Our Stay in the Cook Islands...

Took us a few days to adjust to Island Life after LA... But we have adapted to the island lifestyle, just about!!!

We have done... A visit to the Cultural Village, the island market, the local church to hear the singing and have managed to get up early enough to see the Sunrise!!

On Monday we flew to Aitutaki, one of the smaller islands, which made Raro seem quite cosmopolitan in comparison. It is only 15km around the island and only has 1700 people who live on the island!! We had a day exploring the island on scooters, which was great fun. Although Holly Hat had a slight mishap and thought she would make her mark by falling off her scooter! Not entirely sure how she managed it and looking back we can laugh about it - was quite entertaining!!!! We experienced our first official island night at a place called, Samade on the Beach - we tasted the local cuisine (which I'm still not too keen on but slowly adapting) and saw the locals dancing with costumes. The best bit was our lagoon cruise, which allowed us to do some snorkelling and visit One Foot Island and Honeymoon island. We even had the chance to cruise past the islands where they film both Shipwrecked and Survivor. It was great fun and we are now looking forward to doing some more snorkelling in both Fiji and Oz...

We are heading off to Fiji today, well technically leave at 1am in the early hours of Sat... Not looking forward to the fact that we will be loosing a day, especially because it is a Saturday!! Think we are both excited for a change of scenery - different palm trees!!! Not looking forward to the fact that it may rain for the next 7days as it is currently the raining season and from what we have heard the weather hasn't been great lately!!

Sending lots of love to everyone,
Love Hol and Nic xx

P.S. we are still in the stage of trying to get some pics on here but it's kinda tricky since we have gone back to basics. Hopefully once we have progressed onwards from Fiji and arrive in Auckland we will have the opportunity to sort something out (fingers crossed)!!!

xx

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