Electric Blue

Room 406 (NP)

We’re grouped as a number with the hundreds of other honeymooners at the resort, but we like to think of ourselves as castaways on a deserted island…Wilson!!!! What I learned on Day 2 is that I can’t scoop 7 hours of sun on my body and not get burned. The shoulders and white chicken thighs are a little tender today. Glad we brought the aloe. Thank God it’s a little overcast today, perfect day for some snorkeling!

Here are some tips for liked-minded budget minded travelers as we attempt to stretch this honeymoon into a four-month journey. On day 2 we learned that a wastebasket makes for a great make shift fridge if you keep it filled full of ice everyday that the hotel provides for free. Yesterday, we went to the local market to get some olives, local brew, and cheese. Our make shift fridge keeps it all at the perfect temperature. With the combination of these three items and a French baguette, we had a nice little lunch for two. Oh, we can’t forget to mention we tried Lays chicken and thyme potato chips. Interesting -- is the word that probably bests describes them.  

Day 3 budget technique: we (actually I) made the most of the free hotel breakfast. They had Japanese just-add-hot-water soup packets at breakfast this morning. I brought these with a coffee cup full of rice back to the room to save for lunch…as Melissa cringed in embarrassment. Hey, even a pre-made packet of soup tastes better when eaten with the one you love.

Electric Blue (MP)

We’ve settled in nicely here.  It’s day 3 and we’ve slept more in these past few days than we have in the past month.  The best part is that we don’t care.  Usually when you are on vacation, you do care, because you want to see and do as much as possible.  Sleeping the day away makes you feel like you are wasting time.  But we have time…and I’m still pinching myself to make sure this is all real. 

We are in a little bungalow over the water with a view that’s endless and spectacular.  We can dive in the water from our balcony and see marine life from the floor of the living room.  How did we pick our honeymoon spot, you ask?  A picture.  We saw a picture online and couldn’t stop thinking about how amazing it would be to be in an over the water bungalow and then researched this until we found the right one.  Interesting enough, there are only a handful of places in the world where you can entertain this idea.    And they are not overrated.  They are amazing in all the ways one could imagine if you are looking to do nothing but relax and see 360° of beauty.

Since it’s French Polynesia, everything is French.  There is nothing short of sexy when it comes to French things.  The language, fare, music, wine….Np and I listen to French for Travelers so we can pretend we fit right in.   Thanks to Angie and her love of French, I had a few words down pat already.   The weather is a balmy 85° at all times and in the evenings, it’s that amazing feeling where you can’t feel any kind of temperate against your skin.  I love that.  The food here has been incredible, particularly the fish, so we’re sticking to that.   We get free breakfast, usually picnic on fun French things like cheese and brioche for lunch, and then head out for dinner either here at the resort or in town.  It’s pricey here, so Np likes to steal food from breakfast to bring back to the room.  Today it was rice in a coffee mug!  Ah, married life.  It’s all about to get more interesting I reckon. ;)

Oh, and the fish here are electric blue.

(Written from the island of Moorea, in Tahiti/French Polynesia)