Eric and I have this thing...we joke about things we need to do/see in the next decade. When we first started dating, I told him I needed to do three things before I got married: 1. Visit a foreign country on vacation, 2. Swim in the ocean (any ocean), and 3. See Disney World and/or Disney Land.
So, when Eric's Aunt turned 50, she took everyone on a Disney Cruise. We went down to Disney World the day before the cruise left, thus checking off #3 of my list. The last day of the cruise, we visited Disney's private island. (Side note: If you get the chance - GO THERE GO THERE GO THERE YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU ARE MISSING GO THERE!) On Disney's Private Island, I got to swim in the Atlantic Ocean, thus checking off #2 of my list.
In between Disney World and Disney Super-Awesome-Fantastic-Island, there was Nassau. We went to Nassau, and thus, checking off #1 of my list. But Nassau, unlike Disney Island Paradise, was absolutely horrible.
We met up with another couple from the ship, and figured that there was safety in numbers, and off the boat and into the port of Nassau we went.
Three steps off the boat - someone offered us Cuban Cigars. Awesome, we thought, but no thanks.
Five steps off of the boat - someone offered us cocaine. Not so awesome, we thought, no thanks, and we started walking quicker.
Ten steps off of the boat - someone offered us horse meat. Don't act like I didn't shove that in my gullet as fast as I could. But that isn't what this story is about.
Half an hour off of the boat - the husband of the couple we were with gets mugged/pick-pocketed. Eric yells as me and the guy's wife to go back to the boat, and they take off after the mugger. They catch up with him, and give him a olde fashioned American beat-down (Dear Canadians: That last sentence right there is why we say we're Canadian when we travel now. Sorry about that.) The Royal Bahamian Police show up, and they immediately side with the tourists, since, well, Nassau's main source of revenue is ...wait for it...tourism! So, as we are walking away from the bru-ha-ha, Eric and the husband are talking, and they realize something: They now have more money than they started out with. They also now have American money AND Bahamian money. So yeah, we hightailed it back to the boat as fast as we could before the police realized that we just mugged the mugger for MORE money than we originally started out with.
So yeah, just to recap - Don't go to Nassau unless it's Paradise Island (also super-awesome-fantasticness), go to Disney's Private Island if you can, Disney World is pretty fricken awesome, and horse meat is pretty fricken tasty when it's served from a cart in the middle of the Bahamas. (I had not learned yet not to eat things from carts, in the event you were wondering.)
Horse meat is bad!! Processing horse is illegal in the U.S.! I had several for pets. And beasts of burden. Sorry. I just hate to think of my short fat pony who was white with brown spots and looked like she was covered in chocolate chips mashed up as horse meat!
ReplyDeleteYeah, the horse meat story disturbs a LOT of people, to be honest.
ReplyDeleteThe Amish use horses as farm implements and they really use them up. Once they're done with them, you have to be quick to rescue them or the outcome isn't to many peoples liking. That's they way they live and that's the way it's been done.
ReplyDeleteSo...what you're telling me is that is need to hightail it to Penn since now I have a taste for horse meat...I wasn't aware that was legal in the US, I always figured I would have to go to France for that...
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure it's not legal. I could be wrong, I've been known to be a time or three. I'll have to google it someday and find out.
ReplyDeleteBecause google is such a reliable source of information..
ReplyDeleteNina - Yeah, I just always thought it WAS illegal.
ReplyDeleteLori - YOU MEAN TO TELL ME I DIDN'T DIE IN A FIRE IN 1947?! Whew...someone needs to tell Google...
you know i never did want to go to disney land. but i'll take your word for it. i'm glad you got to cross three things off your list. I've only crossed 1 at this point - going to italy. but that was a big one.
ReplyDeleteI went on a cruise once and we landed in haiti. um, yea. definately not a place you want to go if you're looking for relaxation as opposed to say, fearing for your life every single moment.
Once my French teacher told us a story:
ReplyDelete"I was in France and staying away from horse meat as much as I could. One day a friend of mine asked me why. I said it was horrible to do that to a poor, pretty horse. What do you want from me? I was 20! I thought pretty meant inedible. Anyway, he said if I had the cafeteria hamburgers, then I've had horse meat."
So, uh, don't eat ground meat.
kosher cruises Disney as far as i know are not available but you can see Europe on a kosher cruise
ReplyDelete...thanks for sharing?
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