Bahama Mama

Prepare yourselves. You might want to run to the bathroom and grab a snack before forging ahead. Don't worry, we'll wait.

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Ok, ready? Onward!


Me plus a zebra shark. Which actually looks a lot more like a leopard than a zebra. I was a little nervous about falling backward into the tank and getting eaten by him and his shovelhead shark tankmates.

One of our ray friends. They had two this time (8 years ago they only had one, but he was a lot bigger). They were 6 and 7 feet across, which is still pretty freaking impressive.

My family has a thing for puffers. If this guy wasn't a tankmate of the zebra shark Nikki and I may have jumped in for a quick cuddle.

This building housed a bunch of fun water slides.

After the rays got fed one of them kept coming up and doing back flips. I think he was trying to figure out if Wes was edible.

We want this yacht.

Photographer Aaron at the Queen's staircase



Family Christmas card picture! Note Wes trying to get his foot into the sand. Turns out he loves sand and dirt and it's possible that some ingested sand led to this little incident.

Nikki was too nervous that I might actually do it to get close enough to the edge to make this photo look convincing.

I am so in love with this picture. Wes and Grandpa Steve are best buds.

This is the straw market in Nassau. It was a little overwhelming.

Aaron took this from the plane window as we flew in to Nassau.

I'm so glad Wes wasn't mobile for this trip. I would have spent the entire time fishing him out of bodies of water.


I went down this slide (that's not me though). The tube goes through a shark tank.

One of the sharks in the aforementioned tank.

Wes and grandma playing in the water.

Me, dad, Jared and Mom at The Dig.

Here fishy fishy fishy

Grouper, anyone? We put me in there for size comparison but it didn't quite work. That fish is a lot bigger than it looks.

Looking over the ruins lagoon

Wes modeling his US Airways hat (thanks Grandma!).

I wasn't kidding when I said he was naked most of the time.

More naked. And Grandpa.

From our day in town.

Wes and Grandma in Nassau

Jared gets a little bored of all the photography.

Parking lot attendants who let Aaron take their picture.

Our un-asked for guide at the Queen's Staircase. He rambled off the entire history of the Bahamas in like 5 minutes.

Jared at the Queen's Staircase

Seesters

Wes was annoyed because we were all ignoring him so we could take pictures of the sunset



Peterson women

More Grandpa and Wes (my dad is pretty much the reason this trip was a real break for me)

Nikki and Sam

I'm not as fun as Grandpa, but I do in a pinch.

Aaron and Wes

Family photo!

Smoochy smoochy

Watching the sunset

Also watching the sunset

Wes hanging out at the entrance of the uber swanky Cove

I want to live there

One of the pools

And another sunset

The lazy river was intense. It had big old waves, rapids, slides..all kinds of fun. We went multiple times a day.

The side of the building with the slides

Going up the conveyor belt to the slides (Jared got camera shy)

The view from the conveyor belt

Another pool

Wes rocking a sunscreen faux hawk.

Trying to mooch some of Grandma's diet Coke

Aww, siblings

Aaron going down the shark slide. See that ominous looking silhouette in the water on the bottom right? Shark.

Feeding the sharks

My hammer head friend! He was like 7 feet long and his head was almost as wide as my arm is long. It was nuts.

The bridge over hammer head infested waters (ok there were 2. But they looked hungry!!)

Grandma showing Wes the barracudas and sharks in Predator Lagoon


There are a handful more somewhere that haven't made it into any of the online albums, but I think you get the idea. And if you're really a glutton for punishment and want to see MORE (yes, there are MORE. We had like 4 cameras with us and twitchy shutter fingers), you can head to Aaron, my dad, or Sam's online albums.