Out to Dinner

By Erica Mauro | April 13, 2025 |
Mom and Mikey sitting in a booth at the 50's themed diner in Atlantis, Bahamas

The photo above was taken at a diner on the Atlantis property.  This was a perfect fit for Mikey, but the menu was a bit limited for the rest of the crowd.  My favorite dinner experience on our Atlantis vacation was the giant buffet.  There was something for everyone to eat and the pace was quicker than you…

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Serpent Slide

By Erica Mauro | April 12, 2025 |
mayan temple waterslide, Atlantis Bahamas. Pyramid shaped building with a giant waterslide down the side that ends in a tunnel through a shark tank.

I should clarify…the slide you see on the front of this picture is called the Leap of Faith.  Neither Michael nor I participated in this heart-stopping slide.  It wasn’t safe for Mikey because I couldn’t be sure that he would stay laying straight with his arms crossed for the whole time.  It was perfectly safe for me, but…

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Back to Atlantis

By Erica Mauro | April 10, 2025 |
handwritten and highlighted: Atlantis! photo of mikey in an inner tube, Dave and mikey walking on a wooden bridge with rope railings, our family posing with a sea lion, will and mikey posing in their swim trunks and rash guards.

When the boys were younger, Will used to talk about 2 vacations ALL THE TIME: The Great Barrier Reef and Atlantis.  The cost and flight length of a trip to Australia were prohibitive, but we wanted to make Atlantis happen.  We went as a family. We pet the sea lion and the dolphin.  We played on the water…

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