As much as I love the beach, I'm not the type of person that can lay around the beach all day for a week. In the past, my idea of a beach vacation has always been staying at a hotel that is on the beach and laying by the pool that faces the beach. Infinity pools are a plus! But even hanging out by the pool leaves me restless. Last year when we went to Costa Rica, we did about 1.5 days at the pool and then the rest of the week was spent doing other activities and eating.
After being in Bora Bora for 6 days, I have now experienced what people do on vacation: RELAX! We are not worried about the date/time and we have no daily agenda except eating. I've also been getting a lot of sleep. At home, a good night's sleep for me is 6 hours and I've been getting 8-10 hours here. I feel well rested and refreshed each morning. Our daily routine here is simple....sleep in, big fat brunch, lay out on our deck, jump off our deck and snorkel, snacks, head to the lagoon and snorkel again, go to the pool, maybe workout, shower, dinner, and then go to bed. I'm usually in bed by 10 pm at the latest. Yesterday I woke up in the middle of the night and Steve was missing. I freaked out and started screaming for him because I was worried Jacque Cousteau went for a night swim. He had been talking about it earlier in the evening and I didn't think it was a good idea because the currents were really strong. He was curious to see if different types of fish came out at night. Anyways, I started to panic and continued to scream for Steve. Then Steve runs in from the other room and says "What's wrong!?!? Did you have a bad dream???" I told him I thought he was out swimming and I had these crazy flashbacks of recent honeymooners in the news when one spouse is reported missing in a drowning accident. He told me he was researching for his Fantasy Football team. I called him away from his Mock Draft.
Asian Steve is still in full force here. In fact, he is now recruiting me to be his apprentice. The other day he was snorkeling. I was just laying around in the lounge chair as I saw his head pop out of the water for air. He looks around from the middle of the lagoon and then screams over to me, "Nancy, go help that couple on the bridge!! They are trying to take a picture using the self-timer on the camera!" You would have thought someone was getting mugged by his clear cut instructions to "HELP THAT COUPLE ON THE BRIDGE". So I was a good apprentice and walked over to the bridge to take a picture for them. The couple was very happy and appreciative. Asian Steve was happy about our good deed and went back in the water to reunite with his fish.
Today we are heading out to swim with the sharks and manta rays and then have a picnic on the other side of the island. Steve is ecstatic about the sharks and manta rays. My enthusiasm came when I was reading the picnic menu..."LOOK! Steak, Lobster, Shrimp, Crab, Chicken!! I can eat your lobster, Shrimp, and Crab since your'e allergic, Steve. YUM YUM!!!!!!" We head back home tomorrow night.....
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