How to win an entire Bahamian town over with red bull vodka

Ahh, the Bahamas. What is there not to love? The ocean, the conch salad, the sun.... just to name a few.
And you know what makes the Bahamas even better? When it's free!

D and I love to go on FREE trips. Yes, Free. How do you go on a free trip you ask? SIMPLE! Sign up for multi million dollar home tours!

Not time shares.

Actual multi million dollar property tours all around the world!  Happens to be, they will fly you there in a private JET!!

(we have done this 2 times, this is time #1)

Let's go back to how it all happened:
David calls me and invites me to go to the Yacht show in Miami Beach. Sure! Sounds like fun, I can pretend to be a multi millionaire and be yacht searching.We go to the yacht show, we drink wine, eat caviar, munch on fine cheeses, and top it all off with some Bacardi. As we are walking around, we see a BEAUTIFUL yacht for sale, we walk in and take a tour. Inside the yacht, there is a sales person, getting people to sign up to go see multi million dollar homes in the Bahamas-- but you must meet a criteria:

- household income must be over: $75,000 (D and I combined.. CHECK)
- Must be married (we lied and said we were engaged)
- Must have lived together for over 3 years (we lied again)
- Must pay $100 in port taxes (CHECK)

 They harass D for a good week, asking him what days we are available to fly (this is a 3 day trip, all paid for by them). We give them 4 weekend dates -- They agree to fly us on one of the dates, and we are all set!

Thank you unknown company, we are off to the Bahamas!

We leave on a Friday morning out of West Palm Beach, David gives me a fake diamond to wear on my left hand (remember we are engaged)

on the jet. see you soon Bahamas!

We arrive on a small Island, where immigration is in a hut. It is BEAUTIFUL. When we get to the property we are greeted by lovely staff and set up in a beautiful villa, with views to the garden and the pool.

 us.

villa.

huge room, with kitchen and ample living space.

As soon as we drop off our bags, we are told to go on the property tour (the one they are trying to sell David)

We agree, it's early, we might as well get it out of the way. We arrive to the site of the soon to be multi million dollar home.

This is it. all gravel. and a man made lake. WTF? We look interested, ask many questions, walk around, and tell Chris (the guy showing us the non property) that we will "think about it" but that we have a property in Panama that we really like, and is already built and is bigger than the one they are building here-- this is all a lie. We are poor. We have no property anywhere.

:/

The tour is over, and we don't have to lie anymore. We spend the rest of our trip buying champagne bottles and tanning at the beach. Except one night, where we had the GREAT idea to go into town and go to a locals bar.

We get there and realize... we are not locals. CLEARLY. As soon as we walk in, people start asking us MANY questions, especially where we are staying, since we have traveled over 30 min in a taxi to get to this small, unknown bar.

I look beyond the counter and notice a red bull fridge and ask if they have vodka. They say yes, they have never heard of this drink!

I pull out $80.00, and BUY THE ENTIRE BAR drinks.

We are now every one's best friend!

The music gets louder, the drinks get poured, the dancing starts! We spend the rest of our night at this bar, making friends, and buying all the Bahamians red bull vodka. About $150 dollars later, we are the town hero's.

The next morning I could not believe what i had done. But, I will say, it was the best time EVER.

The next day, we made more friends at the beach, and invited them all to drinks (some were under age, but who cares? it's the Bahamas!)

Like all good things, this trip too had to come to an end.

But, I suggest, if you ever get offered the chance to go see multi million dollar homes for free - take it!