Friday, March 26, 2010

Goodbye Kingston, Hello Nassau

Greetings from Nassau, Bahamas! We arrived into Nassau around 4am this morning! We are RIGHT in the middle of town in the cruise terminal. As I look out our port hole, I can see a huge cruise ship - Carnival Destiny and the famous Atlantis Hotel! If I look out on the other side of the ship, I can see the British Colonel hotel where my parents honeymooned 40 years ago! Wow, how neat for John and I to have the opportunity to spend two weeks on this special island. But before we go into too much detail about Nassau, first a recap of Kingston.....

We spent February 16 – March 23 in Kingston, Jamaica. We think March was the busiest month we’ve had so far since joining the ship! During our five weeks in Kingston, we had almost 136,000 visitors!! And we broke the record for the number of visitors in one day – 7,138! We also ran 52 programs for school kids (19,000+ kids), had 48 events on board for the public to attend, sent out teams to 53 churches, and sold over 340,000 books (14,000+ of those being Bibles!). Wow, now you can see why we were so busy! The city of Kingston has a population of over 1 million people, so this definitely was our busiest Caribbean port. Praise the Lord!

No comments: