Day 19, Monday, January 22, 2018- Papeete, Tahiti

It certainly feels like we are in French Polynesia. The weather has been glorious, today sunny and about 86* F, it felt much hotter, I think because of the humidity. 

We had an all day tour, 71/2 hours around the island. We visited the home of James Norman Hall, the co author of Mutiny on the Bounty and many more novels. His home reminded me of the home of, Hemingway, In Key West. 

Then we saw the Venus Light House, so named because Captain Cook used that spot to determine where they were using Venus, to position the island. 

Now believe it or not, Tahiti is big, very pretty, but very much like Hawaii, and Hawaii is a lot closer. The people that were entertainers leaving the ship in Papeete to fly home to Hawaii, were going to have to fly to LA, and then fly to Hawaii, 20 hours ugh. As there are only a few fights to Hawaii a week! 

Next we had a stop for lunch, at a lovely restaurant that served us a traditional meal with lots of coconut in the foods, not for GD Sally. Or anyone else that can’t eat coconut, but we liked it a lot. 

 

Then we went to the Museum of Tahiti and the island, that, had we visited it earlier in the day we would have enjoyed it more. Next  stop was the botanical garden, by then it was too hot and muggy, to even venture in. Any gift shopping in Tahiti is very expensive, we did buy some vanilla beans,, but at 30$ for about 6 oz!  Like I said expensive!

We returned to the ship and it truly was coming home, nice, cool AC. Showered and got ready for an early diner, so we could see the special Tahitian dance show, that was only going to be on once! It was fantastic, but we were exhausted after watching those kids dance! 

I have tried to send photos, and they won’t go out.