It's just not FAIR. Every place we like we seem to leave to suddenly. The thing is I like it all! The hardest part of leaving Rarotonga is that I know I'm not going to be in any temperature over 20 degrees for the next year. Which doesn't sound very appealing! Rarotonga is hot, perhaps a bit humid, but it has lovely seas, because the island is completely surrounded by a reef. This means that between the island and the reef is the flattest, warmest, clearest water for swimming in in the whole of the Pacific ocean (I reckon anyway). [View Full Entry]

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Olivers bit: My wobbly tooth is so wobbly, that if we were flying, and we put our window open at 9000 miles an hour, it would fall out. It is my first wobbly tooth. Every time I go past mum she wants to wobble it. Hannah thinks there is a lucky tooth fairy with lots of hair, and I don't know if she can fly to Rarotonga. We met somebody called Conrad, he was 6. His mum had made him a brilliant boat out of a coconut husk. Conrad was really good at catching fish, and I saw a baby sword [View Full Entry]

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Photos of our wedding! We will finish the blog soon - promise! [View Full Entry]

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Heisann! Me har naa tilbrakt 9 dager paa The Cook Islands som ligger midt i Stillehavet mellom USA og Australia. The Cook Islands bestaar av 15 smaa oyer, me var paa den stoerste av de, som heiter Rarotonga, som er kun 32 km rundt heile oya. Me var au paa dagstur til Aitutaki som er kjent for aa ha verdens fineste lagune. Oya Rarotonga bestaar av fjell og regnskog, med ei sandstrand som strekker seg rundt heile oya, altsaa 32 km. Det er med andre ord ikkje nokke problem aa finne seg ein oede plass der ein kan vaere for seg [View Full Entry]

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Tuesday 17th / Wednesday 18th FebruaryAfter arriving at the airport at around midnight we checked in and finally left at 1.30 a.m. (Cook Islands time) after being serenaded by a gentleman playing the ukelele in the airport terminal. We felt very sad to leave and hope we will get back here some time in the future. We had a great flight to NZ with hardly any turbulence and we all dozed most of the way before arriving in Auckland at 5.55 a.m. local time on Wednesday. Where had Tuesday gone? We only had an hour and a half of Tuesday!! After [View Full Entry]

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Final Lazy Hours in ParadiseWe woke very early to another magnificent day and wandered over for breakfast at 7.45. Afterwards we went back to our room and packed for our trip home before checking out and paying our resort bill, which was quite a bit under budget - a nice surprise! We then met Mel and played May I for ages beside the pool - Steve again was the champion! Next it was time for lunch, before swimming and lazing around the pool for the afternoon as it was very hot. We were sort of in limbo as we didn't have [View Full Entry]

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God's Own Country on His Day!We woke at 7.15 a.m. to a magnificent day - very warm and no clouds after a restful sleep. After enjoying breakfast at 7.45 we caught the church bus to Cook Islands Christian Church in Arorangi Village at 9.30. The main church building was undergoing some renovations so we had the service in the Sunday School hall. It was a great service - the youth took a lot of it and it was very challenging message and skits about choosing to go to Heaven or hell by the way we live. We were invited to a [View Full Entry]

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Valentines Day We woke around 6.30 with very sore sunburnt legs! We learnt that when you're snorkelling you MUST put sunscreen on the back of your legs and the underside of your arms! After lathering ourselves in moisturiser we headed over for breakfast at about 8.00 a.m. Afterwards Jeni checked for emails from home before meeting Mel and Steve for a bus trip to the Avarua Markets where we wandered around for ages. It was extremely humid at the markets and we all found it a bit overwhelming. While Jeni shopped for souvenirs, gifts and a bright blue tie-dye shirt Mel [View Full Entry]

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A Day in the Life of the Most Perfect 10th Anniversary Ever!! We were woken by a wake-up call at 6.00 a.m. to ensure we would be on time for the transfer to the airport for our day in Aitutaki! The weather was absolutely beautiful, especially after it had rained all day the day before, which was when we had originally wanted to go - God was certainly looking after us by making sure the tour was full for that day!!! We went for an early breakfast and then boarded the bus for this special day. At the airport we met [View Full Entry]

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Dinner on the Most Perfect 10th Anniversary Ever!!After arriving back from Aitutaki we chatted all the way to our resort to the Danish couple we had walked around One Foot Island with - they were lovely people and we wished them all the best for their journey home the next day after travelling around Australia, New Zealand and the Cook Islands for six months. When we got back to our rooms we had very welcome showers and lathered on moisturizer as both of us were VERY burnt, especially on the back of our legs, arms and faces due to being face [View Full Entry]

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