vacation.

well, after the most unrelaxing trip i have had in a long time. (for the record i have had business trips far more relaxing than the past 6 days in the bahamas)
let me preface this post with:

I have never disliked any culture before. I have never disliked an entire group of people. I am a polite traveler, we tip extremely heavy, and we are both patient with most things. I give people the benefit of the doubt so much it screws me over and i usually never say anything aside to justin. if you are reading this you probably already know this about me.

so for me to feel this way, it was a horrible experience- I had been to the bahams 7 times before this past trip and always loved it.
I will never go back now.

we planned our vacation, something we save up money for all year, something we hasn't done in over a year together, we get limited time off a year J gets 10 days off, if we had known any of what happened would happen, we would have planned to spend our money else where.


pluses:
hotel: the hotel we spent most of the week was awesome. it was an inn called orange hill inn. it was great. it was clean. the private beach front cottage was amazing, especially for 140 a night. the on site restaurant was ok.

the day trip: sailing in the Caribbean was great. even with 24 other people on the boat. the crew was so much fun. and the rum punch was great. We did not snorkel the reef out there (my fear of masks actually stems from leaky snorkeling experiences- at least my fear of wearing them) but Rose island (small 3 miles long about 100 feet wide) was so nice. we layed on the beach and swam.

the beach at the inn: talk about no one there! it was awesome. it was outside of any hotel district. The snorkeling was great. ( I finally got a mask that fit me NO LEAKS!!!) I saw so many cool fish and some kind of sting ray i think. i am not too sure, it was kinda scary so i swam away from it.

relaxing and laying around with justin was great.

everything was fine except when ever we left the hotel area
- bus 10A is not the bus going back to the hotel from downtown. it was like taking a ghetto fabulous ride through the shacks and ghettos of the bahamas. actually it wasn't like that, it was that. the bus looked like it had been on pimp my ride, and the drove about 50 miles an hour on roads so narrow with the bus door open. the kid driving the bus was just annoying by saying "well aren't you smart" after i stated "i know we got on the wrong bus" the lady in the first row of the bus was nice. she helped us out and gave the kid a dirty look and he drove us to meet up with a 10 (not 10A) bus.

- nassau and paradise island have become the disney of the Caribbean. the last time i was there was about 5 years ago. The Atlantis hadn't put up all the other buildings, there weren't a million people there. there was actually beach space on paradise island that wasn't overtaken. it wasn't on this height of over population. now it is disgusting

- the first night (we flew in early) so we got a run of the mill cheap motel place. check in time wasn't until 4 pm, but we didn't know that. we even request an early check in and we not accommodated. the people who worked there were rude. and dirt. it was ten million times worse than the subway on an 8 am commute when no one in the car has had their coffee.

- most food establishments- it would be 25 minutes the waitress would pass you a million times she would never even stop at the table to give you a menu or anything. this happened nearly ever where we went aside from places that were 35 bucks a plate.

- any time we encountered native people outside of the 2nd hotel, or in some fancy restaurant, they were so rude and anti-american that it was sickening. so i am making it my mission to tell people not to go to the country of the bahams. most people, are all assholes. the few we met that were not were transplants from other islands or ex-pats or former eurpoeans.

- the airport. the TSA agent left me in tears (even with my work badge) my bags were ripped apart at the slowest rate possible (yes btw, it is slow in the islands, it is slow and hot, and i accept this. I have been to PR a bunch, the people not only are they rude they are rude and slow and if for one minute you make notion for the cunt bitches to actually function at the rate of something tolerable and not talk to their friend/coworker while they move at the rate of a sloth they move even slower) are even ruder and give you nasty looks. FUCKING CUNT BITCH SECURITY WOMAN. I have no problem getting my stuff searched, but do it at a rate that will not cause me to miss my plane, and do it with some neatness. She was digging the super neatly packed bag (the neurotically- zuni can testify i have some really neurotic tendencies) that wouldn't close when at all when she was done packing it. She then stuffed everything back inside, attempted to zip is at yelled at me when i asked to organize the stuff and zip it myself, which then caused her to decide to re-search my bag.
This resulting in tears since i knew if that bag went through baggage like that the bag would break because it was so poorly stuffed and zipped. FUCKING RUDE CUNT.

THE BAHAMAS SUCKS DO NOT GO THERE UNLESS YOU GO TO AN OUT ISLAND or do not plan on leaving your resort or going through 5 security checkpoints at the hotel i think if you take a cruise in on a day trip you would enjoy it. the airport was the worst i had ever been at (I spend a lot of time in airports...) it took over an hour to get through after we checked in- and it was not busy when we were there. we walked through 3 seperate machines in 3 different areas. and the people who worked there yelled at everyone. I couldnt wait to get on the plane. Thank god the inflight person was able to move us around so we could sit next to one another. the flight home was awesome. and neither one of us could wait to land.

We are concerned about our next planned trip around thanksgiving to aruba and already started reading about it.
I travel to a lot of places with out J and with friends from work - so it makes me sad if he and i do not have the bestest time possible together when we go away since i know we will not go away together for awhile.


as a plus, i still have 62 hours of time off to use with a rate of earning at 16 hours a month :)
a long weekend vising my family in ohio
a long weekend to Cali to go to a spa with my friend winter
a visit to Jenny in Seattle
and aruba to look forward to
and a trip to cancun to start planning for next summer