Bahamas 2015 Intro

This is a log of our September 28-October 2 (2015) four-night cruise of the Bahamas on Enchantment of the Seas. We’re a family of 4 on our second cruise, having previously taken a 7 night Western Caribbean cruise on Oasis in June of 2014. My wife and I both agreed after our 2014 trip that a cruise wasn’t the “best” vacation we’d ever taken – it can’t compare to time in some place like Europe, for example, IMO – but it was definitely the most RELAXING trip we’d ever had. 

As a result of our enjoyment of our first cruise foray, we quickly booked our 2nd cruise for Alaska in 2016 (on Radiance) as soon as bookings opened in early 2015. Later, as we looked at our sons’ school schedule we realized that we had a week off school in late September 2015 – and the idea of shoe-horning in a 3rd cruise that week with a “quick” trip sounded like a great fit, so that’s where this trip came from.

As mentioned, we’re a family of four: me and my wife plus our two sons (15 and 10 years old). My wife and I have realized that we have a window of only about 5 years where the boys are both at a great age for more “ambitious” travel and are both still at home, so we’ve been doing some bigger trips the last few years, including a couple of trips to Europe along with cruising. The second trip to Europe was completely unexpected – in December 2014 my brother-in-law received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry so we got to enjoy an impromptu visit to Stockholm to take part in Nobel Week, including attending the awards and white-tie banquet! 

Our cruise left Port Canaveral on Monday afternoon, but we decided to fly into Orlando (from San Jose, CA) on Saturday, giving us a full day to do something on Sunday before boarding the cruise. We asked the boys whether they wanted to go to one of the Universal Studio theme parks or to Kennedy Space Center and the latter was the hands-down winner, so that formed the outline for our plan.

A few words on what follows from here. First, there are waaay more than “a few words” in what follows. Brevity may be the soul of wit, but I confess that I am not brief when writing. If you frequently reply to people with “tl;dr” then this is NOT the recap for you. Second, there won’t be a lot of photos. That’s because a) most of my photos are boring, as I simply don’t have a good “photographer’s eye”, and b) very little of what I have is unique enough to justify the bandwidth. You can find better pictures in other reviews. In fact, we are so lax about taking pictures that we didn’t take a single photo after the 3rd day of our trip! Finally, there are NO food pictures. 

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