An Early Easter Celebration; a Car Rental; No Luck for Us

We moved our Easter celebrations ahead by a day as Sally had an early morning flight back to NYC. We improvised an Easter basket using a plastic salad container for the basket and Harry’s green towel for the grass, Katie had brought some Jelly Belly jellybeans when she came down in March for this purpose (thanks Katie) which miraculously escaped consumption for the past four weeks, and I picked up some chocolate bunnies. After a big breakfast of eggs and pre-cooked bacon, Harry and Jack picked up a rental car from the airport we’d agree to share use of the next 48 hours. The interesting thing about driving in the Bahamas is they permit both English and American made cars on the road, but everyone drives on the left as is done in England. We’d got an American car from the rental outfit so it made driving on the left challenging as the driver’s wheel was on the left as well.  Anyway, the weather was overcast and very breezy out of the NW as forecast so we headed to Clifton Park for a picnic lunch and a walk along the shore returning to Juno around 3 pm. We passed on rum o’clock today and had an early dinner (Easter pizzas) then went to the Baha Mar casino - a 15 minute drive away on the north side of the island. Baha Mar was lush, green and well landscaped in contrast to the rocky and dry terrain we were used to seeing and it had water fountains going in sync to music. As the sky grew dark, the fountains were illuminated and one fountain even had fire coming out of it. The look was almost like Disneyland.  At the casino, we each had a drink, played the slot machines by waging 8 cents a spin for about 20 minutes until we lost $5, and then drove home.

The Easter Bunny found us in Nassau