A Lazy Day In Tahiti Beats A Good Day At Work

Today was probably our first real “nothing to do” day since we got here – every other day has either involved travel or some sort of organized activity. It was nice to just relax and enjoy where we are. We woke up, got breakfast, and then hung out on our deck for a few hours, reading and playing cards – Jen seems to be getting very lucky at 500 Rummy in French Polynesia. We also decided that today would be a good day to enjoy having a few day drinks – “Tuesday FunDay” in Jen’s terms. We’ve been so busy that we really actually haven’t drank a lot out here, so to mix up a few vodka and island fruit juice (the REALLY good local fruit juice) helped put both of us in good spirits by lunch. Jen had “hours” of studying to do to finish up her scuba stuff – we found out that she’d have to finish her dives here to be able to go anywhere that had a good dive, so she’s doing her final technical dive tomorrow afternoon and then we both do two dives on Thursday morning. So she had to spend 90 minutes after winning at cards reading the last chapter and a half and figuring out dive charts, while sipping a vodka and fruit juice on the balcony of the overwater bungalow in the Bora Bora lagoon. Tough day… ::Jen butting in:: it was actually about 3 hours of studying – but I can’t complain that much! :)

After swimming in the lagoon and taking pictures of ourselves in the water and from the see-through coffee table in our bungalow (and T.J. using the 2nd level railing as a high dive), we wandered over to the pool to get a bite to eat and lounge over there. It was nice to just relax all day. Went to the happy hour and got a couple of drinks, then headed back here to get ready for dinner at the St. Regis.

The boat from the St. Regis picked us up at 8pm, and it was a great ride – we were in a very nicely done pontoon boat, that let us watch the stars as we headed to the St. Regis. The place was beautiful – even though we only saw a little bit of it, everything was five star. We had a drink at a table that was on a porch next to the concrete dock/footer and then moved to our table for dinner, which was the only table between our first table and the water. It was a great sight – the water was lit right there, and the fish were swimming all over the place. The food was REALLY good – we had lamb and grouper, and both were prepared and seasoned outstanding. Jean George or whoever the guy is really knows what he’s doing.