Hit Me Baby, One More Time
Back to Abaco we go....TWICE!
01.07.2018 - 31.07.2018
I have been SUCH A SLACKER lately! I am going to attempt to get caught up on some trip reports from summer and fall but I have just been so lazy lately!
This will be a very non-trip report blog post. Why? We go to Abaco so much that a "trip report" seems stupid at this point. Right? So, I'm just going to share some funny stuff and some photos and call it a day.
We ended up making 2 trips to Guana Cay in July. One was planned, the other was very last minute.
We scooted down unexpectedly in early July to look at a big sister for Bikini Hut. We love our little Guana cottage, but we love it so much, we've outgrown it! We really needed a second bedroom and Matt was itching for a dock. We had an opportunity to take a look at something, so we ran down with less than a weeks notice.
We hadn't planned to go for the 4th of July this past summer. We had totally sworn off the most crowded week of the year, filled with crazed millennials wearing trucker hats bearing the logo of Daddy's yacht; families with 17 children jockeying for position to see the fireworks; and every yahoo with a boat or jet ski that believed they could make it from Florida. Yet somehow we founds ourselves right down there in the middle of it, sweating in the impossible July heat and dodging the hordes of golf carts that uncharacteristically filled Guana's streets.
We spent a few great days eating our body weight in Bahamian mac n'cheese, visiting our Guana friends, and buying Bikini Hut a big sister.
We founds ourselves back down at the end of July for my birthday - the 10 year anniversary of my ill fated 38th birthday debacle on Guana that ended with one very bruised friend. I'm happy to report that we are older (I'm not sure about wiser) and managed a low key birthday where no one ended up with a black eye.
My favorite moments from the summer trips:
Thinking we were surprising our friends by showing up at their July 4th bonfire unannounced and dressed like creepy clowns only to find out they already knew and we were just two imbeciles in hot latex masks:
Seeing the ACTUAL Bam Bam at Nippers.
Spending my birthday on Guana and not ending up like this:
But instead like this:
Seeing this:
Finding out a good friend has surprised me with a new Bikini Hut sign:
Discovering that there is something even scarier than my childhood Jack in the Box:
Being in the Bahamas for the opening day of lobster season:
Discovering that each time my friends stay at Bikini Hut, they appear to have a compulsion to buy giant jars of peanut butter and leave them behind:
Realizing that I don't only love this place, I love these people:
To wrap it up, here are some favorite photos from the July trips:
Up next: FINALLY......Our return to the Greek Islands! Wait for it!
Posted by vicki_h 10:05 Archived in Bahamas Tagged islands tropical bahamas nippers abaco elbow_cay guana_cay grabbers marsh_harbour lubbers_landing
Vicki, have been following you for so long and just checked in to see if you have been to Greece yet. No news except so happy for the big sister on Guana! Looking forward to your beautiful pictures soon! Happy travels, Angele
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