We're making progress! Just passed Puerto Rico a while ago. We'll arrive in Dominica sometime in the early morning hours and spend two days docked there. I'm signed up to go on a whale and dolphin safari. Watch this space for photos.

It's day two of classes and all seems well. The only major hickup thus far is that someone failed to understand the signs reading "Do not put foreign objects in the toilet." So, a good portion of the ship's plumbing has been under repair (and with the usual odiferous joys that come with that). The Dean has announced a reward for anyone who can guess what the foreign object was.

I spent all of about two hours on land when we were docked in Nassau. Since we had a lot of preparatory meetings underway, it's about all I could spare. I managed to locate a beach and put my feet in the sand. It was surprisingly chilly and windy, so it was no day at the beach. Well, technically, it WAS a partial day at the beach. As I sat perched on a rock, I looked down to see I was welcomed by someone's abandoned band-aid, so I moved on. I spent most of the time walking around looking at a little architecture and seeing the usual touristy shops around the port area. I'll come back to the Bahamas another time, maybe, but for now I've got the world to see!  (Took the photo below outside my window this afternoon.)