Air Tahiti Nui is a fabulous airline, 1st thing they present you with is a flower, to put in your hair over your ear I have since figured out, since many of the locals wear a real flower in their hair. They smell soooooo good, I smelled it all the way to Tahiti!
Aren't they sweet?
Then you get a menu to choose what you want for dinner...wow, there's an idea USA airlines!
When we finally arrived in Tahiti, 8 hours later...we were hot and tired! We waited in line with everyone else on the plane to go thru customs, so hot, no air in the airport. We walked out and up on the hill we could see our hotel, so decided to hoof it! It was truly on top of a very steep hill, and there were no elevators, so had to cart our suitcases up multiple stairways...sweating, hot, wet by this point...room was sparse, hot, but we finally figured out how to put the air on...slept 5 hours and then back down the hill, stairs we walked to make our 7:15 flight to Bora Bora!
Once on board it was only a 45 minute flight, and oh so beautiful! It was a small prop jet, but quite a smooth ride! Once in the airport, your hotel greets you with beautiful lays and you board a boat for your hotel, in our case, the Hilton. We met two other couples on the boat, one couple had flown on our flight from LA and the other had been in Tahiti for several days. They were all American [Chicago, LA], one celebrating 10 years of marriage, one newlyweds, they were married on Saturday, our 35th anniversary. We keep running into them here, so it's been fun to kinda know someone...especially since they speak English!
They greeted us with fresh pineapple juice and cool cloths, and then they had us go to breakfast and then gave us a tour of the Hilton in a golf cart (she drove crazy fast, thought she was going to dump us!) and then on to our room. We lazed out today, rested, went to the beach, went snorkeling...totally awesome day!
This is truly paradise!!!
And yes, that was a bottle of wine, that I am sitting here on the deck enjoying while I write this!
4 comments:
I'm so happy you posted!! What a way to welcome you there w the flowers and everything! Sounds like you will have a great time.:)
P.S. it's 530 am here and everyone us sleeping but me. I was reading your post and laughing! U guys are so cute :)
OH I'm SO HAPPY you have internet access! What a great surprise this morning!!! It's all so beautiful!!!
I laughed when I saw the rose petals all over...did you feel like you were on the Bachelorette? ;)
It looks absolutely gorgeous...can't wait to read and see more and more. I love your 'little' hut! WoW! It truly does look like paradise!
Beautiful! You guys are too cute... have a wonderful time!!! xoxo
WOW beautiful... and yes, i missed this. love the pics keep them coming! now i wanna go... !!!
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