we could park the motorhome there for the 2 days. The only draw back was the $50 each way for a cab. It sounded bad at first but if we could have parked at the terminal it was going to be about $35 or more for each day. We were on the ship by about 3:00 pm Christmas eve and proceeded to get ourselves oriented with the ship. The food was good and we met a lot of friendly people from all over. Our full day in Nassau was on Christmas day and most of the downtown core was closed. We all decided the best thing that we could do in order to see much was to book a city tour which we did. The Limo seated 6-8 and there were 6 of us in ours which was just right. Our first stop was on Paradise Island where "as the Limo Driver said", the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. We stopped at Atlantis a hotel casino. I can't say much more than WOW!! The rooms start at $300 per night and go up to $25,000 per night. All we did was walk around and look, but don't touch!! Our next stop that was very interesting was the Queens Staircase. It was all carved out of coral rock by 1500 slaves over a period of 16 years in the mid 1700. It is a total of 65 steps, the apparent only reason for them was to get material for building a fort. After the completion of the staircase the queen freed all the slaves. After this last stop the driver took us around to some of the neighborhoods both for the wealthy and also the poor, what a contrast! We were back on board by around 1:00 pm, just in time for lunch. Guess what I found sitting in front of Myrna? DESSERT, and she says she doesn't eat them but isn't a picture worth a thousand words? Each evening there was lots of entertainment and food to be found on the ship. Our Christmas dinner was "you guessed it" TURKEY with all the fixens, you bet that is what we had. There was lots of choices but it just wouldn't have seemed right for us not to have TURKEY.
A BIG MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE from the four of us. HOHOHO!