Our Air Tahiti Nui flight left just after midnight Friday - we sank into our pretty turquoise and cornflower blue seats (some of us too excited to sleep, others exhausted!). The flight attendants passed out tiny white (heady) flowers and red (French) wine as our eight hour journey commenced. How thrilling to think Saturday morning we will wake up to a new day in Tahiti!
We arrived in time for sun rise ... unable to check in so early we raided our luggage for swimsuits - half of us swam (me of course) the other ate. I barely dozed in the lounge chair: sandwiched by the cool tinkling of the pool and a fringe of palms and plumeria, I listened to the morning chorus of birds - squawking, singing, clucking, mewing, screeching - slowly fade and the hotel come alive with the sounds of people: flip flopping by, dragging lounge chairs, splashing, playing, the clink of plates and glasses. Welcome day one, in Tahiti!
[photo: a bit grotty, we drag ourselves into the Sofitel Maeva Beah at 5:30AM]
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