Ok. I am sitting here at LAX for the next couple of hours, sitting in between a group of random older people as they talk back and forth through me. I could move, but I have so much stuff laid out over my lap that I just don’t want to, so I guess I get to listen to their conversation about where they will go and eat tonight. Awesome.
Anyway, I have not had internet access for the last couple of days and lots of interesting things have happened. Here are some highlights:
1. I don’t know what happened between the first time I stayed at the hotel on Tahiti and the second time, but I somehow managed to get an enormous upgrade to a panorama room with a great view of the sand pool and water. I wish I was able to spend one more night there!
2. Good damn thing that I don’t have to pay for food here. The fairly uninspiring breakfast buffet at the hotel was about $32!!!
3. Visited a random assortment of stuff on Monday on Tahiti including a traditional marae, an entomology lab, and a very good Chinese restaurant.
4. Went on the most hilarious picnic. We loaded up a cooler with lots of good food and took a small zodiac out into the middle of the lagoon to a sandbar that, at its shallowest, was up to my mid-thigh. We were all laughing at the incredibly random picnic, gathered around the zodiac making sandwiches and wading around in the middle of the ocean. We had snorkeling gear and lots of fish joined us for the picnic. We could swim to where the sand bar quickly drops off into nothing but darkness. A spear-fisherman came out to join us and we watched him fish for a while. He could stay underwater for an amazing amount of time. Anyway, because we were picnicking in the water, I have no pictures – I really wish I did, because I’m sure we looked pretty funny, standing in the middle of the ocean eating donuts.
5. One of the local people I was traveling with is from a family of vanilla farmers. She gave me a small packet of vanilla beans, which smelled incredible. She was wonderfully nice -- in addition to the vanilla, she gave me a coffee cup from Moorea, and her colleague gave me a gecko decorated pareo because I made a little baby gecko friend one night during the trip. I was fine with it crawling on me, but I was worried that if it got into my hair, I would end up unintentionally smuggling it into the US.
6. I had the best dinner at a little French restaurant with a Texan who also has parrots and two Australians who know a lot about parrots! We spent about an hour talking about birdies. Awesome.
7. Although it was a wonderful couple of days with lots of time in the water, good food and good drink, I am happy to be on my way home.
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