BAHAMAS...The Ship...And we sail away tomorrow!!

Sooo...we are pulling away from the dock in 19 hours! So much has happened in the last few days, it seems like it's been a week! We left on Thursday night at midnight and drove to Chicago (almost dying along the way because of snow and huge semi-trucks who can't drive at 3 am). We made it to our 5:55 am flight and sat on the runway for an hour and a half before we realized that we officially missed our connecting flight in Cincinatti. So, we got off, and made our way to a flight to Atlanta. After waiting (and sleeping on the floor) for two hours, we finally got on a flight and got to Atlanta at 3 pm. Then we flew standby to Nassau and found out that all of our bags were lost and they had no idea where they were. So we went to the hotel, fell asleep for the first time in almost 2 days, and waited for everything we brought to get there. Thankfully it did the next day, but Delta will get a strong-worded letter from all of us (and the 8 other SASers on our flight who ALSO got rerouted and lost their bags!!). 

Anyway, after all of that, we finally got to relax in the lovely, warm, wonderful Bahamas. Kate and I walked around, did nothing, met some other SASers, and tried some new foods (and drinks)! Today, we got to get on the ship!!!!!!! It was amazing. The ship is beautiful and huge and so much better in person! We got our room...4054...AND found out that we don't have to have a 3rd person in our room because they cancelled, but we STILL get the $5,000 each back! We are sooo excited! Our room is on the 4th deck, so we have a huge window which has a GORGEOUS view of the Atlantis, water, and beaches! I'm getting off track.... after getting on, we had a meeting with all of the other work study students, and ate lunch with our bosses on the 5th deck overlooking the harbor. We both love our bosses! Not as good as Jen Weed or Chelsea of course (see the sucking up going on). haha. 

After settling in, it was time to get ready for the 550 parents that were coming on the ship, so we went to our assigned posts and guided the parents to the reception. We even got to show Mom, Dad, and Kathy our room which was really fun! After the reception, we unpacked and went out to dinner with our dad, Kathy, and two people they met at the airport, Anne and her daughter, Rachel, who's also going on SAS. We had a great time, and now we're going to sleep...we have to be on the ship tomorrow at 7:30 am to help with all the other students checking in (700 college students boarding in 4 hours...should be very interesting!). 

We still can't believe we're here. It was beyond surreal to step on the ship and see everything in person. We've been looking at so many pictures and videos that it seems like we're in a dream. I really don't think it'll hit us until we pull away tomorrow. We're nervous, anxious, EXCITED, and ready to get this trip started!

So that's all for now. We'll post again and send out an e-mail after we set sail and are on our way to Spain!! Miss you all already!