Long story short, my incredible cousin, Susie-Belle Owens sent me a text a few months ago asking if I was free the first week of June for a Tahiti vacation....Being 1st April, I naturally thought it was a cruel joke....after much deliberation and reassurance from her son, Matt, as well, I soon realised this was indeed NOT a joke, and I was set to go on an adventure to Tahiti!!!
Fast forward to: 4th June.....
.......After a trip to from my apartment to the hotel in rush hour, a bus from the hotel to LAX, numerous security checkpoints, a walk to the gate, another bus from the gate to another terminal, a short walk across the tarmac.... we were on the airplane to Tahiti!!
The plane ride was pretty much as wonderful as they come.... We were given a menu, movie list, free alocohol, pillows, a blanket and a little goodie bag filled with a sleeping mask, socks, earplugs, hand wipes and earphones. Matt, Susie and I watched Leap Year on our little individual televisions, ate dinner, and were generally ridiculously excited to be in the air. Susie and I kept trying to decipher the French announcements before they were announced in English... She was much better than I was....
When we finally landed in Tahiti (specifically Papeete), we flew through customs and were greeted with lei's and a bus to take us to our hotel. We are staying at the Manava Resort in Papeete.....Ridiculously gorgeous.... Sadly, the sun had already set when we arrived, but on the flip side, we flew through a gorgeous sunset!
We checked into the room and ordered dinner...Cheeseburger for Matt, Mahi mahi for Susie and Sashimi for moi! Honestly, the best sashimi I've ever had in my life. I had coconut citrus tuna tartar, pepper salmon sashimi and wasabi mustard tuna sashimi...Ah-May-Zing.
After dinner, Susie and I dipped our tootsies into the pool and chatted for a bit.... Tomorrow we have a half day here in Papeete before we catch our little puddle jumper to Bora Bora. For those addicted to Google maps, like myself, we are specifically staying on a tiny island part of the Bora Bora atoll called Tevairoa at the Pearl Beach Resort (which actually shows up on Google maps!) We'll take a 45 minute flight from Paeete to Faanui (on Bora Bora) and then a boat to the resort, where we are living in an overwater bungalow for a week!!!
Stoked.
The weather here is fabulous (hence the title...) and reminds me so much of the Florida I love and miss....
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Tell Matt i say hi :)
-Matt's favorite person in the universe
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