Bahamas Day 4

We got up this morning, grabbed our hammocks and slack line and headed back to our palm trees. At this point, Sam and I have finished two books each and gotten some sun. We lazed around, all day. All. Day.

I finished a book, got up to check on Sam who was passed out asleep in her hammock. I went for a swim and while in the ocean I saw a sting ray jump out, try to fly and fall back in, then jump out and do it again! It was pretty cool. Animal wise, we have seen crabs roaming free, the biggest butterfly ever, all the misquotes (we have been eaten alive at this point) and now this sting ray. 

And that’s pretty much it. All we did, all day. 

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At night we decided to go to back to Lucaya Marketplace for dinner and drinks. All those restaurants and bars I mentioned before? We saw one we wanted to try and we had also heard that a place to go to is a place called Rum Runners. We get to the port, wanting to eat at a bar we remembered from two days ago. We get to the bar and sure enough, it is Rum Runners. We decide not to eat there (intending to go there later) and eat at a place next door called Kalypto. We ordered a drink called the Relaxer and ordered food. Again, we waited… forever to get food. But the time food had arrived, the entire bar around us was packed with more people from the Navy ship in port. So many people. This bar had two bartenders and probably 30-40 people trying to get drinks. Sam and I were sitting at the bar and these guys around us were all having a hard time ordering. Literally, I think it’s just because they were young and inexperienced? One guy was like “I said Hi to her twice though” 

….there are a ton of people here right now trying to get drinks. Don’t say Hi, order dude! We helped some of them out by ordering for them. 

Finally, it started to die down a bit and Sam and I were finishing up our food, who walks and sits next to us? Jacob. Alabama. Don. Ani. All the guys from the fish fry. It was fun to know people again and talk. Everyone ordered drinks and hung out talking and laughing. This Alabama kid, just making Sam and I laugh. He’s a young kid having a good time, being funny. It was entertaining to watch them all interact with each other. 

At some point, I decide to go to the bathroom. When I come back I hear and see whispering among all of these guys. I hear Alabama with his back to me say, “no no, she’s lost it” and Jacob responds with “I hate when she does that” and looks up at me and next thing I know, Alabama (Connor) turns around and leans towards me like he’s holding a mic and starts singing “You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips” followed with Jacob and his microphone “and there’s no tenderness before in your fingertips” and I know exactly what is happening. In sync and growing louder, “she’s trying hard not to show it, but baby, baby I know it” and then whole little group of sailors start singing loud and together in this bar, people looking good, “you’ve lost that loving feeling, whoaoa that loving feeling, bring back that loving feeling cause gone gone gone… whoaoh- oh-ou-oh ba-dum, ba-dum” and y’all know the rest.

That one scene in Top Gun with Goose and Mav ? Yeah. That happened last night. In real life. Except they weren’t in their summer whites and didn’t have real microphones. 

It was absolutely hilarious and adorable. Sitting next to them, a little befuddled, Sam looks at me and said, “I have no idea what is going on” I laughed and got red as they sang and said, “oh, I sure do. It’s Top Gun. This is a movie.” And just let them finish. 

So that was fun. We ended up staying at Kalypso the entire time before catching a cab and heading home.

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