So I arrived in the Bahamas yesterday. It definitely started out interesting. We flew into Atlanta and while waiting for our flight to board ran into YelloSub86 and his roomates who missed their flight earlier and were flying stand by. They ended up getting on the flight with us so it all worked out. When we landed I thought about asking them if they wanted to share a cab to the atlantis but decided if our bags came up right away I wanted to try and beat the crowd and didn't want to hold them up if we were delayed. Our bags came out right away and we headed out towards the cabs. 

While we were throwing our bags in the cab here came Sub and his roommates and they asked if we wanted to share the cab. Sure, why not? Then the taxi stand guy started throwing a fit saying we had to take separate cabs bc strangers sharing cabs to save money would obv take away from their economy. This starts a fight between the driver and taxi stand guy bc the driver picks up on the fact that we obv know each other and didn't just meet on the flight. So we all hop in the cab...all good.

Well...not exactly. We get half way to the Atlantis and are stopped at a red light when our cab is rear ended at like 30 MPH. We were all like "WTF just happened????" The cabbie got out, spoke to the woman who hit us, made sure his trunk still opened, exchanged info with her and we went on our way. Never once did he ask any of us if we were O.K. LOL! If this was in the U.S. we probably would have gone to the hospital just to make sure we were all O.K. and it possibly would have been a lawsuit against the lady. SHRUG.

So check-in was super smooth, maybe took like ten minutes which was alot quicker then my past 2 experiences here. We ended up taking a little nap then meeting my friend Dan (Wretchy online.. know sick brag of hanging out with a legend) and his girlfriend Audrey downstairs and heading off to the Pokerstars welcome party. To me the sickest part of this trip is getting together with all the players that you have played with online poker over the past year. Each year there are more and more faces to put to the screen names that show up on your laptop while pokering it up from home. 

As the party was ending, we noticed 2 nicely dressed black gentleman just sitting in the middle of this once packed party. They looked to be football players and what do ya know it turned out to be Chris Samuels and Jason Campbell of the Washington Redskins. About a dozen of us went up to them and ended up shootin the shit with them for a good half hour...they were really cool guys. The funny thing was Chris asked if mkind (a not so well liked online player) and Agame (another online friend of mine) were brothers LOOOOL (sorry Agame I told you I was gonna blog about it.) We all had a good laugh. 

Today we woke up about 11 and headed to brunch with Dan and Audrey then hit the pool. Klaudia didn't feel like going in the water at all so she just tanned while the 3 of us hit the pool and water slides. We ended up meeting up with Adam Levy and his brother and hanging with them all afternoon too. We then came back and grabbed a few drinks in the Coral Lobby with some other online players before getting ready for dinner at Nobu in a half hour.

Playing the poker tournament tomorrow, my goal once again is to make it past day ! for the 1st time in three tries. One (more) time run goooooooooooooooooood please.

Kevin