Happy New Year

 

Our Boat Anchored in Cooks Bay on Moorea

Happy New Year everyone!  We have had a pretty busy last few weeks.  Dave, Kevin’s dad, arrived on the 27th for a two week vacation!  It has been fun having him with us we took him into the market and also to the Te Fare Manaha Museum, a museum on the history of Tahiti and her islands.  It told if the history of the islands from when it was settled to present day.  For my birthday Dave and Jeanie (Kevin’s mom) got me, well and Kevin, a hotel room for the night.  A real bed and a stand-up shower!  I seriously took like 4 showers in a less than 24 hour period. It went something like Check in, shower, go to museum, shower, go to dinner, shower, wake up, shower, breakfast, shower, time to check-out, shower again.  It was quite possibly the most wonderful shower I’ve ever taken.  Dave also took us out to a nice dinner at the restaurant at the hotel.  The food there was superb but Kevin had this mahi mahi with a vanilla sauce.  I really don’t like fish all that much but this sauce that they cook the fish in was heavenly. 

The day before new years eve we pulled anchor and headed for Moorea and anchored in Cooks Bay.  The trip took about 4 hours and was pretty good sailing.  The seas were a little rough but we had the perfect amount of wind and a cloudless sky!  We successfully managed to find the only bar in Cooks Bay and anchor right in front of it!  Worked quite perfectly.  I just so happened that in this anchorage there were three other boats already tied up.  Two were Americans and the other from England. It didn’t take long to make introductions and head to the local pizza joint for some beer, pizza and good conversation!  We ended up spending new years with the group on one of the other boats as well. (Kevin wasn’t all that excited for me to see this boat because it had things like refrigeration, and a freezer and a shower… I think he thought I would either jump ship or demand a bigger boat.  Thankfully neither happened, but it was a nice boat!)  It was a great way to spend new years with some new friends! 

Our plan after Moorea is to head to the leeward islands starting with Huahine!