Day
24 Pipette, Tahiti
Today
we arrived in Pipette, Tahiti. We were greeted by people dressed in their
native ware playing for us and while two women handed us their native flowers
that smell similar to the jasmine I had growing in our Mamie Maude home. When I
was young my father had a 16 m projector someone had given him and he had a
documentary movie about Tahiti. I had
always wanted to go there we were fortunate to sail there in 2008 when we did ½
of the WC and was on for 55 days then.
Since we had done the South Pacific extensively back in 08 we decided we
would not book a tour but do it on our own.
There are many islands that make up Tahiti and the most beautiful is
Moore, which we were not stopping at.
Pipette is a city so it is not as pretty as some of the other islands. Since the Internet on the ship has been
almost non existent (location is their reason) we walked around and went in
search of an Internet café. I needed to
do some banking and pay my Amex bill. We
went to their central market and upstairs is a café with Internet. Well ½ of the ship were there and when I
tried to do my banking I was told by Chase it was not secure Wi-Fi so I could
not get in. We headed back to the
tourism building and they sent me to an Internet café. $6 for an hour. It was fast and secure did my banking and
paid some bills and then before you knew it lots of people found it. I did get to download a few books as I was
almost out of books! It was taking forever
to try to update some things and it was hot and Bill was hungry so we said the
heck with it and headed back to the ship.
We had an early dinner that night as it was a big birthday for Ilene and
she and Andy had planned a special birthday dinner in Silk road for 8 of us so
we headed back to the ship and relaxed before dinner. Ilene had gone to the market and had them make
her a beautiful flower crown. We had a
great time at dinner, and she had the best dessert. It is called a French wedding cake. It was cream puffs filled with either vanilla
or chocolate cream and drizzled with candy (think candy apples only clear) it
was fabulous!
Another
great day on this fabulous adventure!
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