Day 5-Saturday
Our laziest yet. Besides breakfast, we hardly left the room.
Our day in a nutshell, in no particular
order…
Eat
Snorkel
Swim
Drink
Read
Farkle
Read
Jump off dock
Farkle
Finish Book #1
Food
Start Book #2
Beer
Jump off dock
Feed fish
Wine
Read
Crème brulee
Sleep
the shower on our dock...the clouds tend to come in the late afternoon, and the water glows green
a waterfall on our hotel grounds
We played a few games of farkle over the last few days—John LITERALLY has yet to lose a game, and I have yet to win a game. I don’t mind losing though, I just look at the waves and drink my wine and all is well with the world…
Day 6-Sunday
Big plans to explore the island today! Going to rent a scooter and check out the island today and hopefully swim with the dolphins on the other side of the island.
…found out everything on the island is closed on Sunday. Welp! Maybe tomorrow.
Instead, we read, snorkeled, read, ate, went on a walk, drank, played farkle, and got the best massage of our lives before getting ready for the American dinner buffet—which was AMAZING.
I still have not won at farkle. Sometimes I’ll lead the whole game and come close and then John randomly rolls like 3,000 points to win it all at the end. I’ve lost countless bets, but it’s okay…he likes winning more than I do anyway. J
Crème brulee and a bottle of wine to end each day seems to be the trend…
our dock
A road trip around the island. I'm sitting at the computer exhausted, so I will upload the photos and give you a glimpse and update soon....
The first stop on our road trip around the island...Our hotel is in the lagoon behind us. The Sofitel Ia Ora.
Thank goodness for the Camera Plus app. The timer saved our lives. Can you believe, even with reminders from both of our mothers...we forgot our cameras? We used our iPhones for photos the entire trip!
The juice factory where we stopped to try a variety of local juices and fruit liquors.
Finally made it to Belvedere--the viewpoint from which one can see both Cooks & Oponohu Bays at the same time...it's quite the drive up there but it's unlike anything I've ever seen and the pictures don't do it justice (more to come)
It's windy here...especially in the afternoon.
a pony...tied in the valley of the pineapple fields.
Fields of Ananas (pineapples)
Cooks Bay
After our long trip around the island by car, we made reservations at a French restaurant called Moorea Beach Cafe. It was started several months ago by a French restauranteur and his wife. His wife provides transportation from the surrounding hotels to the restaurant (she studied at FIDM in LA!)
The restaurant was an old converted house directly along the shore of Maharepa (the village). It was the most beautiful sunset...which is why it was surprising that we were LITERALLY the only ones dining--I can say we got plenty of attention and great service! :) Tahitians and French dine much later than Americans. We arrived at 5 to watch the sunset and when we left at 6:30, we were still the only table. The food was AMAZING. We tried the duck foie gras (not our taste...it was fed to the fishes).
The food was amazing, the view was unparalleled, and the company was incredibly good looking :)
Love you all.
Ash
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